Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrian Rogers

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

Vint Cerf

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

Vera Farmiga

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Never thought that 'body slam' would become a literal phrase in politics.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Frank Darabont

Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature.

Jane Austen

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Jane Austen

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Jane Austen

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

Jared Diamond

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

Janet Jackson

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

Lorde

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

Scott Robinson

There are some people who get literally sick after 15 minutes.

Samuel Butler

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.

Paul Tagliabue

I don't think we'll be in litigation or that the union will decertify. But we are not making progress.

Ben Fountain

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

Ben Edlund

And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.

Carl Sandburg

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Carl Sandburg

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

Carl Sandburg

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Bryant H. McGill

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Bryant H. McGill

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Bryant H. McGill

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Catherine Opie

I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.

Carl Van Vechten

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

Carl Zimmer

Everybody can digest milk when they're little.

Alan Furst

I read very little contemporary anything.

Alain de Botton

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.