Famous Quotes & Sayings

Libba Bray

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

Friedrich Schiller

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

George Farquhar

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

Johnny Winter

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with

Lu Xun

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dazed, Nick nodded, then looked to Caleb. “I’m such an effing idiot.” “We knew that,” he said drily. “We definitely didn’t have to throw you into a coma for that little-known nugget.

Nicolas Chamfort

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

Nora Ephron

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.

Nora Roberts

Life has very little even ground.

Nicole Ari Parker

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.

Montel Williams

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

Miranda July

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

Mignon McLaughlin

Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.

Mignon McLaughlin

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough..

John Wooden

Big things are accomplished when we master the little things.

John Wooden

One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.

John Wooden

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

John Ruskin

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

John Ruskin

I know well that happiness is in little things.

Eric Hoffer

There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

Philip Sidney

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

Penny Pritzker

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

Marlon Brando

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

Maria Sharapova

When you are young, you are a little naive.

May Sarton

About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

Maurice Blanchot

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

Sallust

Enough words, little wisdom. [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]

Sallust

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible

S. I. Hayakawa

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Roland Joffe

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

Susan Orlean

If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?

Susan Estrich

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.