Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Nicholas

I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.

Bahman Ghobadi

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

Charles Bukowski

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Edward Abbey

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Aristotle

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement--each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

Ed Parker

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

Elinor Ostrom

Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels

Dixie Lee Ray

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..

David Nicholls

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Alexander Pushkin

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Adam Clarke

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

Abraham Lincoln

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

Ann Brashares

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

Alan Cohen

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Alan Cohen

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

Adam West

When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species.

Adam Levine

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world,

Ada Lovelace

One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He who knows how to be content will be content with little.

Alberto Giacometti

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

Aldous Huxley

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

A. J. P. Taylor

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

A. J. Jacobs

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

Abbie Cornish

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

Agatha Christie

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

Agatha Christie

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Adrian Rogers

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

Jane Austen

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

Jamie Lee Curtis

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

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.

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.