Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claes Oldenburg

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

Amy Sedaris

I did shoplift but I didn't get in trouble for it. I shoplifted a lot when I was little. Candy. I would steal candy.

Amory Lovins

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Anthony Anderson

I provide a little comic relief.

Anthony Burgess

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Anthony Bourdain

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Andre Gide

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

Angela Bassett

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

Anais Nin

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

Andrew Young

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

Chuck Palahniuk

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

Chuck Palahniuk

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.

Chuck Palahniuk

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

Chuck Close

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

Andrew Carnegie

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Anthony de Mello

Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.

Angela Lansbury

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

Andy Lally

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

Anthony Horowitz

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

Alison Bechdel

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

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.

Aesop

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

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.

Richard G. Scott

A knowledge of truth is of little value unless lived in full measure.

Brian Wilson

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Brian Eno

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

Brent Weeks

You have to be a little bad to make history.

Boris Kodjoe

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

Billy Crystal

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.