Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

As we watched Judge Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, all of the commentators said the same thing: 'One of these people in the room is lying.' Do you believe that? You've got two lawyers and 14 senators in the room, and only one of them is lying?

Jay Leno

Scientists believe that monkeys can be taught to think, lie and even play politics within their community. If we can just teach them to cheat on their wives we can save millions on congressional salaries.

Jay Leno

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.

Jay Leno

A lot of Congressmen yesterday were upset when Kenneth Lay took the Fifth. Lay said it wasn't his fault. He had planned on testifying, but when Jeffrey Skilling testified, he took all the really good lies.

Jay Carney

When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.

Carly Fiorina

I will force Hillary Clinton to fight on the grounds of her lies and lack of trustworthiness, whether that's about e-mails, and servers and Benghazi.

Christopher Hitchens

I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is more likely... that the whole natural order is suspended or that a Jewish minx should tell a lie?

Cassandra Clare

Tact is just lying for adults.

Muriel Spark

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined ...

Muriel Spark

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Mika Brzezinski

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

Mickey Rourke

Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.

Kristine Lilly

You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through.

Kirk Franklin

Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The thing that makes old people who’ve been together for years finish each other’s sentences. Don’t you wish mama had told you when you were young that, when you lie with someone, you lie not just with her body but also with her soul? And whatever condition the other person’s soul is in, you are guaranteed to take a piece with you—whether you want to or not. Instead of being amazed at her booty, you should have focused on her mind.

Kirk Douglas

The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.

Kim Wilde

You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules

Kim Stanley Robinson

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

Kim Cattrall

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

Kevin Drum

Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.

Kevin Costner

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.

Kenneth Rexroth

Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.

Kenneth Rexroth

I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

Ken Jeong

I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

Kathleen Norris

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

Karl Marx

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

Julia Gillard

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

Julia Cameron

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

Julia Cameron

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Joseph Joubert

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.

Kristin Hannah

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

Knute Nelson

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.