Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fowles

Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.

John Flanagan

Very impressive. Where did you learn that?" Made it up just now.

John F. Kennedy

The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat to the United States. . . . This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base - by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass-destruction - constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. . . .

John F. Kennedy

Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.

John F. Kennedy

I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from Washington without my express permission are the members of the Marine Corps Band. Those are the only forces I have. I want it announced that we propose to hold the White House against all odds at least for some time to come.

Jonathan Lethem

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

Jonah Peretti

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Jonah Hill

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

Jonah Goldberg

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

Jon Stewart

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.

Jon Stewart

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?

Jon Stewart

I don't think marijuana should be illegal.

Jon Stewart

If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?

Jon Stewart

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

Jon Pertwee

Courage isn’t just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It’s being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

Jon Miller

When you use the term 'cost per lead' you make marketing a cost center. Instead say 'investment per lead.'

Jon Miller

We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.

Joyce Carol Oates

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.

Kate Winslet

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

Paolo Bacigalupi

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

Paramahansa Yogananda

In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good.

God has made no one absolute.

Ovid

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

Ovid

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Ovid

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

Ovid

Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

Ovid

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

P. C. Cast

Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.

P. C. Cast

No matter what else, we have love. Always love.

Paul McCartney

I can't manage without homeopathy.