Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover.

Noam Chomsky

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

Noam Chomsky

Legalizing marijuana would make a lot of sense, I don't think there's a single case of marijuana overdose on record and tens of millions of users. It's much less dangerous than alcohol, for example.

Noam Chomsky

It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense.

Mike Oldfield

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

Mike Myers

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

Joey Ramone

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

Joe Murray

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Meno

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

Joe Namath

I've always said I'm going to get married only once.

Jodi Picoult

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

Jodi Picoult

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

Jodi Picoult

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

Jodi Picoult

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

Jodi Picoult

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Jodi Picoult

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

Jodi Picoult

No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.

Jodi Picoult

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

Jodi Picoult

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Jodi Picoult

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

Jodi Picoult

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

Jodi Picoult

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

John Green

The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.

John Green

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

John Green

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

John Green

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

Patti Smith

I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

Patti Smith

I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

Pat Robertson

The Katrina matter was terrible.

P. D. James

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

P. D. James

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.