Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Benjamin Bratt

No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

Benjamin Cardozo

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Benjamin Cardozo

Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.

Benjamin Cardozo

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

Benjamin Disraeli

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

Ben E. King

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Candy Crowley

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

Cara Castronuova

A Fighter gets up... No matter what.

Carine Roitfeld

Makeup can help you capture a moment.

Cam Gigandet

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

Cameron Crowe

RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

Cameron Diaz

You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead.

C. S. Lewis

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

C. S. Lewis

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

C. S. Lewis

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

C. S. Lewis

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

C. S. Lewis

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

C. S. Lewis

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

C. S. Lewis

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Michelle Yeoh

We've talked about it. I've been married before. We'll stay together as long as we're happy. We don't necessarily have to get married. Marriage is a bonus. Being together is enough. I also like to be independent.

Burt Ward

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

Buster Keaton

I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.

Burt Reynolds

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

Bryant H. McGill

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

Bryant H. McGill

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.