Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Dee Williams

I drink, you drink. Hell, if marijuana was legal, I'd appear in a commercial for that too.

Bill Phillips

It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today?

Bill Rodgers

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

Bill Russell

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

Bill Janklow

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

Bill Kurtis

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

Bill Johnson

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

Beverly Johnson

There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

Betty White

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'

Beyonce Knowles

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

Bernard Williams

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.

Bernie Mac

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

Edward Gorey

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

Edward Hirsch

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

Edward Gibbon

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

Edith Sitwell

What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

Edith Wharton

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

Edith Wharton

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Edith Wharton

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

Edith Wharton

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

Eddie Murphy

I trip off it. You know what's interesting about the makeup is when you get up close and you know he's been working on your face, and you see where the makeup starts and it stops, and how seamless it is. You could look at it for hours.

Eddie Izzard

Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets, turn up to the gig, take the makeup off, do the show, and then put the makeup back on. It's the inverse of drag. It's not about artifice. It's about me just expressing myself. So when I'm campaigning in London for politics, I campaign with makeup on and the nails. It's just what I have on, like any woman.

Eddie Izzard

But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.

Ed Asner

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'

Ed Begley, Jr.

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

Eartha Kitt

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

David Tudor

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

David Weber

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

David Reuben

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

David Riesman

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.