Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Walton

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.

Bill Watterson

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

Bill Watterson

Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

Bill Watterson

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

Bill Vaughan

There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.

Bill Vaughan

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

Bill Vaughan

Calamity was ordained for man.

Bill Vaughan

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

Bob Hoskins

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We cant express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Bob Hawke

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.

Bob Hope

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.

Bob Hope

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

Bob Hope

I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

Bob Hope

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

Bob Hope

I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.

Black Elk

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

Black Elk

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.

Bill Frist

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Bill Gates

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

Betty Grable

The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching.

Betty Dodson

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

Betty Smith

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

Betty Smith

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

Bette Midler

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

Bette Midler

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

Bette Midler

Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.

Betty Friedan

The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.

Betty Friedan

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

Betty Friedan

the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

Betty Friedan

There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.

Betty Friedan

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

Betty Friedan

Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.

Betty Friedan

Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.