Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

Honore de Balzac

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

Honore de Balzac

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

Honore de Balzac

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Honore de Balzac

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

Ice T

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

Ice T

When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

Ice T

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

Ice Cube

I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music.

He called Tiffany a liar, he called her parents a liar.

Neil Kinnock

He addressed a grown-up party in a grown-up way. It's not going to repair anyone's gastric ulcer, but at least they know where he stands.

Francis Quarles

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Hugh Hefner

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

Hugh Hefner

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

Hugh Jackman

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.

Hugh Jackman

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

Hugh Jackman

I always felt love from both my parents.

Hugh Jackman

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Horace Mann

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Tony Allen

If he doesn't have anything to hide, why did he pardon them now before the trial?

If he (Jeremiah) can't be ready for a tournament like this with the practice partners he's had, he'll never be ready.

I don't think that we are putting any more weight on this particular theory than we have on any others,

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.

Matthew Arnold

I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.

He's making small improvements. His parents will release his status as they see fit, but he has been making progress.

How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.

Erica Jong

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Eric Cantor

I just am a believer...that there are some things that happen for a reason...We may not be able to really discern it now...[but] given the perspective of time, I think we're going to be able to look back at this, and what seemed really bad at the time may turn out to be really good.

Eric Cantor

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

Ephraim Mirvis

The comments by the Leader of the Labour Party [Jeremy Corbyn] at the launch, however they were intended, are themselves offensive, and rather than rebuilding trust among the Jewish community, are likely to cause even greater concern.

Emily VanCamp

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.

Elsa Maxwell

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Elsa Maxwell

Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.