Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Ozick

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Cyril Connolly

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Cyril Connolly

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

Cyril Connolly

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

Cyril Connolly

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

Colonel Sanders

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

Colonel Sanders

I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Columbus Short

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

Daphne Zuniga

How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper."

Daphne Zuniga

Where the terror is, is where you must go.

Daphne Guinness

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

Daphne Guinness

Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

Daphne Guinness

When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.

Daphne Guinness

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

Daphne Guinness

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.

Daphne Guinness

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

Dar Williams

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

Dar Williams

I think music is another language.

Dar Williams

...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

Dar Williams

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

Dar Williams

Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

Dar Williams

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Daniela Ruah

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

Danielle Brooks

I don't have to accept what you think I should look like and I do not accept what you think I should look like.

Danielle Fishel

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

Danielle Fishel

I think Angelina Jolie always looks amazing.

Danielle Fishel

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

Danielle Fishel

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

Daniela Bobadilla

I can't imagine saying the same joke for three hours. I don't know how that would work.

Daniela Hantuchova

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

Daniela Hantuchova

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

Danielle Panabaker

I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.