Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Neil Smith

Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.

L. Neil Smith

Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.

Paul Mooney

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

Paul Brunton

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

Patti Davis

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

Oscar Wilde

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Oscar Wilde

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure

Oscar Wilde

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

Oscar Wilde

Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

Oscar Wilde

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Oscar Wilde

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

Mae West

I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.

Madonna Ciccone

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

Madonna Ciccone

Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.

Madonna Ciccone

Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.

Macaulay Culkin

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

Lucinda Williams

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

Liv Tyler

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

Margaret Mahy

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

Michael Jackson

So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.

Michael Crichton

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

Mia Farrow

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.

Mark Twain

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

Marion Barry

I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.

Nikki Sanderson

I don't understand people who won't sign autographs or have pictures taken.

Nicole Scherzinger

It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.

Nicole Krauss

He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.

Nicola Formichetti

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

Nico Tortorella

Here's my take on Instagram: It's so ridiculous that people can go on and play characters, and none of it [should be] taken too seriously.

Nico Tortorella

If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.