Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis C. K.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

Louis C. K.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

Louis C. K.

There's nowhere I won't go. As long as it's horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.

Kurt Vonnegut

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

Kurt Vonnegut

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

John Roberts

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

John Roberts

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

Mark Cuban

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

Mark Cuban

I think political people are afraid of me.

Mark Cuban

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

Mark Cuban

I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.

Mark Cuban

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

Mark Cuban

I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion,

Mark Cuban

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

Mark Cuban

I don't think people realize the risks they face every time they create a text, or post on a social network. Unless you expressly make the effort, everything you do online, including texting, has a shelf life of forever.

Mark Cuban

Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is.

Madeleine Albright

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

Madeleine Albright

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

Madeleine Albright

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

Madeleine Albright

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

Madeleine Albright

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

Charlie Bewley

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

Charles Wesley

Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

Charley Reese

American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us.

Charles Lederer

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Charles Laughton

Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.

What a person thinks about determines what he is.

Charles Koch

Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to - or is willing to get the kind of abuse and attacks that we do, or death threats, so they're not willing to have their names out. I think the other side is pushing for that because they want to intimidate people so they won't oppose it.