Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. F. Benson

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

D. James

What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting

Eliza Haywood

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

Terry Denbow

We're not apologizing for it. We boast about it. It's an efficient use of time and resources.

Paul Ford

But what they did not know - and what the Canadian government did not boast about - was that Canada had fallen to 35th place in the world in the number of troops it had committed to peacekeeping missions.

Martin O'Malley

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

Bern Williams

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

Tom Collen

I don't think we saw this coming. I thought we were ready. But there are not many conferences who can boast a 12 seed as good as West Virginia. We approached this game like we were the underdog having lost to them, but maybe that wasn't the right way to do it.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Tony Hawk

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

P. J. O'Rourke

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Rhys Ifans

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

Mallory Ortberg

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Ronald Reagan

You are right, ... We didn't have those things when we were young. We invented them.

Milt Stegall

We're not mathematically out of it, but the math we need, they haven't invented it yet.

Clint Eastwood

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

Brian Chesky

In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since,

John Livingston

We are pleased to be making such positive progress toward our primary objective of one million users by June 30, 2007,

Diane Duane

Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

Dennis Ritchie

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Richard Archer

We'll be back in June and plan to make up for it.

Earl Graves

Since June of 2004, we've funded 73 charities.

Barbara Billingsley

People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

LeRoy Neiman

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

Denise Levertov

In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.

Carole Bouquet

At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. Its the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.

Carl Barat

When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

C. S. Lewis

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Aaron Sorkin

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

Aaron Sorkin

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Charlie Daniels

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.

Charles de Lint

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Charles Dickens

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.