Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Fallon

People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn't the most popular kid. I wasn't the nerdiest kid. I was kind of in the middle.

Steve Spurrier

I think they dislike Florida, to tell you the truth, a lot more than me .... A few fans might want to yell some insults at me which is fine. I've heard it all before. Hurl insults, just don't hurl bottles, and I'll be fine.

Tim Bodine

That's what I dislike about the mainstream media. There's this overwhelming cynicism.

Douglas Carter Beane

I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.

Holger Schmieding

I dislike the VAT hike tremendously, I don't think it's necessary.

Jennifer Morrison

I dislike the online catalog; it's just easier to grab a printed schedule and look at it.

Mal Peet

I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

Charles Manson

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

Richard Flanagan

I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.

Catullus

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Robert H. Connelly

I winna blaw about mysel, as ill I like my faults to tell

Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take half so much satisfaction in observing those of other people.

Charles Churchill

To copy faults is want of sense.

Charles Darwin

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

Oscar Wilde

None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Hasidic Proverb

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none

Abraham Lincoln

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

Julie Harris

one of this country's most acclaimed and revered actors.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

D. A. Carson

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

Matt Groening

Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same." --Reverend Lovejoy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

Rajneesh

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

Pythagoras

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Saint Augustine

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.