Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Crier

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Edmund Burke

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

Edsger Dijkstra

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

Ben Jonson

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Barack Obama

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

Brother Lawrence

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

Bear Grylls

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

Bryant H. McGill

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Carlos Santana

You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

Arthur Rubinstein

At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.

Diana Gabaldon

A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.

David Niven

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

Alfred Stieglitz

When I make a picture, I make love.

Adam Sandler

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Andre Breton

Words make love with one another.

Marc Bolan

We have a very good head thing but we don't make love.

Georgia O'Keeffe

We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

Carlos Ghosn

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.

Ricky Gervais

The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.

Djuna Barnes

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Byron Katie

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

Mika

Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.

Malcolm Speed

We started the event with 12 teams but reduced it to a 10-team event following criticism there was too much disparity between the top 10 and the 11th and 12th teams.

Brendan Fraser

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy

Brad Pitt

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.