Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Glenn Close

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness

Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

George Stigler

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Ezra Pound

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

Markus Persson

Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

Regina Rogers

It gets boring a lot of times. When I'm in the game, it's not as boring.

Bob Johnson

It had to have been one of the most boring games in the world.

George Carlin

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws (at most an occasional visit to the cemetery)

Jon Phillips

I could sit around all day picking stocks I know would return 10% to 15% per year, but that's boring and not very profitable. Finding undervalued or 'forgotten' companies is what makes investing fun.

Mitch Corwin

Grocery stores have historically been fairly boring and not a fun place to shop, but now Whole Foods turned that image on its side.

M. J. Rose

If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

Ruth Reichl

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

Marcus Martial

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Bernard Laporte

If we win, I don't see how Ireland could better our points difference.

Lady Gregory

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

Tony Blair

Yet here we are for all the difficulties in Northern Ireland able to point back to real improvements in the security and the standards of living,

John Cooney

Middle-class Ireland has effectively become a la carte Catholics.

Denis Leary

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

Mo Mowlam

The last thing the people of Northern Ireland need now is an outbreak of recriminations,

Ian Paisley

Do they think that the people of Northern Ireland are fools?

Bertie Ahern

It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible.

Linda Doyle

Because Ireland is an island, it can be a playground for spectrum.