Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Barton

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

Mark Harmon

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

William Shakespeare

What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name.

Horace

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Peter Kellner

You have got football hooliganism, a number of players who regularly disgrace themselves and a national team that never quite makes it.

Anna Held

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Saint Teresa of Avila

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Sally Regenhard

We are hoping that the federal government will not leave these victims behind. This is not only a disgrace to the city, it's a disgrace to the nation.

S. Walker

Having been there - I repeat, having been there - I do not wish jail for any person. I really feel sorry for George and his family. ... I wish no man to have that and no man to have that disgrace that I had.

Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god.

Anne Frank

Misfortunes never come singly.

Nicholas Rowe

As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great.

Nicholas Rowe

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,/ And none could be unhappy but the great.

A. J. Bowen

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

Philip Omondi

It was just misfortune and we are still perplexed by what happened.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Louisa May Alcott

Everybody has their days of misfortune.

Pierre Corneille

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

Carl Guardino

The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

Carl Guardino

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

Carl Guardino

High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Alan Kay

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlie Cook

The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.

Charlie Cook

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

Charlie Cook

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Peter Rose

We've seen no disruptions. We are anticipating a normal work day.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Sandra Cisneros

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.