Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Singer

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Shirley Jackson

Our major exports are books and children, both of which we produce in abundance. The children are Laurence, Joanne, Sarah and Carry.

Dorothy Gilman

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

James Dickey

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

Russell Hoban

Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Charles James

The antitrust division has been left in very good shape by Joel Klein. I've found a number of enforcement issues I'm happy to pursue.

Joe Wilson

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Jonathan Franzen

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

Patricia Highsmith

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

Rajeev Sharma

Japan's decision to build more intense relationship with India as reflected by two countries assertion to upgrade their strategic dialogue is indicative of newer realignment of forces in Asia.

William Wilkinson

There is an avalanche of evidence that will show that Noe's association with the coin fund was widely known, and making the assertion of concealment is preposterous.

John F. Kerry

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

George Dennison Prentice

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

bell hooks

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

John Roberts

We should ignore that assertion in any event, ... as well as the assertion that the EEOC is 'un-American,' the truth of the matter notwithstanding. I have drafted a deliberately bland response for your signature.

Margaret Mitchell

There are proposals where there is little or no evidence available from the executive to support the assertion that the reforms proposed will safeguard the interests of children and support stable families.

Dave Borison

Firmware upgradeability is an outrageous assertion to be made at this point.

Roger Clemens

Roberts said. ''This is my team. It's special. It's doubly special for me. I missed school to watch this team play. I had dreams of playing for the Padres.

Jimmy Smits

Jimmy is not a good talker, ... prepare doubly hard.

Lea Thompson

As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.

Marcus Aurelius

The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past

Kerry Stokes

I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

George H. W. Bush

It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground.

Steve Young

It'll come. When it does, that's when he'll be doubly dangerous.

Jill Soloway

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

Eric Noble

They needed more people even if they had stayed here (in Southern California). Every one of these announcements hits them doubly hard. Even if they hadn't lost a soul, they were going to be shorthanded.

Billy Graham

part poet, part preacher, a singer of the human spirit.

Margot Robbie

People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.

Dan Shechtman

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Bhagavad Gita

Success in work comes quickly in this human world.

Jim Leach

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Kamila Hyat

Our view is that if surveillance has happened, it is undemocratic. This is a violation of human rights.

Tony Perkins

Rep. Foxx is to be commended for supporting public policy that values human life, protects our religious liberties, and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family.

Jimmy Schaeffler

Piracy has taken a hit, but it's always going to be a problem. It's human nature to find ways around paying.

Justin Verlander

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

Stan Heath

Steven has a humorous side to him that you wouldn't expect. I see more of it this season. Life is more normal for him in some ways. He's opening up slowly.

Joanna Lumley

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Karen Leathem

I think it's sort of a trademark quality of New Orleans that people can usually find humor in the worst situations.

Greg Evans

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

Ed Peterson

I think this is a legislative sense of humor the rest of us don't appreciate.

Stephen J. Cannell

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

Carlos Ponce

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Justin Turner

Jamaal is real a humorous and entertaining guy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can insult you without your permission.

Juvenal

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Michael Hoffman

This newspaper is completely and totally objective and unbiased. I don't want to dignify their insults with comments.

Bob Johnson

How ironic that Sam Johnson has just returned from a visit to Hanoi yet insults the memory for the man who go him out of the there.

Portia de Rossi

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

Plautus

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang)

Josephine Baker

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Salman Rushdie

YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.

Mike McCurdy

(Our) listeners are known for their love of lifelong learning." ()

Mike Blakely

Some of them are not well known around here yet, like Jed & Kelley, who moved here from Tennessee,

Santiago Lyon

Our practice is to not move material that is known to be offensive.

Lee Peterson

Our son is innocent. We know that. We've known it from day one.

Maureen McCormick

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

Tom Andrews

Manny was also known as 'right now.' When he wanted something done, it had to be done right now.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Richard Matvichuk

That's what I'm going to try to do. I'm known as a physical, stay-at-home defenseman. I'm not going out thinking I'm going to score goals.

Irish Proverb

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.