Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Jourgensen

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

Frank Tyger

You can't be envious and happy at the same time

Jaime Ray Newman

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

Maurice Cheeks

In the NBA, it?s a little different. It?s more of a job. I?m sure some NBA players -- I know myself -- are a little envious of just the feeling of it all. It?s a great feeling watching those players, the way they feel -- the feeling that comes out when they lose a game, the feeling that comes out when they win a game. It?s a great thing to watch.

Patrice Servelle

He told us he was envious of us, that he missed it and would like to be with us. That he was with us in spirit, but would have liked to have been in the sled with us.

Michael Keaton

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

Johnny Depp

You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be appalled.

Evan Savoie

When he fell, I was the first one to jump down and help him. He stood up, his eyes just got wide and big ... then he just fell.

O. Henry

The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.

Robertson Davies

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Leo Veness

The eyes say many different things without having to verbally say anything at all.

Yiddish Proverb

The eyes are the mirror of the soul

Charles Cochran

This was a tactic to ruin Roger before the eyes of the public. But Roger stood up to the union and said, 'What you did to me is wrong,' and the jury has vindicated him.

Kim Cattrall

There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head.

Charles Jones

We're in a period in which all eyes have moved away from Bush. Having a term limitation is an invitation for turning your eyes from what was to what is likely to be in the future.

Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Dave Chappelle

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

Dave Chappelle

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Catherine Deneuve

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Joanna Lumley

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Edmund Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Edward R. Murrow

Fame is morally neutral.

Edward Norton

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Charlie Munger

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Edward Abbey

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Benjamin Franklin

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

William Shakespeare

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

William Shakespeare

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

William Shakespeare

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Earl Warren

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Philippe Petit

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Dennis Farina

When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Clive James

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Danny Devito

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

Harry Seidler

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

Carl Bernstein

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.

C. S. Lewis

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Agnes Repplier

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Aasif Mandvi

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

Alan Kay

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Charlotte Bronte

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

Ricky Gervais

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

Brian Cox

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.