Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Pauley

You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.

Tom Wolfe

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Tom Wolfe

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

Robert Trout

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Katherine Anne Porter

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Katherine Anne Porter

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Katherine Anne Porter

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

Eric Sevareid

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

Jef I. Richards

I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Cameron Russell

I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

Sam Harris

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

Ray LaMontagne

My backstory is so tedious.

Sam Brownback

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

Billy Corgan

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

Willie Evans

Some day Turner Gill is going to get us another one.

Tim Crawford

In the end, (Nate) Turner was way too much for us.