Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Riesman

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

Alan Coren

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Al Capone

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Charles Kingsley

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Janis Joplin

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

C. S. Lewis

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

Bob Costas

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

David Horowitz

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Barney Frank

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

Audre Lorde

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

Audre Lorde

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Asne Seierstad

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

Jamie Zawinski

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Bobby Ray Inman

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Gloria Moore

I wish he would've heeded the warning and left, but he didn't and we hurt,

Michelle Paver

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

Jodi Picoult

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Cassandra Clare

No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warning against one of the nephilim.

Cassandra Clare

He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.