Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chaim Potok

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

David Walliams

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

David Hume

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Branford Marsalis

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

Benjamin Disraeli

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Alain de Botton

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

Diana Gabaldon

She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

Barbara Walters

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Laurie Graham

My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation.

Joyce Carol Oates

My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself.

Edward Abbey

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

Ben Elliot

Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.

Thomas Moore

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rouT to retire upon.

Logan P. Smith

There is one thing that matters / to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan P. Smith

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Thomas Reid

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.