Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bennett

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Chogyam Trungpa

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

Chinua Achebe

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Cheri Huber

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

Charlie Munger

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

Kurt Vonnegut

... life, by definition, is never still.

Cary Grant

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Camille Paglia

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Charlie Melancon

I don't represent corporations.

Bob Black

To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.

Caitlin Stasey

The ideal body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

Callie Khouri

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.

Cecile Richards

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

Elizabeth Warren

Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.

Elizabeth Warren

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

Eli Broad

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

Bill Lee

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...

Alan Kay

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

Ben Whishaw

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

Barbara Kingsolver

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Charles R. Swindoll

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

Abby Wambach

Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.

Abraham Verghese

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Ann Brashares

There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.