Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Riesman

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

David Hume

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

Barney Frank

Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

Dee Dee Ramone

When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'

Deborah Eisenberg

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

Dennis Hopper

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

Dennis Kucinich

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

Alain Juppe

In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!

Al Yankovic

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

Alanis Morissette

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

Alanis Morissette

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Bob Schnorbus

We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a third of sales for only a two week period, you still come out with an eye-popping 13.3 million sales rate; 13.3 million is about as low as sales ever get.

Danny Davis

like a dance: how low can you go.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

David Walliams

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

David Hilbert

However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Barry Bostwick

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

Derek Fisher

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

Deb Caletti

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Deb Caletti

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

Alan Dershowitz

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Marco Tempest

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Jimmy Cliff

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Carson McCullers

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Ted Morgan

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Luke Bracey

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Sandra Lee

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.