Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

Prince Royce

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Russell Pearce

We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.

Yuri Kochiyama

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Bob Geldof

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

David Sedaris

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.

Brad Sherman

In a big murder trial, the sandwich is important.

John Updike

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Neil Gaiman

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

Neil Gaiman

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

John Waters

I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

John Steinbeck

You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

Philip Larkin

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

Maureen Johnson

I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.

Matt Mullenweg

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

Augusten Burroughs

I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.

We used to say that the motivations for tourists were sea, sun and sand ... the three new S's are safety, security and sanitation.