5424 Quotes & Sayings

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you. — Mel Gibson

I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou. — Yvonne De Carlo

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China. — Hank Williams Jr.

Leave it to a kid to sum up the state of my career so accurately in two words. And leave it to an adult to rationalize it in three: "It's a living. — A.G. Riddle

Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is. — Mary Lasswell

was then that Joss saw the second scaling hook and rope ten feet away. — Carrier Slocomb

How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or her work, while work should offer a service to people so they may have dignity. I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes "slave labor." — Pope Francis

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do. — Samantha Harvey

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. — Constance Baker Motley

You mustn't hit her over the head with it. Women like to be romanced like the heroines in the sensation novels." "What the devil do you know about sensation novels?" "A man can learn a great deal about women from novels," Matt said. "You should try it sometime. — Amanda Quick

Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences. This, like other 'no matter what' prohibitions, assumes the validity of the distinction between acts and omissions. Without this distinction, pacifists who refuse to use violence when it is the only means of preventing greater violence would be responsible for the greater violence they fail to prevent. — Peter Singer

Why do the impulsive notions of a would-be do-gooder always translate into the ideals of the next civilization? — Chuck Palahniuk

Kangaroo farts, as fate would have it, don't contain methane. — Steven D. Levitt

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles