Desisting From Crime Quotes & Sayings

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. — Dean Kamen

When you're spending your money for a nice outing, you want to go have a good time. And I always thought comedies, laughing, was something that was made for entertainment on that level. And records and maybe TV and stuff like that is really made to be heavy. — Ice Cube

If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life. — Bette Midler

Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally given to the term, but to specify thereby all the actions that emanate from active goodness. — Germaine De Stael

Presently I somehow found myself singing. The words were mere nonsense- irresponsible babble ... Humanity would have rejected it with scorn. Nature, everywhere singing in the same key, recognized and accepted it without a flicker of dissent. — Kenneth Grahame

I think what I love most about Oprah's brand that I would love to do with the Eva Longoria brand is she has purpose with her brand. Everything she does means something. — Eva Longoria

Poetry is a religion with no hope. — Jean Cocteau

His first question shows how well he knows me:
TheRoommate: Did you take any money out of her purse? — Tucker Max

Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on one of my favorite British Open-style links, and in particular the great courses of the west of Ireland, whose holes flow through naturally bunkered dunesland never far from the sight or sound of surf. — Henry Beard

[T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure. — Richard Brown

You don't have to go away to know where your home is. — Morgan Matson

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong. — Carlos Ghosn

If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.' — Mitch Leigh

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan

God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" ... "How much do I get? What time is lunch?" ... "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet." — Shel Silverstein