Famous Futurist Quotes & Sayings

When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable. — Phoebe Philo

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test. — Paula Jones

One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series. — Cal Ripken Jr.

There were tiny moments, like this, when the grief came on strong out of nowhere. It was sneaky, and tricky, and you couldn't see it coming until it was already there. It came with the mundane, simple tasks: My mother would never be hanging pink streamers at my shower. I would never lean over to someone and conspiratorially whisper, My mother is crazy. She would never become a grandmother. Laura — Megan Miranda

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds. — Jonathan Franzen

Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety. — William Penn

And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace ... — Louisa May Alcott

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Sometimes as I laid there with my Walkman and headphones, I'd stare at the closed door and know she was just across the hall. What was she doing? — Cambria Hebert

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. — Elvis Presley

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. — Christopher Buckley

Theseus: What is the crime for which you must pay by death?
Phaedra: My life. — Seneca.