Famous Movie Insults Quotes & Sayings

[Julia Carey] had never, even when very young, experienced a desire to sit at the feet of superior wisdom, always greatly preferring a chair of her own. She seldom did wrong, in her own opinion, because the moment she entertained an idea it at once became right, her vanity serving as a pair of blinders to keep her from seeing the truth. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices. — Robert Burchfield

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' — Stephen Colbert

Think and Grow Rich is about abundance, including spiritual abundance, and how to attract all that is good into your life. — Robin S. Sharma

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting. — Sun Tzu

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. — Charles Caleb Colton

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. — Germaine Greer

I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly. — Wilkie Collins

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support. — Anna Friel

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. — Mo Ibrahim

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II, — Rand Paul

Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with reciprocal altruism the goal is that the organism be left under the impression that we've helped; the impression alone is enough to bring the reciprocation. — Robert Wright

We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side? — Ronald Reagan

The trouble with women? Elbows. — Michael Caine

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that. — Garth Stein