Funny Olly Murs Quotes & Sayings

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning. — Bertrand Russell

We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed - selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful - we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic - and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture. Can it be that our critics have not the key or the language of our culture? — John Steinbeck

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence. — Jenny Shipley

With my rags I ought to wear a cap, any sort of old pancake, but not this grotesque thing. Nobody wears such a hat, it would be noticed a mile off, it would be remembered ... . What matters is that people would remember it, and that would give them a clue — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid. — Jay Leno

If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place. — Mike Love

It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast. — Ricky Gervais

Where the heart is the mind works best. — Louisa May Alcott

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind. — Walter Schloss

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself. — John Donne

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. — Aldous Huxley

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end. — Mark Ruffalo

Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating. — Jon Katz