Top 10 World Wise Quotes & Sayings

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. — Thomas Carlyle

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes. — Lou Holtz

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. — Dorothy Dix

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. — Christine Keeler

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan. — Nicole Polizzi

A dalliance with poetry before we dance. — Delano Johnson

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise. — Nina Jacobson

There are those who will immediately be drawn to the idea of pattern-seeking, and — Douglas R. Hofstadter

The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality. — Brennan Manning

Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them. — Pete Hamill

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important. — John Sayles

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end. — Raina Telgemeier

What role have I left for religion? None. And I have left none because the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ leaves none. Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion. — Robert Farrar Capon

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore. — Alexander Kluge