Verpasste Quotes & Sayings

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. — Abe Fortas

It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists. — Kenny Smith

I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet. — Jack Whittaker

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist] — Samuel Johnson

Even the grandest lives come down to a few people and places. Loved ones, your daily work, your neighborhood. I don't mean that in a belittling way. I've been realizing how complete our lives can be with just the few people and activities you most love. — Daphne Kalotay

The dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired. — Dorothy Bryant

In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division. — Frederick Lenz

What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? — Kahlil Gibran

I love that Euro-pop dance music, but with girl power. I also listen to Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. I have a Beatles song tattooed on my foot. I'm all over the place. — Hilary Duff

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country. — Julia Child

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are — Libba Bray

The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat." — Michael Schur

The priest read his thing. I didn't listen. There was the coffin. What had been Betty was in there. It was very hot. The sun came down in one yellow sheet. A fly circled around. Halfway through the halfway funeral two guys in working clothes came carrying my wreath. The roses were dead, dead and dying in the heat, and they leaned the thing up against a nearby tree. Near the end of the service my wreath leaned forward and fell flat on its face. Nobody picked it up. Then it was over. — Charles Bukowski

The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture. — Pearl Zhu