Remarks Quotes · Page 10

I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause…

— Bill Vaughan

After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.

— Charles Foster Johnson

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President.…

— Bill Vaughan

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without…

— George Eliot

I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer…

— Saul Bellow

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous…

— Thomas Huxley

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what…

— H. L. Mencken

Contrary to what you may think, an immoral act of any kind will only lower your self-esteem. Be true to yourselves, and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this…

— Mark Twain

Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity…

— John Montgomery Ward

“Okay, let's put this another way―if what you're about to say wouldn't look good permanently engraved on your tombstone, bite your tongue.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence…

— John Stuart Mill

I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.

— Scott McClellan

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether…

— Heywood Broun

It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed…

— Richard Dawkins

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense…

— Robert Benchley

He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren`t captured.

— Donald Trump

It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult…

— Doris Lessing

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is…

— Charles Francis Richter

I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun,…

— William Hague

Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence…

— Paul Davies