I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has fired a campaign adviser for posting racist remarks on Facebook. Isn't that shocking? Donald Trump has a campaign adviser. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Professor Macleod, in his remarks, gave everything that I was going to say and used the pronoun 'we' throughout. The following day,… — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right… — Richard Briers Copy Share Image
There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the… — Martin Walker Copy Share Image
“I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I'm not comparing myself with Donald Trump or anybody else - but the people are fed up with the politicians ignoring the… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those… — Jack Kelly Copy Share Image
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
In case you're wondering what we all do here during the commercial breaks, mostly we just sit around making catty remarks about… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18... — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you know why some people feel jealousy from me? Because I don't like to comment back on their stupid remarks. — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
While Jeb Bush finds himself mired in the muck of an intramural fight in his own party over his remarks about the… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image