Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

Liz: If we want just a girls' night out tonight, I have "When Harry Met Sally" and a bottle of Bacardi in my room. Natasha: I've never seen "A Bottle of Bacardi.

On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.';"Ralph Waldo Emerson

Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.

Harris's Lament: All the good ones are taken.

We're quite happy with how we are doing in Laughlin at Harrah's.

You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?;"Joel Chandler Harris, proverbs of Uncle Remus

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Emersons' Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

Who loses a day loses life-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?;"Ralph Emerson

Harriet What do you look for in a woman you date Charlie Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size.

Voldemort- HA. I killed your parents.! Harry Potter- Yeah, but atleast my parents didnt take the 'I got your nose' game seriously. Voldemort- :O.......

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?-Sydney J. Harris

Amanda: Do you think that guy on TV is cute? Mom: Well... he's okay, but he's no Mel Gibson. Amanda: Mom, nobody is Mel Gibson. Except Harrison Ford!

Blue paint today. [Funny to Jack Slingwine, Guy Harris and Hal Pierson. Ed.]

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.

I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat.

Wouldn't it be SO cool to have Harrison Ford as your dad? I mean, it would suck because you would sweat your dad, but it would still be cool.

Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.

He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we really belong.

Harrison Ford as the President of the United States in Air Force One is such a perfect piece of casting that it's once a fantasy and a joke The joke is how perfect the fantasy is.

Harriet Do you actually like haggis Charlie No, I think it's repellent in every way. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

Charlie And I'd really like to kiss you, but that's not a good idea, because then we'd start kissing on the couch, and then we'd start kissing on the bed, and I don't wanna rush into spending the night together. Harriet I'd love to spend the night together. Charlie I have no problem with that

Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.

Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection.

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.