(1102 quotes found)
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality”
Dante Alighieri
“Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.”
Ansel Adams
“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear”
Daniel Defoe
“In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.”
Jack Handy
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”
Charlie Chaplin
“He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Scientist announced a device that can be placed in a pacemaker and will call your doctor whenever you are having heart trouble. When told about it, Dick Cheney said, "I can't afford those kind of phone bills."”
Conan O'Brien
“Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.”
Sammy Davis Jr.
“Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“We must expel the Arabs and take their places.”
David Ben-Gurion