(1595 quotes found)
“No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least of all a Calvinist”
Cardinal Caraffa
“She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.”
P. G. Wodehouse
“Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.”
Jack Handy
“Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact and on two feet.”
Marilyn Monroe
“I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.”
Katharine Butler Hathaway
“I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.”
David Hume
“As an atheist you have to rationalize things. . . . Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!”
Billy Joel
“Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“I grew up sort of like a princess. I know that sounds awful, but I was the baby of the family. I had older brothers, so the little girl always gets everything she wants. As I've gotten older, I've realized that if you want something bad enough, you can have it. I've never gone after something I didn't get. Not yet.”
Rachel Bilson
“Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them”
George Savile