Quotes 71

I always thought it would be better, to be a fake somebody... than a real nobody..

Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Paul Varjak: I don't want to put you in a cage. I want to love you.
Holly Golightly: It's the same thing.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will.

Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

A boy's best friend is his mother.

Norman Bates, Psycho

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

Google Founder — Sergey Brin

A chatty person is an open letter which everybody can read.

Pierre Boiste

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Bill Gates

A person needs two years to learn to speak, and sixty years to learn to keep your mouth shut.

Lion Feuchtwanger

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible…

Oscar Wilde

The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.

Yiddish proverb

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Ayrton Senna

Defeat—I do not recognise the meaning of the word!

Margaret Thatcher

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do.

Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Anatole France

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

Google Founder — Sergey Brin

Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again.

Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

There is no royal road to learning

Anthony Trollope

Go slow and you'll get there faster.

Yiddish proverb

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in… but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

Mark Zuckerberg

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.

Jewish Proverb

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Coco Chanel

I don't have to go to Detroit to know it smells!

Dr. Gregory House, House MD

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Thomas Carlyle

— Do you like animals?
— A lot.
— And people?
— Not so much, especially if they are strangers.

The Taming of the Scoundrel

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hunter Stockton Thompson

When asked if they would like to have sex with me, 30% of women said, 'Yes', while the other 70% replied, 'What, again?'

Silvio Berlusconi

It never got fast enough for me.

Hunter Stockton Thompson

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

Great intellects are skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

George Clooney

Time is more precious than money.

Yiddish proverb

A light purse is a heavy curse.

English proverb

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

In bad times even a penny is money.

Yiddish proverb

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Money makes the mare go.

English proverb

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An estrangement in a family is a shame, but Death is the great unifier.

Dr. Pittman, Dexter

The things you own end up owning you.

Tyler Durden, Fight Club

I don't exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the sex.

John Nash, A Beautiful Mind

Work could cure almost anything.

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

I been savin' this money for a divorce, if ever I got a husband.

Annie, It's a Wonderful Life

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Mark Zuckerberg

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Coco Chanel

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

The world is beautiful but people make it ugly.

Yiddish proverb

You can never really know the size of a person's brain until you have to clean it off the carpet.

Ben London, Mad Dog Time

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction...

Tyler Durden, Fight Club

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Benjamin Franklin

And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going.

Forrest Gump

Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

Yiddish proverb

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Jewish Proverb

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel