Favorite Quotes - page 63

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair. (Bernard Williams)
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. View quote
Albert Camus
Justice august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men where the mind rises where the heart expands where the countenance is ever placid and benign where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate to hear their cry and to help them to rescue and relieve to succor and save majestic, from its mercy venerable, from its Lutility uplifted, without pride firm without obduracy beneficent in each preference lovely, though in her frown. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser. View quote
Brad Pitt
I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it. View quote
Jackson Browne
The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done. View quote
Jackson Browne
Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not. View quote
Carlos Ghosn
The War of the Spanish Succession lasted thirteen years and would have been wonderful if it hadn't been for the Duke of Marlborough. Things went from bad to worse until just about anybody could defeat the French. On one occasion, Louis's favorite regiment was knocked out by a man named Lumley. View quote
Will Cuppy
International soccer has been a big part of my love for the sport. I love the Men's National Team. I can say that they're my favorite sports team. View quote
Drew Carey
Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time. (Bill Walton)
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball. View quote
Bill Walton
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips. View quote
Utah Phillips
The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance. View quote
Jon Krakauer
All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless. View quote
Rihanna
Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion. View quote
Walter Bagehot
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? View quote
Mitch Albom
I wish I had space to write more of the surpassing beauty of this favorite spruce. ... The deer love to lie down beneath its spreading branches; bright streams from the snow that is always near ripple through its groves, and bryanthus spreads precious carpets in its shade. But the best words only hint its charms. Come to the mountains and see. View quote
John Muir
When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. View quote
Dave Matthews
My love of performing goes way back. My Mom got me on Romper Room when I was five--It was my favorite show. But they couldn't control me. I would run up and smack the camera, and I'd jump around and do my little flips and routines. (Leonardo DiCaprio)
I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause. View quote
Mark Skousen
You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise. View quote
Mark Skousen
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. View quote
Nikki Giovanni