E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Everyone knows that sadness and grief are the price of admission for the experiences of joy and connection.”
“Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid”
“Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who do good while doing well.”
“Everyone knows that the environments we created to satisfy our wishes for sweets, salt, fat and leisure have resulted in epidemics of chronic disease. Obesity and eating disorders are prime examples, but alcoholism and drug addiction are also made possible by ready access to substances and means of administration that have only recently become available. Lack of selection until recent times against these often fatal disorders is an essential part of any evolutionary explanation.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has uttered that exact phrase every single day since 1993. However, it certainly appears that the main thing the Internet has accomplished is the normalization of amateur pornography. There is no justification for the amount of naked people on the World Wide Web, many of whom are clearly (clearly!) doing so for non-monetary reasons. Where were these people fifteen years ago? Were there really millions of women in 1986 turning to their husbands and saying, 'You know, I would love to have total strangers masturbate to images of me deep-throating a titanium dildo, but there's simply no medium for that kind of entertainment. I guess we'll just have to sit here and watch Falcon Crest again.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Everyone knows that the people in the marriage are the ones responsible for the marriage, everyone except married people...”
Source: You Love Me
“Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.”
“Everyone knows that Theodore Roosevelt was able to wring so much life out of each day, every hour, every minute. And yet, when one is immersed in a detailed, retrospective review of his life, his intense living, his vigor di vita, is nonetheless breathtaking.”
“Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.”
“Everyone knows that they weren’t brought by the stork, and yet, where it is the actual sex act that is at issue, as far as it concerns their own parents, most people would rather that they had been.”
Source: Unveiling reality
“Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.”
Source: I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon
“Everyone knows that to openly show any disrespect for Magiano means instant death at my hands.”
Source: The Midnight Star
“Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.”
“Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our own faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.”
“Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.”
Source: Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days
“Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.”
Source: Pretty Monsters
“Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.”
“Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.”
“Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.”
Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant
“Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.”
“Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.”
Source: Shopaholic & Baby
“Everyone knows the game is about the players.”
“Everyone knows the idea of moving to another country is really hard, but when you're actually in the situation - and you don't know the language and you don't know anyone - it's like you don't even know what questions to ask.”
“Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.”
“Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood.”
“Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.”
“Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.”
“Everyone knows the rules of three's, you can survive three weeks without food, but not in this environment.”
“Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of „Sailing”: 'No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes us/We don't care.' In fact I have always felt that the song is a little melodramatic, and that if anyone should sing it, it is Arsenal.
Every Arsenal fan, the youngest and the oldest, is aware that no one likes us, and every day we hear that dislike reiterated.”
Source: Fever Pitch
“Everyone knows the trouble with myth. The trouble with myth is the way it shirks blame.
It makes violent death as unavoidable as weather. All that tragic destiny lets everyone off the hook. Some bored god comes kicking up gravel and, just like that, a noble house explodes into carnage.”
Source: The Red Word
“Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.”
Source: There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble
“Everyone knows they are going to die on one single day. But everyone has hope that it will not be today. The hope is running us to live a life. But we are dying to give a life to hope itself, every single day.”
“Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.”
“Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did we would do things differently. Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”
“Everyone knows this.
The voyage into the interior is all that matters,
Whatever your ride.”
Source: Littlefoot: A Poem
“Everyone knows Valentine's son."
"I know, but - when Emma saw you, she acted like you were her celebrity crush.
Like you were on the cover of Shadowhunters Weekly every month."
"You know, when they asked me to pose, they said it would be tasteful..."
"As long as you were holding a strategically placed seraph blade, I don't see the problem," Clary said, and Jace laughed, a cut-off sound that indicated that she had surprised the amusement out of him.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?”
“Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.”
“Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.”
“Everyone knows what can happen to a woman, on the streets, in their own home, during the safety of the day, in the darkness of night. Yet still, when she dares speak of it, no one believes her.”
Source: Women Who Slay Women
“Everyone knows what earthly success looks like - money, objects, acclaim. But only a special few understand true success, found inside us, attainable only by those fearless enough to follow their heart to become the best at what they care about most.”
Source: The Accidental Caregiver Part Ii: Saying Yes to a World Without Maria Altmann
“Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.”
“Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.”
“Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.”
“Everyone knows what the female complaint is: women live for love, and love is the gift that keeps on taking”
Source: The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
“Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.”
“Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.”
“Everyone knows you can't see death cooties. Take my word for it, that couch has the biggest, fattest death cooties that ever existed. That couch has the mother of all death cooties. – Lula”
Source: Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel