Controversial Sayings

528 sayings found from 528 authors

I suffered two grave accidents in my life... One in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

— Frida Kahlo 1940s
General

I’m not going to change who I am or what I write about to make people comfortable.

— Taylor Swift 2015
General

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death, and famine.

— Banksy 2005
General

Nick Barmby is up there with Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini and Ronaldo [Nazario].

— Pele Unknown, mentioned in 2022 and 2020 articles.
Shocking

I don't sing to sound like nobody. I sing to sound like Ray Charles.

— Ray Charles 1965
General

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

— Gloria Steinem Unknown, part of general quotes collection
Shocking

I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

— John D. Rockefeller 1905
General

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

— Warren Buffett 2006
General

You become what you believe.

— Oprah Winfrey 2013
General

We have this illusion that laws are permanent.

— Sergey Brin 2013
General

We're not doing enough to stop abuse and harassment on Twitter.

— Jack Dorsey 2018
General

Moore’s Law is dead.

— Jensen Huang 2022
General

I don't think any sport should take itself so seriously that it can't laugh at itself.

— Jackie Robinson 1970
General

I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either.

— Jesse Owens 1936
Political

I don't need to accept anything. I don't need to accept that I'm second best.

— Serena Williams 2018
General

I'm for life on every planet.

— Tiny Tim 2007 (published)
Shocking

I was born with something that appealed to an audience at that particular time. I can't explain it any other way.

— Audrey Hepburn 1980
General

I think the Holocaust proved that God doesn't exist. No just God would allow what happened to those people.

— Steven Spielberg 1994
Religious

I don't really see comic book movies as cinema.

— Martin Scorsese 2019
General

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear.

— Yuri Gagarin 1961
General
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