Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron McGruder

Ultimately I think everyone draws their own line of what's shocking and what is inappropriate in different places. For you, some 10-year-old kids talking about hoes may not (be) that big of a deal. But someone out there is gonna flip. There's no way to know. So I just try to deliver an amusing and decent story and leave the shock and the awe to whatever people have in their own heads.

Mark Rowen

We believe we're moving ever closer to the light at the end of the valuation tunnel on eBay. We find it interesting and amusing to note that as investors' risk/reward ratio had dramatically improved, the market has become increasingly jittery about the future prospects for eBay.

James Fenimore Cooper

It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

Jim Crace

My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.

Jeff Pain

His personality leans to some 'off-color' type of jokes and some people find him funny and amusing to be around and some people take offense. I doubt he will change who he is and nor should he. ... He has kids and now he has to explain why his sense of humor has cost him.

Lesley Stahl

But don't you find this interesting that the one big area where gay men are more like straight men is in sex? I mean, that is?both amusing and odd.

Gary Stern

What I find very amusing is they're still using machines that have not been proven in any court of law. That they are actually reliable in measuring speed.

Cher

I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.

Kailash Kher

What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.

John Whitehead

Ultimately, the teams will help us to develop a truly compelling design for the World Trade Center site -- a grand and majestic vision that inspires awe while respectfully memorializing the lives lost on September 11th. And I promise you this: it will be glorious.

Gary Andersen

We started playing a little bit soft, playing some zone. Probably shouldn't have done it. Probably should have just kept on going and kept on grinding. But the third quarter was lights out. That was an awesome performance out of the kids, and we got turnovers.

Steve Olson

We started planning last year, looking for a capstone project to encapsulate a bunch of different trades and fields to give the kids an awesome co-op experience.

Bruce Beehler

We stood in awe as the male romped about in the saplings around our entrance trail, flicking his wings and white flank plumes, and whistling his sweet two-note song for the female-plumaged bird. I was too spellbound to go get my camera.

John Pietkiewicz

When you walk in, you're a little bit in awe of a place like this and all the fans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

Lee Bermejo

I'm definitely not a monthly guy. Probably never will be. I'm simply in awe of the guys who do monthly books well... hell, in awe of people who do monthlies period.

Bud Camp

When you talk to the person, you're making it for them, not for a shop. We've met some of the most awesome people.

Kevin Flynn

We've got an awesome coach this year. Hernan definitely knows what he's doing.

John Brady

We want to see the figures, refinery runs and all the others. There will be a decent draw in products, especially gasoline.

Dave Wannstedt

We know where we're decent and we know where we have to get a lot better. There's not an easy solution.

Scott Mellanby

We know we need some help. One has to lose. You'd like to think you have decent odds.

Andrew Flintoff

We are pleased with the total and the fashion we got it. I think we've had a decent day.

Robert Long

There are some genuinely problematic reports out today, like Merck, but there's a lot of good stuff, too, and people are taking some pretty decent earnings and focusing on the negative.

Mike McGowan

We're in pretty decent shape as it relates to fuel supply, but who knows what's going to happen here in the next few days.

Ron Fellows

We started our session a little late and when we finally got out there, we got 'black-flagged' just before I was going to start my quick lap, ... Our guys have been working hard and that's a decent result for my first time out. I just want to thank Paul.

Jean Nidetch

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

Charles Schumer

Tom Ridge is a decent man and a fine public servant, but unfortunately was not given the leeway or resources to tighten up homeland security in the way it should be done,

Webb Brown

We know we have good Montana products here that can be delivered all over the world. We're now trying to provide the resources and the direction, even the philosophy of 'trade or die.' If we just keep passing around the same dollar here, it will wear out.

Dave Brailsford

UK Sport and the government have delivered and there can be no excuses now. There are not many nations in the world that have the same backing. It's scary because all the obstacles have been removed and there is nothing for us to hide behind.

Dominique Moisi

The one who has perhaps gained the most is the prime minister, who stood for the state and managed to deliver a message of firmness together with a message of openness to society.

Garth Tuck

The power is there. It's more than just a fad. It's a new medium to deliver content.

Paul House

We are proud of the strong quarter that we have delivered in our first reporting period as a public company.

Kip Petersen

We spent millions installing a modern water delivery system, sewage treatment facility and paved roads.

Mike Reed

We approached this as a must-win game because it solidifies our fifth seed in districts, and kept us in the second-half race if somehow God delivered some miracle and Halifax lost.

Jacques Rogge

We have no doubt that BOCOG will deliver in a splendid way.

Alexa Vega

If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.

Bobby Moynihan

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

Larry Young

When the market is moving, it's like a magnet that draws money and traders to it.

Tom Collen

She's the focal point. She draws a lot of attention. But she needs to look to herself as a focal point. Her numbers are starting to come back up.

Debbie Merrill

Jessica is such a great player and draws so much attention, I was just wide open underneath and I just laid it up.

Corin Tucker

I think the B-52's were a huge influence on Sleater-Kinney. The way that there'd be a really interesting guitar line that'd be really melodic and kind of simplistic, I really related to that. The sense of melody is really intense and fun. It's not just traditional song structures, but it's very melodic and draws you in, in kind of an immediate way.

Proverbs

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Rick Adelman

He has a quality about him that draws other guys into it -- the way they play, the effort they put on. He's always pushing. He's pushing the younger guys, saying, 'That's not good enough.' When a guy says that and then goes out on the floor and does it, it has an impact.

Glen Murray

He doesn't really shoot a lot. He can score, there's no question about it, but he likes to pass. He likes to hold on to the puck because he's so big and strong. He's so great with the puck that I just have to find the holes because he draws a lot of attention. He could score 40 or 50, but he likes to pass a lot more.

Tim McAfee

He draws a salary and does not work.

Danger Mouse

When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.

David Esquer

We've always known that it's gonna happen. We just hoped it would happen while he was here. Because, he's just too skilled.

Dennis Allen

We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes.

Judy Gold

Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, 'Oh, I'm not gonna vote,' I just wanna tear their heart out.

Juicy J

When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a good record, but I never knew it was gonna be a hit.

Tom Hanks

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

Bill Withers

When I look at you And the world's all right with me Just one look at you And I know it's gonna be A lovely day.

June Daugherty

She's a key factor. It's gonna be real important she understands the scouting report on each one of them, because she'll end up on each one at some point in the game. And she's got to handle their pressure.

Helen Marshall

The place where they're planning to put the stadium is a place that needs rehabilitation and it's gonna be tough for us to get the money to do that, ... This way, we will have something that's positive here.

Charlie Daniels

I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you something, these kids, they're the best we've got. They're the best Americans, they're the most loyal Americans we've got. And we owe them when they come back.

Charles de Lint

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Jeff Horvath

The other team saw all of our players leave and maybe that lulled them to sleep.

Sian Jones

The people who lived here couldn't leave it.

Catherine Bell

We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Jessalyn Gilsig

It's much more fun to be the person who comes into the room and lights the match. I get to be the force, the girl who always says or does something completely outrageous, and leaves everyone thinking, 'What was that?'

Jon Nettleton

We'd like to be here when it's all said and done. We'd obviously like to come back and leave it all on this floor.

Ariel Sharon

working document... not a take it or leave it document.

Elbert Higginbotham

We're from Arizona. The No. 1 rule is never, never leave your vehicle.

Ayn Rand

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Leroy Hill

We know he has a big job. He's got to get the calls, give them to us and line us up. But we still like to mess with him. Like, after awhile, we get tired and we don't want to huddle anymore. He'll get mad and start fussing at everybody.

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Mark Young

The power line was burning, but they got over to it and got it put out.

Kevin Hamilton

The reason for that is if there is a strike, you want to be 1st in line to take whatever Northwest offers as a possible option.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Keith Primeau

We're not going to survive with one line scoring goals. We need to get offense from other places.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

John Roberts

This would be shocking even in a Third World country.

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Maria Semple

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Jim Goetz

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

Ann Marsh

It?s shocking to the family, it?s shocking to the friends.

Phil McNichol

It was shocking today. I just wish it was shocking in the other direction.

Timothy Sr

It is very shocking because it is a very close-knit neighborhood.

Michael Nicosia

This is shocking to me, I thought we'd be up.

Jane Smiley

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

Charles Dickens

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Lee Kreindler

It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Jared Leto

We want to play whatever you want to hear. We're here for you, Toledo.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Stephen Graham Jones

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it. I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it, ... I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Keke Palmer

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.