Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Manilow

I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

Bill Dixon

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

Bill Condon

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

Bijou Phillips

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel. It moves you - the bass literally shakes you and rocks you from the inside. Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it. It's not air, it's not wind, it's not anything like that. It's solid. It's thick. It's like summertime in New York.

Big Sean

It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes.

CC Sabathia

Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

Carrie Fisher

I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.

Carrie Underwood

I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa, than hailing cabs here in New York.

Carl Paladino

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

Chris Frantz

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

Alain de Botton

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Elizabeth Bishop

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

Delia Smith

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Cindy Crawford

I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name a few. Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

Chuck Palahniuk

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Amy Grant

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Antonio Tabucchi

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Ashton Kutcher

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

Arsene Wenger

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

Benjamin Disraeli

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

Catherine Martin

If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.

David J. Anderson

Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.

Dick Thornburgh

Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Albert Einstein

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.