Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Bloom

I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.

Leah Crowley

Will they get down on the floor and play? Do they have the patience to paint, read and color with them? Before you know it, they are turning 12, babysitter trained and certified and eager to work!

Nina Delivers

Once we had children we realized that someone had to raise them we didn't want to depend on someone like the daycare or babysitter to raise them. Who could teach our children better than us?

Eric Spacek

At a parents' night out, a teenage babysitter at church was not being watched. He took an 8-year-old boy outside and fondled him.

Jo Stafford

I never thought about 'Who is Jo Stafford?' She just is. Jo Stafford is a lot of different people. She was a singer. Now, she's a dedicated grandmother: Cheapest Babysitter in Southern California.

Ivana Trump

I would rather be a babysitter than a nursemaid

Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter.

Paul Giamatti

The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast.

Cathy Johnson

We stayed up late the night it was voted on and I called down here to the bartender on shift and said, 'Oh my god! It's passed! From that moment on we lost a bunch of customers.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

Quentin Crisp

If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Larry McMurtry

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

John Suchy

There were open containers of liquor in the bar. There was a bartender behind the bar. Several people were sitting at the bar and several people were walking around the bar.

Pauley Perrette

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.

Brian Wansink

People say, 'Oh, the bartender knows what he's doing.' Well, the bartender does know what he's doing in a lot of cases, but he falls victim to these illusions.

Ernest Rutherford

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

George Herbert

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.

Jerry Rice

My hat goes off to Drew and Cheryl. It's well-deserved.

Tom Izzo

I don't think I can be harder on Drew than Drew is on Drew.

David Ware

If ballplayers were women, Drew Rosenhaus would be a pimp.

Dick Vermeil

I hand drew all of them with a template.

George Lois

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.

Gail Carson Levine

I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

Nolan Bushnell

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.

Deryn Brace

When they drew at our ground early in the season, I was impressed with them. It was one of the few games we didn't look like winning.

Shawn Garrett

Obviously we'd have liked to come here and win it the first time out. We shake it off and get ready for tomorrow.

Mary Matalin

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

Cheryl Tiegs

My father's name is Theodore, but that - it's always - I've always liked the name Theodore. I read a lot. It's in a lot of literature.

Bill Cowher

No, I kind of liked the ones he's had,

Stan Cliburn

Naturally, this wasn't the way we wanted to start. We would have liked to have put on a better show.

Kacy Catanzaro

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

Sami Abdulbari

One of the Clarksville d-lineman told me to keep it up. He liked the enthusiasm.

Luis Castillo

I would have liked to stay; I would have liked at least another year.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Justin Kirk

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Lisa Bonet

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

Source Unknown

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Rachel Boston

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Rafael Palmeiro

I wouldn't think so. I mean, that's why I got it from him. I didn't suspect that he would be on anything.

Tom Rosenstiel

Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.

Will Tudor

I very much enjoy things like '24,' although I suspect that's run its course.

Geraldine McCaughrean

You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Michael Boss

I would suspect we'll go out with a whimper.

Joe Roberts

I suspect we?ll see him in the top 10 for some time to come, and he?ll probably be at the top of the list.

Brad Bankston

I suspect this is something that will work in the future.

Kitty Lagareta

I suspect they'll go forward. I know how they feel about David.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Albert Schweitzer

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Eileen Caddy

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, know Him as the True Guru, who unites all with the Lord.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Jane Siberry

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

Jay Leno

All I ask is that you tip your waiters and waitresses. We have to turn this situation around.

Jessica Lange

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.