Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

Esha Gupta

I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don't party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I'm the most boring person at a party.

Chita Rivera

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Laurent Brancowitz

To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.

Brett Favre

I'm pretty boring really.

Barbara Hambly

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

Diana Vreeland

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.

Conor Maynard

I'm pretty boring with pizza toppings. I only ever eat margherita. If it's ever anything else then I'll just go 'mmm', pretend to eat it, then throw it in the bin.

Chris Cuomo

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

Lamont Bryant

We are going to sit down and re-evaluate his recruiting. Will he visit a fifth school? We aren't sure. But the Indiana situation is very unsettling. We don't want any distractions. We don't want any surprises.

Kristin Gore

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

Steve Peterson

We're still searching for our fifth and sixth man, but we're getting closer.

Ken Macha

When we were trying to pick a fifth starter back in camp, it was between Saarloos and Etherton, and we weren't quite sure which way we were leaning. So we went to Kendall, and he was adamant about Saarloos. That's what clinched it.

Mike Miller

When it comes down to it, you can't ever not want to win. So our job right now is to win as many games as possible, and if we're in that fifth spot, that's great, and we if we're in that sixth spot that's great, too.

Bobby Cox

Maybe we can slip him in as the fifth starter.

Clint Hurdle

Leaving a game in the fifth inning I wouldn't think would make any pitcher happy, ... Sometimes different things will motivate people different ways.

Jim Grobe

We're just kicking ourselves that we don't have a fifth year for him. We couldn't do it. We had to get him on the field.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Louis Zamperini

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Kourtney Kardashian

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

Kreayshawn

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

Michael Keaton

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Mike Davis

We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.

Eric Johnson

I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.

Gerald Wilson

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Quinton Young

We wanted to win the conference, and even though we didn't do that we still have a lot to prove. We're heading up there with a swagger.

Tommy Shaw

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Brian Eno

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Cherie Lunghi

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Al Goldman

The possessed kid in 'The Exorcist,' whose head spins around.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Beverly Cleary

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Beverly Cleary

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Kevin Fletcher

We wanted to be able to take a librarian and turn them into a project manager.

Erin Morgenstern

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

James Lee Burke

God bless the Reference Librarians

Libba Bray

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

Gloria Steinem

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Hal Sparks

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

Jennifer Chiaverini

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Alan Lewis

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

John Orton

We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies,

Brian Eno

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

David Amram

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Jane Asher

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

David Justice

This was a team that really loved each other. It's rare that you find a team that really pulls for each other, that really loves each other.

Gretchen Rubin

I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.

Kathryn Lasky

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

Robert Krulwich

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

Justin Timberlake

She had a passion for what she did, ... She loved to work and she loved to make music.

Ronald Williams

She really loved her neighbors there. She made a lot of friends there.

Angela Ross

She never complained about it. She loved those kids.

Linda Thompson

She loved to travel with me and my sister. If we called and said we were going anywhere, we had to take her along.

Patricia Bryant

She loved to talk to people; even people she didn't know.

C. Wright Mills

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Tracy Chevalier

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

Alan Ball

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Charlie Munger

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...

Bo Derek

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Eazy-E

Another murder I committed made the front page.

Bob Ehrlich

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

Brigitte Bardot

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

Agnetha Faltskog

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Jane Austen

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Ashley Greene

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

Brian Blessed

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

Charlie Munger

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Bob Newhart

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Ed Begley, Jr.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

Sandra Cisneros

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

David H. Murdock

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Bryan Ferry

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Jane Austen

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Jimmy Dean

We are going to shut it off at 33 or 34 teams. We still have room for individuals and for some teams.

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Edward Said

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Stephanie Zimbalist

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

David Alan Grier

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

Ezra Klein

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Brandi Chastain

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Dave Barry

In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.

Catherine Bell

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Jamie Moyer

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

Jasmine Tookes

I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.

Alan Moore

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

Alan Jackson

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

Charlaine Harris

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

Bruce Bochy

If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Brad Garlinghouse

Most turnarounds don’t turn.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.