Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ren Ng

We have seen amazing, creative and interactive pictures from camera owners, and I'm looking forward to the Lytro camera being available in Australia.

Catherine Gleason

We want people to be aware of this period in our country's history. As generations move away from the WPA era, people forget this wonderful program and the beautiful art that came out of it. We want to give visitors a sense of the history and understanding of this tremendous program put in place to create these amazing pieces of visual artwork.

Jane Krakowski

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

Steve Fiser

The fact he didn't come out until his sophomore year makes this a really amazing win. Daniel is the hardest working kid I have ever had since becoming the coach here. I can promise you he is in the best shape of anyone in the building and that showed tonight.

Matt Damon

The real Brothers Grimm were scholars; they were these amazing heroes in Germany who discovered this folklore and shone a light on it, and made Germans proud of their heritage,

Ann Nocenti

There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.

Lindsay Williams

When I didn't make the team to go to state that year and I was watching the race from the woods and it was just amazing and I thought I want to be fast, I want to be competitive, I want to hopefully win it, so then I trained all summer and won it next year and that was cool.

Carl Hagelin

When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

Darby Stanchfield

When I met Oprah, the first thing I thought was, 'She is the most amazing hugger ever.'

Aaron Rowand

My friends who knew me in high school and college know I'm the same person. It's a high compliment to be thought of highly. People who know me know I'm fun-loving, carefree and happy to get paid to do what I do. I feel lucky to be where I'm at. Some people feel like they deserve to be here, instead of lucky to be here. That's never been me, and I don't think it will ever be. I enjoy getting down and dirty with any regular Joe.

Imelda Staunton

I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.

Gillian Zinser

I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others perceive them.

Gary Carr

I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

O. Singh

He is not troubled by anxiety, the carefree Lord comes to dwell in the mind.

Raf Simons

L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.

Richard Dieter

It's just an unsolvable kind of problem. We're never going to have a carefree system of painless executions.

Niall Horan

I'm the most carefree, happy person you'll meet.

Walter Hagen

It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.

Aasif Mandvi

For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

Alan Shearer

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

Joseph Califano

The fact that so many dads are AWOL (absent) in their teens' lives increases the teens' risk of substance abuse,

Meghan Trainor

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

Shameik Moore

When I was 12, my dad took me to see 'You Got Served.' I walked out a whole different person.

Sharon Stone

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Tyler Ritter

I really got to see my dad enjoy every day that he was working. Everybody should be able to have this much fun when they go to work.

Tristan MacManus

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Eid Kabalu

We have no confirmation (of their presence in Mindanao). As far as the MILF is concerned, there have been no sightings. We have no personal knowledge that they are here,

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Greg Gilchrist

When you're winning, you don't have to make excuses, or when you're losing, you shouldn't come up with any, either. As far as I'm concerned, we just got outrun today.

William H. Macy

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Bob Grantham

We want our property tax rates lowered significantly and substantially and meaningfully. So far we have not seen anything in that direction.

David Jones

We want it (the fire) far enough out and in an open spot.

Mats Sundin

We were back on our heels far too much.

Tony Woody

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Carol Leifer

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Carol Leifer

It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

Carlos Delgado

If you can't smile and have fun, you're in trouble. So if somebody in the stands says hello, I'm going to say hello back. Why shouldn't I? I know what I'm doing in this game. I'm still going to be ready to hit when I step in the box.

Carlos Delgado

Work is not a drag for me. I like to get here early, hang out, catch up with the boys. I'll go in the cage and hit, do my exercises. I try to keep it fun and find ways to enjoy it.

Carlos Mencia

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

Carl Bernstein

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.

The Weeknd

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

A. S. Byatt

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

Tyler Ritter

I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other.

Todrick Hall

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

David Giuntoli

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Elton John

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

Tom Whalen

We've still got a long way to go, and there's a lot we can improve on, but any time you get a shutout, you have to be happy with it.

Joe Cole

When I'm playing regularly, I feel happy and that's when I get my strength and power to go past someone, which is so important to me,

Brian Wilson

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

Brian Wilson

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

Booth Tarkington

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Doyle Geddes

Ultimately, we were very happy with the second half.

Byron Katie

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Buddy Valastro

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

Jane Seymour

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Carol Vorderman

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

Carol Vorderman

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carlos Mencia

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

Carlos Ghosn

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

C. S. Lewis

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Tommy Amaker

We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.

John W. Thompson

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.

Jim Allen

When your kids get on a bus, you want...

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Chadwick Boseman

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.

Mike Birbiglia

When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.

Louis Menand

When I met him, I didn't feel a particular warmth toward him.

Charna Halpern

When I met Del, I was doing these theater-sports type things, ... But I was very bored, and I said to Del, 'There's got to be something more than just games.' And he said, 'Well, you're not such a twit after all.'

Thomas Gray

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thom Mayne

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Art Johnson

The point is, the Legislature has not met its constitutional requirements.

Nolan Sotillo

I met Victoria Justice once. She was so nice. I've always been a fan.

Agnes Smedley

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles de Gaulle

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Maribel Lopez

The reality is, this is where the money is at.

Conor McGregor

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Tim Tebow

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Khloe Kardashian

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

David Berry

She makes me have fun. I don't even realize I'm learning, but I am,

Bob Elek

We are getting better the more we work on this. We realize we have a lot of work going on out there.

Burmese Proverb

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

Tim Ferguson

But we didn't realize that it was going to be that temporary.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Jason Aldean

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Eckhart Tolle

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

Bruce Springsteen

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

C. L. R. James

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.