Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cary Grant

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Aimee Bender

I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

Joel Madden

We always go the French Quarter and watch the same little kids who tap dance with bottle caps on their shoes, ... When I saw this on the news, my first thought was, 'Man, I hope those kids are all right.'

Karl Malone

We were totally self-contained with our own food and everything. We didn't want to take even one bottle of water away from these people. When we told them we were doing this for free, they looked at us like we were crazy or something.

Alan Sugar

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

Paul Heath

We're going to keep that portion of this bottle that we know we're going to have to keep with us forever. And from time to time, ladies and gentleman, you may want to fill your bottle back up, because you're life may be filled up with grief. But you can then take out that bottle and pour it out on any living thing.

Boyle Roche

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

Boyle Roche

A quart bottle should hold a quart.

Alexandre Dumas

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Bryce Courtenay

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

Catherynne M. Valente

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

Joe Cutts

There are some excellent city shops, but watch out for the big box stores where guy selling you skis today is moving onto patio furniture next month.

Jim Foster

We stopped being a sieve on the glass. We started to take responsibility for boxing out.

Mike Butters

We spent some time in the box early on. We didn't have a good first period, but we made up for it in the second and third.

Holly Holm

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

Helen George

I buy things through the ShopStyle app on my phone, then have them delivered to a neighbour so Oliver doesn't see them arrive. When he's out, I collect them, cut off the labels, and bury them deep in the recycling box under the wine bottles.

Louis C. K.

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

Louis C. K.

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.

Donald Tusk

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

Elizabeth Bowen

nothing is more restful than conformity.

Rebel Wilson

I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.

Hattie Morahan

There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.

Adam Lambert

Conforming is not cool.

Ty Segall

There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Aimee Teegarden

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

Tom Nalen

He's a great player. Any team would be happy to have him. I think he'd do well here. With this locker room, I think he would conform to our standards and fit in well here.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Charles Dickens

When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Dickens

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

Charles Dickens

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Pete Summerbell

We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

Andre Cook

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

Rick Cornett

We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.

Romeo Miller

I feel nobody has limits. It's all in your head. If you have a big dream, go after it and go get it.

Rory Bremner

I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Steve Ross

The position of the state is the state owns the trademark rights.

Charles Roven

The point is that the studio owns the franchise, and they can do without any of us,

Jim Thorpe

Yeah, but Hale owns that place over there.

Ranbir Kapoor

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

Warren Buffett

Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion US more of us than we own of them.

Debbie Brown

They are saying that I'm not the person who owns the apartment. Other tenants have had to do the same. They like to harass people.

Ozzie Guillen

That's OK. We'll see who owns the town now. Dusty, I don't like what he said. I thought we were friends.

Susan Vreeland

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

Raph Koster

It's about who owns the servers. The servers that store your metrics. The servers that shout the ads. The servers that transmit your chat. The servers that geofence your every movement.

Casey Abrams

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Bob Mould

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Elizabeth Olsen

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Chad Smith

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Cher Lloyd

I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.

Charles Ives

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Bob Black

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Bill Laswell

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Beth Gibbons

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Ron Wood

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Carine Roitfeld

When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.

Frederick Pollock

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

Michael Kors

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

Ira Glass

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Samira Wiley

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

Ringo Starr

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.