Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Morelock

When it was taken out of the hands of African-Americans and put into the hands of racist white performers, the music and the instrument specifically took on a completely different form and behaved in a completely different function.

Stephen Amell

I would like to, in some capacity, observe how Tom Cruise goes about his business when it comes to making a movie and how he behaves on set and how he interacts with the crew because from everything that I've heard, it is the template for professionalism and just the way to conduct yourself as an actor.

Trinny Woodall

When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.

Charles Bronson

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

Karen Maitland

The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.

Laura Wade

I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

Katherine Ellison

There are changes in the brain (during pregnancy and early motherhood) ? concrete, measurable changes, and later, the way we think and behave is changed.

Herbert A. Simon

Human knowledge has been changing from the word 'go,' and people, in certain respects, behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

Madeline Albright

We have insisted that (North Korea) cease its long-range missile development, production and export program, ... We are at a critical juncture in our relations with Pyongyang. The choice is for the North to behave in a way that allows for a positive direction in our relations.

Claudia Tremaine

We want to reach certain people that need certain items. A lot of people are having a hard time and need some assistance.

John Brady

We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Jeff Bowden

We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.

Saddam Hussein

We have said with certainty that the embargo will not be lifted by a Security Council resolution but will corrode by itself,

Matthew Brown

We have to get the job done. We've got a certain time we've got to get LaSalle Street open, and we've got to hit that date.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job.

Rich Bowen

We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.

John Asher

We have no idea how those tickets got out there, but we certainly have no suspicion of any kind of internal source.

Bob Hill

We have no depth to play him, so we're just going to try to give him different looks. He's just so big, there are only certain things you can do.

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

John Scalzi

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

David Yalof

What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,

Larry Pleau

Peter's got a good feel for the puck in the offensive part of the game. He's a give-and-go player and he knows what to do with the puck. He's got good vision and he gets his stick on the puck. He's got some good anticipation. I think his skill dictates top two lines and that's where he'll get a lot of opportunity in those areas, and we'll see what he does with it.

Larry Pleau

Peter's got a good feel for the puck in the offensive part of the game, ... He's a give-and-go player and he knows what to do with the puck. He's got good vision and he gets his stick on the puck. He's got some good anticipation. I think his skill dictates top two lines and that's where he'll get a lot of opportunity in those areas, and we'll see what he does with it.

Doris Lessing

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

Rob Thomas

I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.

Gilbert Hernandez

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

Orson Welles

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Johnny Damon

We had opportunities; we just couldn't capitalize. That's the most aggravating thing about this game. When you're not hitting and scoring runs, it dictates how well your season goes.

George Burrows

We used to have a phone in the store and the fathers would phone and we kids would run down and take messages down to the Jewish families,

Dylan Thomas

Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.

Dave Barry

The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion.

Dave Barry

Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

Bruce Williams

Never love anything that can't love you back.

Candice Bergen

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

Judy Biggert

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Al Roker

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Chief Joseph

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

Dorothy Stukes

We are here so our voices can be heard, so our lives and our levees can be rebuilt, so we can go home.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Dan Ware

We're here to provide as much protection as possible. We're here to save lives first, and then do as much as we can to protect property.

Matt Blunt

worth it to protect the lives of Missouri children.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

Barbara Kingsolver

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Benjamin Spock

I really learned it all from mothers.

Bob Hope

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Amy Milliron

Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.

Edgar Allan Poe

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

Eddy Arnold

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Diane McColley

Occasionally, we'll get teenagers. Most are sewers. Some have mothers who sewed. The older people quilting now are doing it because they always wanted to quilt but never had the time.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Laura Wade

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Demetri Martin

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Carlos Fuentes

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

Carlos Castaneda

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Carl Guardino

Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

Carl Crawford

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

Agnes Repplier

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Agnes Repplier

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

Agnes Repplier

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Sebastian Seung

There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

Herman Edwards

There are a lot of ways you can do that, and that's why I'm not saying, ... I don't want to say anything at this point.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.