Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry David

People have often wondered how they'd feel if they were adopted. I think it's funny.

Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words mank and ind. What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.

Susan Stroman

Mel has written 10 new songs, and they're very funny. It's a year and a half away from opening on Broadway.

Billy Corgan

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

Bill Shankly

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

Bill Engvall

He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

Bill Engvall

My son is 12 now, and is really getting into girls. A lot. But the thing about twelve year old boys is that they don't possess what I like to call that ... discretionary gene yet. We were walking home from the ballfield the other day and there was a woman walking towards us who was ... gifted. I saw them, and I saw him see them. But she was too close for me to go, "Dude, shut up." She hadn't walked two feet behind us and he goes "God dang, did you see the SIZE of those things?" And all I could say was "Yeah, I did!"

Bill Engvall

No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.

Bill Engvall

I thought "RV" stood for "Recreational Vehicle." No! It stands for "Ruins Vacations."

Tim Danson

Steve has indicated to me his progress has been slower than he would have liked. But he is very positive and optimistic and has every intention of getting better and resuming his NHL career.

O. Singh

It is not my intention to put people on tenterhooks but that is how it is because of the weather.

Ehud Barak

It is my intention to be everyone's prime minister. Whatever the differences of opinion between us, we are brothers,

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Dan Brooks

You have to find out everything you possibly can about what their intentions are so you can be prepared.

Gigi Brown

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Susan Hill

We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Rachel Platten

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Billy Collins

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

Mary Tavenner

We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Roger McGuinn

Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Rachel Platten

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Billy Collins

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Tony Johnson

We shifted because we didn't want them sold off individually. Then we could end up with absentee landlords.

Riley Nelson

Their whole team works hard, which is tough because you can't take a shift off.

David Barber

This is a very significant result, and it's not some sort of trend that's going to shift back the other way.

Jamie Russell

You have to give Wisconsin credit. I thought they outworked us shift in, shift out.

Marcel Dionne

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

Marty Turco

You play it one game, one shift at a time.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Carol Windley

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

Heather Mills

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

James Gray

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

Max Hastings

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.