Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Al Jardine

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

Al Jolson

California, here I come, right back where I started from.

Dave Foley

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.

David Pogue

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

Peter Galvin

The plight of California's natural environment is mirrored by the plight of the salamander, ... As the salamander loses its habitat, so too does California lose its precious oak woodlands, grasslands and vernal pools.

David Crane

We are pleased to be increasing our investment in California as the State has made progress with regard to capacity markets and long-term contracting options. As we've said, we will continue to pursue market development that supports the continued operations of existing plants that Californians need and investment in the next generation of energy infrastructure.

Ron Berkowitz

We're in California here, not in the bayou. We don't want any harm coming to Reggie. We want to capture him and move on.

Martin Jacques

The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.

Mark Klein

We are pretty confident everybody will be back tomorrow.

Chris Jones

We acknowledge they're a good team. But we know we have a good team, too. I feel confident about our chances.

Rob Dickson

We always have a Plan B, and we're working on a C and D. We are confident we're going to find someone. All the ingredients are here. It's just a matter of what lucky group will open the store.

Todd Wuerger

We want to qualify as many guys for state as we can. If we can do that, I'm confident that we can hold our taper for another week.

Dan Petrocelli

We have a story to tell, and we're looking forward to telling it and we're very confident how it's going to come out.

Kristen Kinley

We have a solution that fixes the problem, and we're confident that this is going to be the right remedy.

Nikki Green

We have a solid defense and a solid keeper. She made some great saves. I'm really confident in my keeper.

James Clarke

We have no evidence of feathers in this species. But there is evidence of feathers in another primitive tyrannosaur. We are fairly confident that it did have feathers.

Daniel Gaul

We want people to leave here after a session knowing they got a good workout, feeling confident and able to defend themselves.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Spurgeon

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

Al Roker

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Chris Metzger

We want the kids to take pride in the Lely brand. We preach family and Thursday night we were all together and we didn't have to worry about where they were.

Chris Cagle

She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

David Sedaris

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

David Morrissey

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Dave Barry

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

Buddy Guy

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

Cesare Lombroso

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Ricardo Alarcon

We are prepared to forget the past, to look towards the future and to accommodate ourselves with a new relationship with America.

Kurt Vonnegut

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.

John Fowles

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Chris Christie

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

Danny Granger

We still think (the series) is there to be won. We got one in Jersey earlier. We're still pretty confident.

Chris Christie

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

Ali Larter

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

Tammy Blanchard

I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

De'Shawn Singleton

I was scared at one point. There was one point where I was thinking about not even playing any more because if I go to Jersey City, I'm going to have to get a job.

Bradley Campbell

New Jersey stands ready to proceed with a seven-state agreement. This is going to go forward.

John Tortorella

New Jersey must be a very disciplined team considering all the time we spent in their end zone.

James Saxton

New Jersey is simply more vulnerable than most other states,

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Charles Spurgeon

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Alan Alda

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

Dave Barry

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.

David Sanborn

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

Bruce Wilkinson

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

Bryan Stevenson

Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.

Alan Guth

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

Alan Guth

The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science -- everything can be created from nothing...it is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Alan Greenspan

The free lunch has still to be invented.

Charles Krauthammer

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.

Denzel Washington

When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe.In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California.here's been a tremendous amount of change.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

Charles M. Schwab

If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.

Bill Maher

You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Jose DaCosta

We made an adjustment. Usually we play with one forward. We moved a second player up.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Kym Whitley

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

Louis Bolden

Some motorists are moved to tears and others stop to chat.

Joan Johnson

She didn't want to be moved anymore, ... She said she wanted to stay here, and she didn't want to go back home.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Joseph Pusateri

We were always taking a back seat to him.

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

Lyle Lovett

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

Megan Challender

My seat will be empty. I'm non-violently protesting.

Dan Rather

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Ai Weiwei

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Beyonce Knowles

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

Deepak Chopra

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Edward Gibbon

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

Edward Gibbon

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Ed Sheeran

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Kristin Turk

I didn't really think I'd be that big of a scorer until my sophomore year. And I really didn't think it would come to this extent.

Ted Purdy

I wish they wouldn't give the Nationwide Tour any points. Because it kills us when we start making (PGA Tour) points. It's like a sophomore curse.

Ted Purdy

I wish they wouldn't give the Nationwide Tour any points, ... Because it kills us when we start making (PGA Tour) points. It's like a sophomore curse.

Cheryl Parsons

Todd's just a sophomore but was actually on the stage as a 10-year-old when we did the Titanic.

Dave Holmes

That's super for a 15-year-old sophomore in her first trip down here,

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Charles Lamb

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

Brene Brown

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

Dick Wolf

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

Debra Messing

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking.

Craig David

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life...

Larry Starkey

We don't know why she was walking or where she was going.

Souza

We don't know who's walking around out there with Barrett's that we need to watch,

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.