Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

Alan Bradley

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Al Sharpton

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Caroline Kennedy

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

Bob Ulrich

We are pleased with our performance during this year's holiday season and remain comfortable with our outlook for the year overall.

Charlie Adam

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

Betty Who

I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.

Earl Wilson

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

Denis Norden

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

Hans Blix

There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.

Benjamin Tal

So I will not be surprised to see consumption of other items going down, like people taking less vacations, spending less on furniture, or any other items that are non-essential.

Robert Baird

We've been working on this for years, ... It's not going to be fail-proof. It's going to take some time to get items in order, but the system works well in the states that have it.

John Morse

None of these items should have come as a surprise to anyone.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I live about 60 miles northwest of New York City, and whenever there's news of a big snowstorm coming, everyone runs for the store. The perishable items are usually the first things to go, which doesn't make sense because they perish.

Lindy Urso

Whatever they're looking for is not in there. He doesn't have any of those items any where. I'm not at all concerned. I know none of the items they were looking for are in Carlos' possession.

Pat Joyner

He'd order 40 to 50 of these items at a time.

Matthew Brown

We sell items on eBay. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Adam Allen

When you think of all the teams and we're the only two left in 4A, it's unreal. To be one of those two teams ... it's awesome.

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Nathan Parsons

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

Robin Williams

What's right is what's left when everything is wrong.

William Mitchell

What's left is his, ... So, the man isn't getting rich.

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Anne Campbell

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Giselle Davies

Nothing is back yet. The IOC has not received the results.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Tasneem Ahmed

We are awaiting New Delhi's response on it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Larry Steach

When this all started, I didn't know what to expect. But, the response has been phenomenal.

Shaukat Aziz

We are satisfied with the response but we want more,

William Shawcross

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Jeff Koenings

My first response --- shock and awe. It's like, Where did this come from?

Jesse Cole

We did not get any response with that either.

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Fourier

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

BeBe Winans

I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Philip Schiller

We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.

A. S. Byatt

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Carol Windley

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Michael Hein

I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Bing Crosby

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Bill Monroe

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.