Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

C. S. Lewis

Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

Mark Twain

We have nine children now half boys and half girls.

Mark Jackson

We have never won the national title. There will be some good teams there and it will be hard. The boys had a couple of days off after the Auckland final but are now back into training.

Gloria Smith

We want our students to be A students and we know they can do it. There are special items for B students such as bracelets and things for boys like fire trucks and chess sets.

Aaron Sorkin

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,

Alan Trammell

I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.

Charles Dudley Warner

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Ron Reichle

We have to go out now and win our last two games. I think our girls are playing a little nervous the last two games. We just have to go out and relax and play basketball. We're thinking too much rather than just playing.

Lauren Pittman

We were at our own school and watching all these other girls play for something that we had worked all season long for. That was a worse punishment than any kind of running or conditioning.

John Franceschi

We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the other girls need to step up.

Helen Dixon

We have a younger group of girls in that event. Jenna is the only senior and we have two juniors and a sophomore. Each is strong with specialty strokes. This is one of the stronger relay teams than we've had in the past.

Teyana Taylor

Kids can't look up to girls who are trying to be growner than they are.

Frank Busch

This was a special meet because these are a special group of girls. The seniors are very special to this team and it is going to be hard to let this group of girls go. I am so proud of this team, and this was a great end to a great season.

Edward Herrmann

I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

Cameron Russell

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

Kid Rock

When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

Robert Brown

We're still a youngish program. We're having to grassroots our tennis. We're laying the groundwork and being patient.

Steve Levy

We want to make this a grassroots effort.

William Greene

We're a grassroots organization. We're not funded by big donors. If we're sending 2 to 3 million e-mails a week, paying a penny per e-mail will price us out.

Roger Baldwin

With large numbers coming, we will support the grassroots organization within our normal programs.

John Linder

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

Ed Perlmutter

They are the heart and soul of their communities. It's grassroots politics at its best.

Tracey Anders

It will take a grassroots effort. The more small groups we can meet with, the better off we'll be.

Mark Rodgers

There's a heavy, heavy grassroots component. It's happening on a nationwide basis.

Robert Rich

This is a very grassroots movement. Most of my promoters are people like Allan who just want to help out.

Carol Shields

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

Carlos Beltran

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Carlos Beltran

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

Carlos Fuentes

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Kane Moix

We have so many things in our playbook that if a team thinks they have us scouted out, we'll just throw something else at them. We have a lot of ways to keep people on their toes. It can be hard to remember sometimes, but it's obvious it works.

Richard Farmer

When everyone knows everything is going right for a company, sentiment is hard to improve.

Janet Yellen

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Don Madden

When he'd tell you a joke, you'd have to laugh because he was laughing so hard.

C. S. Lewis

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

C. S. Lewis

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments)...

C. S. Lewis

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

George Shelley

We have sailboats, birds, pixies. They're decorative. They're a nicer look for your bottles.

Mike Jensen

Whenever you have something like that on your body, you just feel a little irregular. It'll be nice to feel regular.

Jeff Thompson

When everyone is working in their studios you don't really see what they are working on. So it's nice to see everything come together like this.

Curt Schilling

When you're young, you tend to do things like that because you want people to think you're a nice guy. At some point, I realized that I'm doing this not because I want people to think I'm a nice guy. I'm doing this because I think it's the right thing to do.

Nancy Norris

We want no stacks of paper, no boxes. We want all of our offices to have a nice crisp look.

Agnes Varda

It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

Jamar Butler

We wanted to throw the first punch and come out like we did.

Steve Yzerman

I don't know much about the techniques of fighting, but I know throwing a punch on skates is a lot different than throwing a punch from the ground.

Brian Metcalf

We knew. We didn't want that knockout punch to come.

Al Madrigal

I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

Frank Luntz

One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

Mike Lorello

He tends to remind me about that a lot. You just have to roll with the punches around here.

Efraim Levy

Signs in the marketplace are showing it is not having the punch that it once had,

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Sylvester Croom

There's not a day where he just comes out to punch a clock.

Jeff Bambule

We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to be ready.

Natalie Chanin

We have so many reasons to be here tonight. I'm also ready to do some shopping!

Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Jeremy Shockey

We know he's up there smiling, ... But in the same sense, he's probably saying, 'Get ready for San Francisco.'

Lee Johnson

We'd get the shack arranged, get it ready to pull, and would find more damage, ... They used every trick in the book, but they got it moved.

Charlaine Harris

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

David Richardson

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

Liane Balaban

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Brett Gardner

Be ready to hit; get good pitches to hit.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Carlos Mencia

When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.

Dino Brugioni

We have to get these to the White House.

Agnes Varda

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Alan Shearer

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

Alan Keyes

Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

Charlie Gonzalez

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

Charles de Lint

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.