Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Cory Doctorow

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Malorie Blackman

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

Malorie Blackman

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

Johann Kaspar

Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Emily Johnson

Let?s just say you?re not going to see these books at the public library.

Mary Kaufman

Libraries and books have always been a part of my life and have made a difference in my life. I have always had a passion for books, both reading and collecting.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Maureen Corrigan

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Jess Walter

Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book.

Gabrielle Giffords

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

Schuyler Fisk

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

Dan Gilroy

One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.

Carl Yankowski

Of course, one million compared with Palm's 15 million makes its own statement. Who do you want to party with?

John Phillips

My first impression, as compared to four years ago, is that there's a lot more stuff and more lab equipment here. Plus there's also been an accumulation of spare parts, as well as trash, that hasn't been able to come back.

Audrey Green

My efforts are nothing compared to what's being put in. It's just going to be a wonderful night for Art.

Brad Wilkerson

Montreal compared me to Rusty Greer when I was drafted. If I can do half as much as he did around here, it's going to be very special.

Mike Sherman

Obviously that's three too many penalties. We have to weigh the production of what (Whitticker) is doing compared to what he's giving up. Three pretty important penalties, so I have to consider that. Not to make excuses for a rookie, but he is doing some pretty good things. He knows his assignments, is a pretty physical player. I think he will continue to get better. That doesn't mean we're going to stay with him if this persists.

Evan Osnos

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

Atem Aleu

Many people died from no water and no food.

Jim Shaw

So he had his favorite meal, played a show and died in his sleep. We thought that's not too bad.

Bible Bible

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

Ama Dwimoh

Mommy! Mommy! She died at the hands of two people she called Mommy and Daddy.

George Felos

Mrs. Schiavo died a calm, peaceful and gentle death.

Tom Anderson

Obviously, we are very pleased. When the governor signs it, we hope to be done. This is a huge step for the memorial and for the firefighters, especially those who died in the line of duty.

Dean Wilson

More people have recognized me for that. It's died down now, I think. Anything that gets you recognized, I guess, is nice.

Robert Jeffress

More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition.

Robert Lacey

Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II.

Howard Shore

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

Kelly Butler

I have a sister who is Elizabeth. If my sister was waiting in traffic, she wouldn't say she waited for 40 minutes; she would say she waited for 42 minutes. I modeled Elizabeth after her.

Cindy Emfinger

I felt pretty good even when she got past Savannah because Michelle and Elizabeth and (goalie) were where they were supposed to be. (Roach) just made a nice play.

Charles Nelson Reilly

My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

Cate Blanchett

I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.

Peter Roskam

I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.

Teresa Medeiros

Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.

Sarah Addison Allen

I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Merry Clayton

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Sarah Hall

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

Bill Hader

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Andy Roddick

We all pick each other up. I've picked up James before and today he picked me up. That's' why it's called a team.

Pierce Brosnan

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

Heikki Kovalainen

I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them.

Gary Shteyngart

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

Erica White

One of the things we always wrestle with is trying to get parents to read to them at home. Time is a factor, and work schedules. A lot of them work at night.

Christopher Darden

My grandparents and parents urged me to go to school and do well in school so that at the end of the day I'd have options, choices.

Diane Paulus

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

Dennis Prager

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

Debra Winger

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Deana Carter

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

Dimitar Sasselov

My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.

Rep. Hogue

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

Eddie Vedder

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Jasmine Guy

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Anita Bryant

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Adrienne Rich

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

Fiona Apple

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

Catharine MacKinnon

If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

Erica Jong

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

Moises Alou

When things are like this, I swear to you, you play better as a team.

Leo Burnett

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Harry Potter

I solemnly swear I am up to no good.

Dane Cook

When you swear to God, its true ... right now God is watching and saying, this is true.

J. D. Salinger

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

Madonna Ciccone

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

Jennifer Lopez

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Irene Dunne

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Eugenia Blizzard

All her friends swear to me she didn't know him.

Dennis DesRosiers

We do not know if St. Thomas is on the list. Probably not. But who knows?

Vince Carter

I'm going to make Tim Thomas come here. So it doesn't matter. Only kidding.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Timothy Simons

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.

Joss Whedon

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

Patricia Bryant

She was there until the week before she died.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Michelle Wie

I didn't want to write anything on my scorecard until I made a birdie.

John Oates

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

Samuel L. Jackson

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Waite Hoyt

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.