Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

David Tang

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Caitlin Thomas

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

David Baron

We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Athol Fugard

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Chaim Potok

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

Benjamin Franklin

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Benjamin Franklin

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Michael Steele

My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Jim Calhoun

The only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the standings is the young kids. Providence is talented but they're young. Young teams make mistakes.

Paul Woods

The potential is there and with a bit of luck we could finish in the top four. There are two or three programs that are traditionally strong and the final one or two spots are usually up for grabs.

Mark Zandi

The potential for even higher energy prices is a risk to the economic outlook. The economy has digested the higher prices gracefully so far. But it can get a bit of indigestion if prices move higher.

Pat Sullivan

The people who were here tonight now have an idea of the talent you see at the NAIA National Tournament. This team is every bit as talented as what you see at the nationals. In fact, if this had been 20 years ago when the NAIA had 600 teams, this team could have won it.

Winifred Creamer

The people who built the first of these structures had no model to go by, no precedent to use in building a monument. It's a bit like deciding to build a functioning spaceship in your back yard, and succeeding.

Mike Hathaway

We've always been a little bit wide open anyway, but with Chris out, it kind of forced us to throw more.

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Nikki Cox

Filming scenes like that are always odd but I feel comfortable with Josh and care about him a great deal, so it could be much worse. Scenes like that are just part of the job.

Fionnula Flanagan

We had a wild night out with them in Wilmington (North Carolina, where filming took place).

Kevin Spacey

She found a kind of possession of this role, ... There were moments during filming that I was just startled at where she was going.

Peter Sarsgaard

When I finished filming and I flew back home to Australia, I really did not want to take that 14-hour flight.

H. Hart

Losing all that weight really does mess up your metabolism up. After we finished filming I put on a stone in less than a week. That's not normal.

Brett Kelly

Filming 'Bad Santa' was really where I learned everything that I knew at that point about movies. That was really the first big thing that I had done.

Emilia Fox

I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre.

Liam James

A local newspaper where we were filming in Boston called me the Justin Bieber of Canada. I don't think they realized Justin Bieber is from Canada. I hope someday I can just be the Liam James of Canada.

Reggie Miller

We start filming on October 5th in New York. We've got a great cast. 'Beautiful Ohio,' is the name of it. William Hurt and Rita Wilson are the stars.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

Bob Odenkirk

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Deb Caletti

Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.

Rick Vaughn

Whenever things like this pop up, we try to be there.

Beau Bridges

Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.

Denis Waitley

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Avril Lavigne

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.

Bret Harte

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

L'Wren Scott

I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

Dennis Quaid

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Natalie Gulbis

She grinds. She just sticks to her routine.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Dave Ramsey

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

Sam Reed

We were supposed to get it the first of December.

Mike Radke

We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.

Robert Wilson

I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.

E. Hicks

She was able to make some shots. That's what she is supposed to do.

Mike Landry

She's a player. You watch her play and you say, 'That's how the game's supposed to be played.

Common

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.

Francine Prose

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Rich Jordan

We did what we were supposed to do, but we are not where we are going to be. We are going to be better.

Pig Miller

We did what we were supposed to do and now we've got to come back and try to win it.

Gary Sinise

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Gavin Hood

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

Tracy McMillan

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.

e. e. cummings

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

Douglas MacArthur

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Dorothy Richardson

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Richard Garnett

He was a follower. He got tricked easily.

Cassie Desmone

He managed his way through a lot of tricky holes.

James Rota

There are no tricks with us. What you see is what you get.

Andrew Williams

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

Chuck Palahniuk

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

Cyril Connolly

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

Holly Black

Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

Henry David Thoreau

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

Jean Racine

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

George Herbert

He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

Jean Cocteau

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

Jim Jarmusch

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.