Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Stanley

Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places.

Dar Williams

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

Tristram Stuart

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.

Toni Jennings

We know you're running out to the gas station to fill up and fill up your cans for your generators. Please just remember your neighbor needs this just as well, ... Let's not overdo it. You need to do what you need to do, but there's no panic necessary here.

Beth McGinley

We did get a couple of things back. Some of it was in the truck and some of it was in a garbage can outside (of Valley Truck and Trailer) in the pouring-down rain. I actually had to dig through the garbage cans to get some things back.

John Tierney

Rinsing out tuna cans and tying up newspapers may make you feel virtuous, but recycling could be America's most wasteful activity.

Mari VanderWal

When I worked in Ames at the recycling center we had two containers - pop cans and two-liter bottles. Now we have seven different sizes in plastic, and they expect us to separate them all out. Do all of that on the same penny.

B. R. Hayden

and they're trying to open cans of food with a screw driver.

Corita Kent

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

Jill Lepore

One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.

Felix Sabates

Life is like a sandwich of sh*t and everyday you take a bite.

Dakota Fanning

No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.

Ryan Garko

My goal is to be an everyday player at the major league level. As much as I like catching, that was not going to happen as a catcher. So I'm all in favor of the switch.

Aaron Hill

No one's told me anything about that (being the everyday second baseman),

Don Morgan

Obviously mobility is important in the function of everyday society.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do something everyday that scares you,

Terrence Holt

I can't rest on my laurels or say that it looks like I'm going to be the starter, ... I still have to go out everyday and prove it.

Deepak Chopra

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Garry Houston

True gentlemen. I've had a very special time.

William Shakespeare

Unhand me, gentlemen,By heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

Alan Grayson

Ladies and gentlemen, we understand the big picture after three weeks of testimony. The big picture is greed.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, how can I get any sleep with so many conspiracies and plots? ... The truth is there are many things in this world that have nothing to do with the United States.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, How am I going to sleep with so many conspiracies and plots?

James Baker

Ladies and gentlemen, at some point -- at some point -- there must be closure,

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

Mary Green

We want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, he did it out of greed, to get stuff to sell for a little pocket change. You're going to hear the whole history of Joe Michael Luna.

Dave Murphy

We have a hard time keeping up with these older gentlemen.

Brian Riedl

Montana is getting more highway pork, but so is every other state.

Fritz Todt

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

Anthony Sanfilippo

Those barges you've seen on Highway 90? They're our casinos.

Robert Ingersoll

You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought

Rick Warren

What you see from the highway will be brick. It's going to be a pretty building.

Gerry Reid

We're operating snowplows in St. John's 24 hours a day. I don't why we couldn't do that on the main highway in our province.

M. Thompson

I think they should reduce the tax. I realize they use the money for highways, but our highways will be this way when we're long gone.

Anthony Foxx

People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

R. Robinson

Two mobile homes were demolished on (U.S.) Highway 70, ... and there was one injury in one of those mobile homes.

Kacey Musgraves

Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

William Ford

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies

Neil Innes

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

John Kasich

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

Don Hays

Ladies and Gentlemen, the wall-of-worry is being rebuilt strong and wide,

Dion Custis

(He) is not a cold-blooded murderer, ladies and gentlemen, he reacted. There was no thought process.

Nick Carter

What it is that he has that makes the ladies do what they just did?

Iris Apfel

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

Arthur Baer

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness

Johnny Knoxville

She threw up from soup on my shoes,

Bill Maher

You can't deny that religion has done some good. It organizes lots of anti-poverty programs and soup kitchens and missionary work. But I would say that, first of all, all those things can be accomplished without religion. You can be ethical, somebody who does the right thing without feeling that he has to in order to get his ass saved in the next life.

Elie Wiesel

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.

Ann Brashares

Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

Dan Harmon

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

Clive James

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

Dylan Moran

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

Elbert Hubbard

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Buddy Rich

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

David Duval

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Charlie Parker

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Charlie Sheen

Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.

Charles Krauthammer

For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

Mark Philippoussis

Obviously, I'll do whatever it takes to get back,

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Jack Toney

Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.