Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Sykes

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

Camille Paglia

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !

Bernie Mac

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

Cassandra Wilson

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

Chamique Holdsclaw

A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'

Diane Cilento

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

Djuna Barnes

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

Bob Edwards

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

Brad Pitt

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

David Cross

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

Carl Hiaasen

Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up.

Christopher Walken

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

Cleo Moore

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Dan Maffei

I was a very, very good congressman.

David Levithan

I have become very good at clearing histories.

Barry Manilow

QVC has been very good to me.

James St. James

So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.