Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Maiara Walsh

My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

Linda Wallace

Like any vibrant economy, the house prices have gone up. But more than that, we're facing a bit of a housing crunch.

Chris Vance

Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

I. Stone

Life is too short to be really bitter about anything for so long. Sometimes, you have to turn the page. After all, he found a great career in Houston, and he made the Hall of Fame. He should get on with his life.

Jennifer Saunders

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Stephen Ames

Life is a bit easier not worrying about the future of where the family is going to be or what is happening in the future.

Kevin Kodama

Luckily, the north side got a bit of a break last night.

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Donna Favors

Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.

Rick Johnson

Loving, vital, caring and diverse, with differences of opinion that are often strong. We continue to have a vital strong, worshiping, faith-based community.

Edgar Mitchell

The ancient traditions, even Christianity, say God is Love. There is symmetry here. The fundamental step where you get into this transcendent state is this feeling of ebullience, love and caring and unity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

Chris Kelly

If anything, Convalescent Transports' 250 employees are guilty of caring about the conditions of the patients,

Ed McMahon

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Aaron Broussard

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

Aaron Eckhart

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

Rohit Shetty

There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will give it one-and-a-half star rating. That's fine. There's no issue because stars will matter when I'm planning to open a five star hotel. When I'm making films, I don't need stars.

Lord Chesterfield

Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing

Warren Littlefield

My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

Tennessee Williams

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

Jack Rosen

Now you have an Iraq war that Americans are turning against, and you have people saying it's all a Jewish conspiracy. But look at President Clinton's team: You had many Jews who aggressively pushed for peace in the Middle East. But these same critics don't see this as part of the same conspiracy.

Twyla Tharp

Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.

Barbra Streisand

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched A Star Is Born, he talked back to the screen.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Per Petterson

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you can see now.

Marc Rotenberg

We're not big fans for the posting of privacy policies because what is much more important is privacy practice.

Gary Bettman

Like all fans, we're thrilled that we're back and that the game is doing as well on the ice in terms of entertainment, excitement, speed and skill. And that our fans have been receptive.

Lance Armstrong

Luckily the fans saw through these (doping) allegations.

Mark Sanchez

'Luchadores, mil mascaras'... a thousand masks. I see a lot of those in Jets colors. And then the Hispanic fans of other teams, they'll wear them in their colors. And they're like, 'You're our guy, Sanchez, but I'm a Steelers fan.'

Mike Tice

Look, when you go to some stadiums, it's so deafening that you can't hear. When you have 15,000-20,000 of the opponent's fans in there, it's not deafening. There is a difference. The fans that were there were great. But it wasn't like a big game when it's just your guys in there.

Simon Cowell

Look, she doesn't need to thank me and she doesn't need to thank American Idol. She does need to thank the fans who voted for her on American Idol. That's all.

Elaine Elliott

My kids are great kids. I would think the Lobo fans would support us because we are from the same conference.

Jaromir Jagr

One positive thing is we don't have to travel very far. Maybe our fans will be in the building. Maybe it will feel like seven home games. It's good for hockey and it's good for New York. More people are going to get interested in the playoffs.

John Bunting

Obviously when you get into the season, the fans are taking it one game at a time, too. But all of a sudden, here it is. Here it is.

Sloane Stephens

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.

Carol Bellamy

We still have to learn the lesson of the grip poverty has,

Gary Clausen

Joey will be ready to play. He's a tough kid. The hand might be a little tender for a while and it could give him a little trouble when he grips the bat, but it's not broken. And it's not his pitching hand.

Valentino Rossi

We made some modifications in order to improve the acceleration and unfortunately we lost a lot of grip in braking.

Richard Bilotti

Warner has to come to grips on its spending. They don't need all that to open a film when Wal-Mart is more important.

Tony Crescenzi

The Treasury market has come to grips with the notion that stocks have recovered,

Aaron Small

Mel taught me a new grip on my sinker in spring training, and I've used it all year, ... It has really helped me.

Elliott Sadler

I'm kind of scared on how much grip is out there right now. It's too much grip for this racetrack. I liked it better two years ago when you slid around a lot.

Elliott Sadler

I'm kind of scared on how much grip is out there right now, ... It's too much grip for this racetrack. I liked it better two years ago when you slid around a lot.

Derrick Johnson

Loosen up people. Take the suit and tie off and loosen up.

Tony Foti

She couldn't even work through it. She'd try to loosen up and stretch it out, but couldn't. And no question, her numbers would be even better.

Dave Hansen

It's all about speed and maintaining it. You loosen the mainsail going downwind and try to turn it into a spinnaker.

Don Cherry

You're right. It was loosening up until two weeks ago and then the order must have come down 'don't loosen up' and then they started all over again. They've tightened right up again.

Jim Rhodes

Everyone has a story to tell. You just have to loosen up and tell it.

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Karel Bruckner

I can tell you that the starting lineup will be very different this time.

Kevin McHale

Getting Marko was something we really wanted to do. It's all starting to come together.

Herman Edwards

If we had to play tomorrow, ... Kingsbury would be our starting quarterback.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Dan McCarney

I don't know who the starting kicker's going to be.

Jonathan Taylor

Tribes are starting to make it on their own.

Aaron Levie

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.