Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Catherynne M. Valente

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Dorothy Allison

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

Julien Dray

When youths take to the street, you don't know what can happen ....

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Caroline Thompson

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

Cam Newton

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

Jaime Camil

The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

David Joyce

I like to think of myself as my own guy. I don't want to be labeled as a Tea Party guy, but I'm not necessarily against their agenda.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

John Abraham

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

Anton Corbijn

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

Brendan Morrison

When you're labeled as an offensive team and you don't do it, it's a little frustrating, but you just have to stay with it. It's one game, but it's a step in the right direction.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Kim Priez

While Mardi Gras may be smaller this year, the pageantry is not going to be lacking in any way.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Phillip Brown

With the lack of support there last night to stop the A&P tax, I don't see the need to do anything further.

Keke Palmer

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Kelly Rowan

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Tony Stewart

We're ready. I don't feel like we're lacking anything or waiting on anything.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Mark Shapiro

We lack upper-level, left-handed relief depth. (Heredia) could be a Major League alternative for us this year.

Charles Garfield

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

Knox Fuqua

The big tech stocks are still where you have to be but I don't want to go overweight tech,

Tim Albrecht

I am overweight chemicals, and I will stick with it.

Kirstie Alley

I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.

Roberta Flack

I've been overweight all my life.

Charles Caleb Colton

If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.

Charles Caleb Colton

Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style; and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage.

Charles Caleb Colton

No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

Charles Dickens

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.

Alanis Morissette

No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.

Alan Watts

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Alan Watts

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.