Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Crutcher

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

Chris Evans

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

Charles Spurgeon

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Diane Kruger

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

Dennis Ritchie

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

Dennis Prager

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Debra Wilson

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Elbert Hubbard

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Diablo Cody

I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

Denis Leary

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

Diana DeGarmo

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

Billy Joel

I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Billy Bob Thornton

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

Kevin Corrigan

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

Tim Russert

Of course, if he had a wife he would say, 'Honey, you're lucky to have me.'

Tom Hansen

Now we just have to get lucky for a year or two.

Megan Kelley

Obviously, I'm so lucky, I'm very lucky my son wasn't in the car.

Diane Keaton

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Debra Messing

It was hard to find somebody who could juggle both. And so we were really just focusing more on that. We figured, okay, if we're lucky enough to find somebody then, you know, the audience will get over it in one episode.

Debra Messing

You can't control chemistry. You can't control, you know, just similar aesthetics creatively. And, you know, David and I didn't know each other prior to this. And we get along famously. So it's - I feel very lucky.

Aubrey Huff

From what I've been told, I got pretty lucky with this.

Andrew Brunette

I wish I could say I anticipated the puck, but I got a lucky bounce.

Alan Dawson

I work Monday through Thursday, and have Fridays off. Lucky me.