Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

Charles Williams

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Bob Dylan

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

Anderson Cooper

We heard church bells ringing. We heard people yelling, screaming, clapping. A friend of one of the miners came over, crying, to tell us that he had heard and just been told in the church that 12 of them (miners) had been found alive.

Kamala Harris

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

Elizabeth Gaskell

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)

LeVar Burton

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

Mary Neubauer

Obviously, the machines are big and fancy and there are bells and whistles. But they're just a fancy way of dispensing tickets.

Pat Brogan

Fundamentals for the Bells are going to continue to deteriorate over the next couple of quarters.

Kin Hubbard

Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion

William F. Buckley, Jr.

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

Ira Glass

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

ASAP Rocky

I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.

Michael Chitwood

I hate to sound corny when I use the word but -- where my roots are,

Annette Funicello

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

Brian P. Cleary

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

Taye Diggs

As corny as it sounds, this is really a fantasy come true,

Katie Couric

After listening to my heart and my gut, two things that have served me pretty well in the past, I've decided I'll be leaving 'Today' at the end of May. ... It may sound kind of corny but I really feel that we've become friends through the years.

John Doe

Prior to that, it was probably more often thought of as that old fuddy-duddy music, that corny old stuff. What we do is corny, too, but it's fun to do. And just because something is corny doesn't mean it doesn't have meaning or significance.

David Anaya

It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days.