Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Sugar

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Caitlin Kittredge

How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck?

Jase Robertson

If you’re too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you’re too busy.

Jase Robertson

Go to where the ducks are. Forget the duck calls. If you go where the ducks are coming, you're going to shoot more ducks.

Jase Robertson

At the end of the day, I love eating duck. It's the best thing you can eat on this earth, especially grilled with jalapenos and cream cheese.

Jase Robertson

A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.

Henry Samueli

For me, it's just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team.

Dave Mason

We're happy that we got this little stay of execution, so to speak. It'll give us some time to get all our ducks in a row, to take on whatever they throw at us in the future.

Brad Pitt

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Sandra Cisneros

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Kara Walker

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

NeNe Leakes

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Jacky Teplitzky

There is a standstill situation. We all thought September was going to be a strong month, but that did not happen. The phones did not ring. Turnout at the open houses was low, lower than we had expected.

Lynn Forres

We have appropriated about $90 billion. And I don't see that the homeowners are getting it to be able to prepare to put their houses back.

Chris Hall

We're not here today to sell houses or promote property.

Keeley Hawes

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

Suriyasai Katasila

The regime has turned parliament into the houses of relatives.

Susan Lyne

She has lived in many homes. She has made houses and a lifestyle her life's work.

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Martin Anderson

We're confirming that houses have been lost; we can't give you the numbers.

Farooq Kathwari

I had one in my office for a year and tested them in some friends' houses to make sure it worked.

Robert Owens

We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.

Tom Watson

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

Chanel Iman

When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.

Evangeline Lilly

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

Larenz Tate

Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.

Luke Nosek

If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

I was very fortunate, because I don't think many people get to spend time with their great-grandfathers. So, he passed away when I was 15, so I spent a lot of time with him. We lived together. He traveled a lot, but when he was here, we lived together.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

Proverb Proverb

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Miah Wheeler

She just kind of locked in. You watched the guy's finals, and 50 percent of them fell.

Chris Kearney

Like every other private psychiatric hospital, we are a locked and secure facility, but not 'maximum security.

David Shearer

I can't remember (the West Bank) being that locked down for such a long period of time.

Mack Strong

With Darrell back, we got all of our weapons; we are locked and loaded. We are ready for whoever comes in here next Sunday.

Isabel Allende

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

Paulo Coelho

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Stan Wasowski

We are locked into a weather pattern right now.

John Bryan

I think it has merit and I'm not locked into it, but until somebody shows me something better, I like it.

Greg Walker

He seemed to really get locked in. Once he got on a roll, it was obvious. We were like, 'That's him.' We just pat him on the back now.

Joe Gibbs

Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate, ... and I'm picking up the tab!

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

James Evans

Until he understands that, he'll keep on picking up things to see if they work.

Jose Andres Puerta

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

Jenny Potter

We have 20 players picking each other up.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Kami Roeder

We've seen them play, played them twice, and we know what they're all about.

Tim Finchem

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

Erik King

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Edmond H. Fischer

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Ed Speleers

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Lesley Nicol

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Elif Safak

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

Elena Anaya

I can hypnotize rabbits.

Two Chainz

Then I put a fat rabbit on a Craftmatic!

Doug Graham

Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"

A. A. Milne

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

A. A. Milne

Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.

Lorraine Corriveau

Rabbits make wonderful pets, but they are a 10-year commitment. Like any other pet, they require attention.

Doug Grout

Don't get me wrong, we've got rabbits that come out and run our races.

Kit Williams

The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.

C. S. Lewis

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Thomas Massie

I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.

Jason Taylor

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Carol Kane

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

Carol Vorderman

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

Carol Vorderman

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

Carlos Queiroz

Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

Carlos Mesa

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

Carlos Delgado

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

Carlos Beltran

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Carl Crawford

Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Juanita Longwell

I can't have the mountain, but at least I've got the stream here.

Jonathan Cain

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

Shonda Rhimes

There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR.

Charles Braun

It's unique in that it is around a stream and trees.

Christian Cooke

Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.