Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Simon Pegg

Because once the word got out that we were making Shaun of the Dead, we didn't want people to think we were backtracking or changing our minds.

Tracey Ullman

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.

Tommy Cooper

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'

Tony Hancock

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

Tony Hancock

And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

Rory Bremner

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

Dawn French

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

Dawn French

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.

Eric Morecambe

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

Shawn Garrett

Obviously we'd have liked to come here and win it the first time out. We shake it off and get ready for tomorrow.

Mary Matalin

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

Cheryl Tiegs

My father's name is Theodore, but that - it's always - I've always liked the name Theodore. I read a lot. It's in a lot of literature.

Bill Cowher

No, I kind of liked the ones he's had,

Stan Cliburn

Naturally, this wasn't the way we wanted to start. We would have liked to have put on a better show.

Kacy Catanzaro

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

Sami Abdulbari

One of the Clarksville d-lineman told me to keep it up. He liked the enthusiasm.

Luis Castillo

I would have liked to stay; I would have liked at least another year.

Albert Schweitzer

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Daina Parent

Mind over matter, baby. This is what we've trained for all year. This is ours.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Proverb Proverbs

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Nikolai Gogol

Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter.

Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Sam Allardyce

I was at the game, but he never rang me.

Chuck Olson

She worried about what she would do if she ran out of gas.

Michael Pietsch

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

Angel Jr.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better,

Daniel Yergin

We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

David Harsanyi

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

Chuck Palahniuk

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

Willard Scott

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Louie Schwartzberg

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

PewDiePie

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

Marcel Duchamp

It's the viewer that makes the work.

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Denis Waitley

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Cheryl Strayed

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Bryant H. McGill

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Brigitte Bardot

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Tim Sims

He was just wild enough to keep them off balance.

Aldo Leopold

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.