Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesar Romero

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.

Estelle

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

Talen Singer

We are looking to turn the corner this year and come out of a losing slump.

Mike Bair

There are customers from every corner of the globe.

Dean Chase

There are some farmers who pull up to the elevator here in the fall and just tell the people that this load of corn is going to the foundation.

David Ricardo

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,...

David Hume

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

Craig Thompson

We're going to reach all four corners of the country. We're going to be able to follow Mountain West sports the way no one else has been able to follow Mountain West sports before.

Rick Steves

What little history we've got in this rugged little corner of ours, we want to treasure. In Europe, they don't bulldoze things thoughtlessly. They preserve them.

Richard Alexander

We're getting ready for the future. We've cultivated and planted a garden and it's starting to grow. We need to keep doing that the rest of the season.

Big Sean

I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

William Channing

The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, or incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

Tim Gunn

Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-'90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It was a place that nurtured and cultivated young entrepreneurial designers.

Jack Pitney

Politicians back to Washington have evoked that story, but it's not really true. Eisenhower, for example, cultivated an image as a non-politician, even though you don't get to be a five-star general without being a politician.

David Herro

Maurice Saatchi cultivated the press instead of the clients.

Kid Rock

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

Kathe Kollwitz

I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Steve Perkins

We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.

Rolly Woolsey

We started the deal and here they are 30-years later in the Super Bowl.

Craig Brown

There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.

Jerry Miller

Single farmers need to find someone who can relate to what they do. Those people are out there. They just need to meet 'em.

Dave Gilmour

There are a lot of farmers who have marginal operations who just need help,

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak. They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak, ... They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Brian Bethune

The only consolation to farmers is that the price of seafood will go up further. So when production gets back on track, fish and shrimp producers can use the profits to recover their lost costs.

Brendon Smith

We do a lot to really support the local farmers and producers. We have products from about 180 local producers in our store, so we are not only selling fresher food but we are helping to support our community.

John Sulston

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

Howard Schwartz

One of things we know is that farmers learn from each other, ... This helps them share information as well as get information from us.

Nicolas Cage

I don't think we would be. I think it'd be scientists and farmers and such.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Watts

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Alan Ritchson

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

William Shakespeare

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

Ben Nelson

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

Eliphas Levi

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

Eric Betzig

Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

A. E. Housman

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

D. H. Lawrence

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Christopher Paolini

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ...

Anne Bishop

Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.

Andre Maurois

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Demetri Martin

When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.

Augustus Hare

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

Frank McCourt

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

Jim Fowler

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Francis Bacon

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Mary J. Blige

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told him. "What did they do to them?

Myrtle Reed

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

James Beard

I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

Alan Watts

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

China Machado

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Camille Paglia

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

Casey Kasem

A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

Eddie Montgomery

We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.

Baron Davis

I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well.

Antonin Artaud

Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.

Cher Lloyd

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Chinua Achebe

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Chinua Achebe

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Casey Affleck

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

William Shakespeare

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

David Hockney

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

Edwin Louis Cole

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

Bill O'Reilly

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

Larry Moore

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

Ron Williams

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Angela King

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

Larry Hawkins

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

Jason Rogers

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

David Brown

It went through trees before it got into the city.