Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Wainwright

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth inning, or I could be going in there seventh or eighth inning. Nobody's said anything to me. I'll just be ready.

Agnes Repplier

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

Alan Kay

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

Alan Keyes

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

Melissa McCarthy

There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.

Larry Robinson

The reality is that we have eight new guys in our lineup. We have to get them on the same page as everyone else.

Eric Hamilton

The people in Washington were very impressed with the eight different municipalities all working together on this.

Sue Monk Kidd

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.

Taylor Lautner

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

Tim Loomis

We wanted to wait until the second half to do what we needed to do to stop him.

Josh Beckett

We've still got little more than half a month to go, probably three-quarters of a month actually. We've got to keep winning. This thing ain't over yet.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Jason Hafner

When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.

Bruce Morrow

We used to turn up on the day of the match, meet for half an hour and then go and play,

Tom Hopper

London's so busy, London's manic half the time.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Eugene Fama

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.

Jane Austen

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Bruce Smith

We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Olympia Snowe

The reality is, this is a very different world than where we were even six months ago,

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Jane Austen

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

Delta Goodrem

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Charles Dickens

Are there no prisons?

Charles Dickens

Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

Charles Spurgeon

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are worse prisons than words.

Alan Moore

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Edmund Burke

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Brendan Behan

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Chaka Khan

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

David Henry Hwang

We are all prisoners of our time and place.