Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Ora

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

Kent Partridge

We're in bigger markets now than when we first started, but the right ownership group and the right venue are more important than population size. The NBA hasn't put a timetable on going to 30 (development league) teams yet. We're always on the lookout for markets that make sense and we try to fish out and see if there are any interested groups.

Martin Seligman

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Leslie Bibb

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?

Michael Franti

I hope I inspire people to dream bigger than what they are living, but a dream within their reach.

Travis Bradberry

When you take on more than the norm, your boss can't help but think that you're capable of a bigger role. This includes showing that you're willing to take risks by making innovative suggestions.

Vern Lorsung

We have to get started cleaning up some of these lakes. Every year we let go by, it's a bigger hole we're digging.

Garrick Phillips

We have a special deal in our community, and with the kids. Unfortunately, it's about wins and losses sometimes. But overall it's a lot bigger than that.

Tom McKillop

We have no strategic need to be bigger -- none at all. So there is no reason to engage in major M&A activity.

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Kevin Yates

We want to send as many boys and girls to the district meet as we can and maybe get some individuals and relays to state.

Rob Walton

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

Navtej Sarna

We've also decided to permit relief material being sent by private organizations and international (charities) to Pakistan.

Glenn Matthews

We spoke and decided we didn't need to. We just want to let things settle down.

Luis von Ahn

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

Nolan Gerard Funk

I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Christopher Hill

Whether we have a draft that everyone agrees on, or whether it's decided that there should be a recess of some kind, we don't know yet,

Katie Cook

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Mallory Ortberg

Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.

Bruce Dickinson

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

Kendra Wilkinson

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

Billy Bob Thornton

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

David Parton

She weighed 16 pounds when we got here when she should have weighed 45.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Alan Bean

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

Alain Robert

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Al Stewart

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

China Mieville

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

Cheyenne Jackson

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.