Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tika Sumpter

I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I'm comfortable in it, I feel confident.

Casey Nicholaw

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

Shelby Futrell

Yeah. They can be a little bossy at times.

Hope Davis

In the case of these two siblings I was really interested in exploring how two people who grew up in the same damaged and strange household emerged with such divergent world views. I don't mind at all being the bossy one or the pushy one. She was a very juicy character for me to play.

Kevin Connolly

My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly.

Tina Fey

Start with a 'Yes', and see where that takes you.

Shirley Temple

I've always been bossy.

Frank Rogers

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Dan Bartlett

The plight of the Palestinians has always been on the president's mind and a part of his statements. But sometimes when we state our case not all of it gets out. So we reorder the priorities to make sure our entire policy and positions get out there.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it is a human case of H5N1.

Joe Gibbs

We've all kind of been in a similar situation. In my case it was a racquetball tournament,

Grant Hedgepeth

We've actually run into one case that was well over $100,000 in damage and it's still a misdemeanor. That's bad.

Bob Bowlsby

There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involved, ... I'm sure given some of the upsets and the things that have gone on already this year, there will be many people who are making a case for themselves that they should be in the tournament field where they might have been left out in the past.

Charles Dickens

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

Charles Dickens

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

Charles Dickens

"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

Charles Caleb Colton

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

Charles Caleb Colton

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Charles Caleb Colton

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

Charles Caleb Colton

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

Charles Caleb Colton

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Anton Schutz

Mack is not going to sell damaged goods. If he can fix it, he'll get a higher price.

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Jim Sherman

We've seen where young guys are somewhat already damaged goods when they come out of high school. They've had some problems before, but it really doesn't come to the forefront until they get to college.

Tatsuo Kageyama

The prospect of rising interest rates in the major economies -- Europe, the United States and Japan -- has significantly damaged sentiment in the commodities market.

Stephen Perry

Tourism doesn't just happen. We have a damaged brand.

Becki Newton

I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.

Gore Vidal

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.

Alexander Farrell

One of the main purposes is to explain why the studies found in the literature have such divergent results.

Park Geun-hye

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

Hope Davis

The film's interested in exploring how two siblings, who grew up in the same house, could have such divergent world views.

Veronica Roth

I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.

Veronica Roth

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

Veronica Roth

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

Veronica Roth

I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

Mark Oaten

We still want to try to seek consensus, however two sticking points have emerged for us.

Mike Gill

What he did great after that first inning was get the first and second guy out before giving up that hit. He's really emerged as the ace, and we're going to keep riding him.

James Rubin

The procedural hurdle that emerged yesterday has been overcome and we are proceeding apace.

Robbie Fowler

When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era.

David Suzuki

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

Donald Lowe

The rapidity with which this has emerged over the last two to three years is probably unprecedented. When you look at the numbers, this way outstrips other so-called new infectious diseases.

Ivo Daalder

One of the remarkable things about Macedonia is that it is the only republic that has emerged out of Yugoslavia in which there is a multi-ethnic government.

Judy Preston

I don't say this lightly: Louisiana has emerged as a model for juvenile justice systems in this country.

Carrie Mae Weems

I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.

Elliott McCullough

We're exploring options. We want to make this as painless as possible." ()

Jill Lajdziak

We're exploring different alternatives. We're not ready to talk about that today.

Chuck D.

We're exploring all sorts of options for waste. There's so much of it.

Tony Glover

Let's just say that he's exploring his options for the future.

Ellen Stofan

We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.

Brian Greene

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Gillian Cross

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

Gillian Cross

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

Leon Bridges

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

Alan Jackson

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

David Giuntoli

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Luke Bracey

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

Lucas Till

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

Nnedi Okorafor

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Elizabeth Moon

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

Lennon Parham

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

Greg Stuart

We actually think the (Internet) penetration in households is higher.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Mamie Gummer

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Darrell Issa

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

Thomas Sutton

He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

Elaine Pagels

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

Beverly Jones

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

John Parsons

We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment.

Valerie Miller

We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.

Judy Woodruff

We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it?

Valerie Cunningham

We?re in discussions with other interested parties ... to see what kind of solution we could come up with.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Rod Paige

whether or not I'd be interested is a whole other issue.

Park Chan-wook

When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

Joyce Brothers

We're so interested in it because it's different for everyone.

Kurt Vonnegut

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

Dionne Bromfield

I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh.

Sasha Cohen

I love cashmere. For casual, I like Juicy Couture. I love the beading in Badgley Mischka. I like Dolce & Gabbana. There's such a lot to choose from.

Andrew Wyeth

I am not a juicy painter.

Juicy J

I'm starting the Juicy J Scholarship Foundation. I'm going to start doing a lot of different things trying to help out and give back.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Bonnie Langford

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Bev Kearney

It just doesn't get any better for her - all three siblings here at Texas.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Alan Arkin

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I really discovered [Dr.Strange] through hearing about this film and first meeting Scott [Derrickson] and getting into it and just opening up and saying, "Okay, this is, like all comics, very much of its era," and my first question was, 'How do you make this film? Why do you make this film now?' and the answers were so enticing that I was like, "I'm in."

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don't email saying, "When are we doing next film?" I'm excited to see.

C. S. Lewis

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Agnes Varda

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.