Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Alan Bennett

The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Al Jarreau

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

Akon

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Nancy Long

We want them to have moms and dads and normal families.

Roberto Alomar

When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.

Don Cheadle

Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.

Djimon Hounsou

I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. He's got all the costumes. One day he looks at me and says 'Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.' That was sort of a shock. This is why I am excited to be a part of the Marvel Universe, so I could be hopefully provide that diversity in the role of the superhero.

Dhani Harrison

My dad was my hero, my best friend.

Gary Johnson

The other two saw what was going on and grabbed the hostage, the store owner who was the only person in the store at the time, and held him at gunpoint,

Dan Wheldon

When you think Danica grabbed the headlines, you wait until he starts. She'll be jealous of him.

John Irvine

She grabbed our daughter, and I looked frantically for my 5-year-old son, ... He was looking out to sea. He was mesmerized, hypnotized by the wall of water.

Adan Dualle

Land for such use has been grabbed while infrastructure in some holding grounds need rehabilitation.

Tim Smith

I threw (the minivan) into park and ran after him and grabbed him.

Brian Steckler

He grabbed the knife as she thrust it at him.

Victor Penman

(He) walked over to this thing, grabbed it with his thumb and forefinger, and lifted it off the table. The place just erupted.

David Marks

Marc just grabbed the rib and pulled it right in the back of the boat.

George Hansen

That was massive. We wanted to have a little more leeway (in the seventh). But even more (importantly), it grabbed momentum back for us.

Eddie Vedder

We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out.

DeAngelo Williams

We know who (Williams) is, we've all heard about him, ... We go in the game, and we look at it like a championship game.

David Johnson

When I was a little boy, 40-plus years ago, I remember listening to the Palmetto State Quartet on my radio. Of course, none of them singing now are the same men I heard then.

Dan Beck

ULA is separate from this. We have not heard any indication from Lockheed-Martin that the strike is a problem.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.

Ednita Nazario

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Ariel Pink

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Sarah Snook

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

Mary Quant

Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.

Lee Ryan

I've learnt a lot over the years, but I'm still quite outspoken. And no matter how much media training you put me through, I don't think I could be anything but.

Mo Ibrahim

From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight.

Rebecca Ferguson

I think, even in society, people get so caught up in how they look. I think I let that go, and I've learnt to not care.

Prince Harry

Looking back on it now and at the time as well, it was a very stupid thing to do and I've learnt my lesson, simple as that really,

Charles Glover Barkla

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

Natalie Cole

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

Andrew Strauss

We have learnt what it takes to win a series in India.

Italian Proverb

Years and sins are always more than owned

John Conley

From 1992 to 2000, Motorola owned the project.

Robert Cahill

It has a lot of history. My grandparents owned this and my son is planning on taking it over. I'm not going to quit now? I'll keep going.

Jim Hines

It isn't even a park. That's the irony. It is private property owned by the university.

John Scalzi

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.

Ron Darling

One thing about that team is they owned this town.

Daniel Petrocelli

I would have never owned those ugly-ass shoes.

Bill Shorten

We're not slaves if we're workers, we're not owned by our employers.

Idina Menzel

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Benjamin Franklin

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

William Shakespeare

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

Bernard Law Montgomery

There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.

David Icke

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Carlos Castaneda

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Agnetha Faltskog

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

Calvin Harris

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

Donald Curtis

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Anthony Hopkins

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Chuck Grassley

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Charles Dickens

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Charles Dickens

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

Charles Dickens

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Charles Dickens

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Charles Dickens

My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.

Charles Dickens

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

Alanis Morissette

I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

Djuna Barnes

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form ...

David Amram

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.