Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Miller

I was a couch potato until my mother talked me into swimming,

Epicurus

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

John Gemberling

I did spend much of my 20s sitting on a couch playing video games and ordering disgusting food.

Diane Yomtov

He like, (choking sound), and I look at the end of the couch and it's covered with this foamy green vomit.

Graham Elliot

I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.

Brandt Jobe

Last August, I was sitting on a couch wondering if I was ever going to play golf again. A year later, I'm playing in the Tour Championship. Right now, after all that, life is pretty good.

Tom Larson

He was sitting on the couch in his pajamas. He had on his reading glasses, and he was facing the TV.

Brandon Heath

I was sitting on my couch watching and thinking, if only I had taken my education that much more seriously I'd be out there also.

John Searles

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

John Reid

Parties -- and the paramilitary groups -- have to play their part

Louis Navellier

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Ryan Julison

Some of these groups have legitimate concerns. Some just oppose development.

Jennifer Best

Some groups are worried that, if that happens, they won't have the volunteers they need.

Bob DuPuy

plans to talk to people involved with various groups he does not know. After that, we should be in a better position to make a recommendation.

Bill Dixon

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

Bill Peterson

I want you guys to pair up in groups of three and then line up in a circle.

Jeffrey Osborne

I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.

Richard Young

I think it's human nature that we all tend to do much better in groups than we do alone.

Paul Larsen

When they go back and lecture about that material from the textbook, they have a brand-new perspective on what they're talking about.

Aristotle

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

W. G. Sebald

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

Os Guinness

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

David Souter

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

Eric Schaefer

There was always a lecturer during the shows named Elliott Forbes, but since there were 15-20 of these road shows going on, there were 15 or 20 Elliott Forbes. It was really a multimedia experience.

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

Hal Boyle

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Bernadette Peters

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Bill Burr

I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.

Geri Federico

That will be something we will do a lot of is listening to students.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Michael Jacobson

Listening to them, you would think they want studies done on humans.

Patrick Moynihan

listening to probably the wisest New Yorker that we can know of at this time.

Walter Pater

He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Mark Aaron

Our New York flagship store is staffed and open for business.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway. We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway, ... We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Heath Miller

I was able to get open and Tommy got me the ball,

Marscilla Packer

I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball.

Lane Olinghouse

Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Bill Dixon

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

Carl Sagan

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Bill Vaughan

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Gary Snyder

That's the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

Juanita Johnson

I was thinking, 'Well, this is easy.' Three-fourths into it, I remember sweating. I hadn't sweated in a long time.

Larry Anderson

I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here for another one.

Eric Osmundson

I thought oh, not again. I remember my first year here was a similar situation.

Brett Ellis

Some of them are $40,000, and they've been sitting there for 120 days.

Pierre Lacroix

That day was like sitting on the ice. Now we're sitting in the whirlpool.

Jaswant Singh

Other than sitting and talking to Pakistan, we can't do much more,

Bill Richardson

we'll all end up sitting in the dark.

Bill Bryson

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Bill Budge

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Ashley Giles

It is a lot worse sitting up there than it was in the middle,