Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Conti

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

Mary Osako

making money and a person going to prison for expressing their viewpoint.

Tao Okamoto

Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.

David Schwimmer

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

Alexandra Stoddard

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.

ASAP Rocky

I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

Lindsay Wagner

I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself.

Timothy Noah

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Spurgeon

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

Al Roker

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Chris Metzger

We want the kids to take pride in the Lely brand. We preach family and Thursday night we were all together and we didn't have to worry about where they were.

Chris Cagle

She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

David Sedaris

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Tom Bradley

The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Karen Bradley

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Mike McCarthy

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Darl Keller

We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.

Don Helling

We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really team oriented and they knew what they needed to do.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Ari Adler

We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Bob Ross

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

Al Gore

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

Andre Agassi

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

John Milton

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

Jerry Spinelli

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Frank Ocean

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

George Soros

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

Garry Wills

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Austan Goolsbee

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Brittany Snow

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'

Sophia Amoruso

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Coventry Patmore

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

Donald Miller

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Debbie Reynolds

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Charles Dickens

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

Alan Jay Lerner

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.