Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caitlin Moran

Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.

Michael Moskow

I am starting to hear more anecdotes about softening in housing markets, and seeing more reports that home prices are growing at a slower rate,

Bea Arthur

I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.

Nicholas Kristof

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

Douglas Coupland

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

Peter Milligan

With 'Hollow Circus,' I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children.

Jane Birkin

It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

Chuck Palahniuk

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

Matt Loesch

There are a million anecdotes that show that the College hasn't given students fair warning about work that is being done to their rooms. Students have said that several times there have been two knocks on their door and it opens without warning. Others have experienced workers peering into their windows.

C. S. Lewis

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Justin Glover

When everybody thinks about a sinkhole, people think of a home crashing into a hole. That's not what we're finding. We're finding it's cracks in driveways, cracks in the walls, settling on the roof and those are being paid as sinkhole claims.

Reese Witherspoon

When he had a scene, we would stand like a set away and watch, and we were just cracking up. He would just sit funny. And stand funny. He was just so funny in everything he did.

Jason Schenker

The crack spread of gasoline has collapsed, and only an escalation of Iranian tensions could buttress crude at this level.

Edmund Hillary

I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.

Rahul Dravid

There are some cracks on it but otherwise it looks a good track.

Ron Walters

where the population was predominantly white, where FEMA got cracking in a hurry.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Brian Billick

When you're 0-2, your whole world has to be about getting that first win and stopping that slide. A two-game losing streak to start the season, it can't get to that third game. That's a tough nut to crack if it does.

Ronnie Vannucci

We're just looking forward to getting home, but it's not going to be us not seeing each other or anything like that. We can't wait to get back into the garage, hammer out ideas for songs, go out for dinners together, work on the new album. You know, do sh-- like that.

Ruth Smith

No, not for seniors. We usually have our dinners early.

Bill Brewer

We've had one of these dinners on the 50-yard-line at Texas Stadium, and invited some players to stop by. We did it (the 50-yard-line stadium dinner) because we thought it was fun.

Steve Bridges

Here I am in one of those press dinners ... I got to pretend I like being here.

Lindsey Graham

We don't do Lincoln Day Dinners in South Carolina. It's nothing personal, but it takes a while to get over things.

Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners

Jon Bartos

Fewer family dinners means nobody is trading stories anymore.

Greg Biffle

We're going out for steak dinners and we're finishing in the top five and we're third in points and everything's great.

Marc Danley

They're more than customers; they are like friends and family. We've even had some second generations come in to have their rehearsal dinners here, the same place their parents had theirs.

Alexander Ovechkin

We have nine games more, we have to try to win five or six. We don't have any pressure right now and we're enjoying ourselves.

Liam Payne

When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

Rick Reynolds

We're in a lodge. We're not in a tent. It's a way to relax at night. A little television indoors doesn't take away from my experience enjoying the scenery here.

Kylie Minogue

I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment.

Taron Egerton

If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

Phil Jackson

We're exploring life without Shaq, ... and enjoying it, too.

Zach Keene

We're focused, but yet we're still enjoying the moment. No matter how many times you've been there, it's still something special.

Alan Nicholl

We're really enjoying the role of the underdog.

Joakim Noah

Right now, it's all about seizing the moment. It's about just playing possession by possession. There's no feeling like this. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We're just soaking it in, enjoying every moment.

Brian Eno

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

George Best

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

Bill Kelly

Wow, all I can say is it's a fabulous contribution. If I knew I wouldn't tell you, but I would go and thank her personally.

Denny Green

Tony is a fabulous coach, ... He was ready for his head job. I just think it's all about opportunity.

Grace Corrigan

She left a fabulous legacy. It's making people feel good about themselves, making kids feel they're important, making teachers be proud of themselves.

Dan Campbell

She threw a fabulous game -- I'm very pleased with the way she threw. She showed me a lot. She's a competitor, but she really showed me a lot.

Philip Dick

The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

Greg Murtha

We had a fabulous morning. It was knee-deep to waist-deep powder.

Kimora Lee Simmons

It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Anthony Blair

She jolly well does exist. And I'll get you her picture by next Friday!

David Frost

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.

A. N. Wilson

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

There was a jolly miller once, / Lived on the river Dee; / He worked and sang from morn till night; / No lark more blithe than he.

Geoffrey Chaucer

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

Tyrus Thomas

He's just a big, jolly ... Glen. He's the life of the team.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Martin Klein

People want to come to a local landmark, ... They want to be comfortable.

Adam Schiff

People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Brad Pitt

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Bill McKibben

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

Bill Maher

New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

Daniel Handler

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.

Eli Broad

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

Edward Abbey

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Billy Crystal

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

Audrey Hepburn

Living is like tearing through a museum.

Jessie Coiffard

We have to get focused. This was pretty much a practice game. Now we have to pick it up and play really hard.

Roger Dow

Vegas is going to pick up, too, ... If you want to party, everything's there restaurants, gaming.

Chris Colfer

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Dellena Criner

We're starting to pick it up at the end (of the season). We're focused.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Jared Dudley

We're not here to look at what the analysts pick. If you pick that, that's great. But first things first - we've got Pacific.

P. J. Harvey

We've got many weapons. You've got to pick your poison, whether you want it out at the perimeter or in the paint.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Camilla Luddington

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

Demosthenes

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Justin Jeffre

We're going to take our time and do what we feel is right. We're not rushing anything.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Brooke Langton

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Louis C. K.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Gary Sinise

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Nestor Carbonell

It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

James Rota

There are no tricks with us. What you see is what you get.

Phoebe Philo

It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.

Cassie Desmone

He managed his way through a lot of tricky holes.

Richard Garnett

He was a follower. He got tricked easily.

Douglas MacArthur

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Dorothy Richardson

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Tracy McMillan

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.