Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carre Otis

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

Carol P. Christ

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

Carol Leifer

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.

Carol Leifer

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'

Carol Leifer

My father was a huge influence on me.

Carol Vorderman

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

Carlos Mencia

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

Carlos Castaneda

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

Carlos Castaneda

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Golf Brooks

We have no practices at all. We just wing it. It's spontaneous. No one knows what to expect. Even hearing the same song we played the week before, it could come off different. Everything's off the wall. It comes out better that way.

Orrin Hatch

We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will.

Brian Eno

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

Jane Austen

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

Michael Strahan

People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!

Arlen Specter

We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.

Jaime Martinez

We're hearing rumblings that it could be in the thousands. But we won't really know until Monday.

Luke Waddington

We're hearing it may be 6 p.m. Tokyo before an announcement comes out, and that's making people think it's a story to react to tomorrow. The timing of it is important because we're hearing lots of rumors.

David Boren

This process today made my opinion of the NCAA even more positive. This hearing today could not have been more fair. The panel members did their homework.

Kianna Smith

We've seen so many types of presses. I think I could sleep and still go through them. I knew that wouldn't be a problem.

Joe Cocker

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

The Weeknd

'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

Abby Wambach

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Theresa Russell

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.

Kirk Hinrich

We know we had Madison Square Gordon, so we knew we were in the driver's seat.

Tori Kelly

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.

Khloe Kardashian

I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

E. Hicks

He has no self-doubt whatsoever. Not an ounce of it,

Proverb Proverb

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.