Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Paul

I have 14 nieces and nephews.

Catherynne M. Valente

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

Diana Gabaldon

What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.

Cheryl Cole

I'm from a big family. I've got 10 nieces and nephews.

Bob Balaban

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

Carl Jung

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Arundhati Roy

Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy." Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over.

Carey Mulligan

I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

Clive James

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

Charlize Theron

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

Madeleine Albright

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

Elizabeth Olsen

When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

Craig Ferguson

A new restaurant here in Southern California requires women to wear high heels. I'm outraged! This is sexist! Why just the women?

Aimee Mullins

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Carine Roitfeld

I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

Amy Poehler

I do not improvise in heels.

Amy Adams

I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.

Alice Eve

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

Kylie Minogue

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

Tyra Banks

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Charles R. Swindoll

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Ed Parker

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

Ada Huxtable

She taught us how to look at blocks.

Kelsey Jakupcin

She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team.

Shelli Adams

She has taught me to be an administrator, to be global, to really look for what?s right for the kids.

Ben Jonson

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ving Rhames

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.