Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.

C. S. Lewis

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

C. S. Lewis

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

Larry Brown

It went great. We had probably between 150 and 175 people because that's what we set it up for. We had nieces and nephews from New York at the event.

Gina Lollobrigida

I have experience seducing nephews.

John Carpenter

From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.

Ruth Buzzi

My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.

Steven Wright

My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.

Lewis Carroll

But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Billy Bob Thornton

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

David Parton

She weighed 16 pounds when we got here when she should have weighed 45.

John Gunter

I would've never thought that 40 pounds would make that much of a difference.

Brian Anderson

He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,

Charlie Chaplin

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

Alexander Cockburn

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

Shashi Tharoor

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

Bill Gates

There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

Danny Fortson

If you are going to be in that type of position, you better even things out. All men are created equal. In the United States, you are equal. Is the NBA a communist bloc? Or is this an equal democracy? He needs to figure that one out. And if he doesn't, I'm going to make it a democracy.

Paul Robeson

What do you mean by the Communist Party? As far as I know it is a legal party like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

Hal Sparks

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is about a communist sympathizer in tights who, uh, takes people's hard earned money and gives it to lazy people.

Pat Robertson

launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.

Elliott Abrams

At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.