Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

Ronald Koeman

We know we can surprise them, but we must also respect Barcelona and acknowledge that they have a great team. Nothing is impossible.

Emily Smith

We know each other, we visit each other and in times of crisis, we pull together. We cannot let the barriers of language or culture or custom come between us. We are united in the call for justice. We know that every good work is rewarded ten-fold.

Rosecrans Baldwin

When I was a kid, we didn't eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny's, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around.

Atharva Veda

Verily, every creature lives there, the cow, the horse, and man, where this charm is performed, as the (protecting) barrier for life.

David Mitchell

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Michael Moriarty

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

Orrin Hatch

The position that you have been nominated for is chief justice of the United States. Do you plan to use that role as a bully pulpit to encourage members of the bar to take seriously their responsibility to undertake pro bono work as you have done throughout your legal career?

Kathleen Blanco

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

Nancy Idland

We have musicians from as far away as Ontario and Seattle traveling all the way to Greenville to be a part of our first blues festival - this is exciting.

Larry Groce

There is no question that he is one of the most dynamic performers we've had. We will give him as much time as we can and really let him stretch out. At this point it is Buddy Guy and B.B. King who are the greatest blues men alive.

Jon Nicholson

We found her singing at a blues bar, ... where she was waitressing.

Larry Pleau

We're pleased to say that Bryce's career as a member of the St. Louis Blues will continue for several more years,

Robbie Robertson

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

Josh Martin

Old blues stuff is pretty much what we really listen to, and what, on the foundation, structures the band, as far as music goes. That's what we're all collectively super into.

Susan Tedeschi

I feel like I'm part of a big family, ... I meet blues singers all the time, and they're surprised that I'm a white girl but very supportive. And when they hear me sing, they just say, 'Girl!'

John Mayall

I think initially people like Johnny Lang, they seemed to be a novelty at the time but nowadays there are so many blues guitarists.

John Brady

I think there are a lot of wannabes...but I don't think there's another Lee Atwater, ... but no one can play blues guitar with B.B. King that I know of and also run a presidential campaign...

Charles Dickens

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

W. S. Gilbert

When you've got a guy like Elliott between the pipes, he's like a brick wall. He's making every save we need. He's giving us all the confidence in the world.

Michael Leunig

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Nathan Sawaya

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

Susan Hill

What has us most upset is the short time frame and short notice we were given about this, ... They said they were going to tear up our brick sidewalks, and that we pretty much didn't have a choice in the matter.

Gary Barnett

Web services are the mortar. But you also have to consider the bricks and the shape of the building.

Benjamin Britten

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

Reed PhD

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Shannan Bergen

She's a kid that'll go through a brick wall for you.

David Mitchell

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

Peter Hamilton

The poultry market has been incrementally down for a year. There is a lot more chicken than chicken customers.

Billy Jones

The people who worked on the farm, who did not know the child, placed him in the chicken coop and were looking after him and then called the police.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Michael Keaton

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

Marion Nestle

What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?

Ken Howe

When we do our cuts, I still do it the old fashion chicken ways. I put up a list of the guys who are going to continue to practice.

Mary LeBlanc

When we got married, we had nothing. We had no water, no utilities. There were no screens on the house. There were cracks in the floor big enough you could see the chickens walking under the house.

Scott Faber

What he said was incredibly encouraging, but I'm not counting any chickens yet.

Dave Chappelle

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act.

Bill Bailey

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Trevor St. John

I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and auditioned and did very well there. My first gig was playing a skinhead in John Singleton's 'Higher Learning', and I played Glenn Close's son in a TV movie called 'Serving In Silence.'

Tom Stoppard

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Denis Law

There's no way Ryan Giggs is another George Best. He's another Ryan Giggs

William Bryan

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

Kristy Curry

I talked to her on the phone (Saturday) and she had a little giggle in her voice and I knew she'd be OK.

Joey Ramone

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Jason Berryman

She kinda swept me off my feet. She's very positive for me.

Cory Ratai

I think we kinda rattled them early, but that's all a part of our game.

Pat Thomas

I think we performed pretty well. We're kinda tiny but mighty. For every person on this team there is talent, but there just is not a lot of depth.

Tony Amonte

I think we're the only ones going to be there with kids. But we kinda have to with the baby.

Rick Jackson

It had an effect. We play the same position. I kinda play like him. So I think I could have the same success.

Steve Bauer

I think we can be pretty good, but we're kinda young.

Gregg Popovich

Our philosophy here is kinda like participatory management,

John Newman

Our opening has kinda been all though the week. We're trying to get it festive.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Hal Mumme

We've already done that. The two quarterbacks we have, Vincent hasn't played before and Gill played JC. We've taken out as much as we can.

Mike Pomerenke

We stopped doing all the little things that we did earlier. We reverted back to some of our old ways and played with not a lot of intensity.

Dave Odom

We stood up to the challenge. We played very well. We did not play well enough to win.

Scooter Dunn

We started a little slow, but we hadn't played any.

John Stockton

We've got a pretty young team with a lot of sophomores and some new freshmen, but they've played together a lot,

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

Steve Kohn

There is no question that race and racial prejudice played a part in the interplay between these individuals.

Neal McDonough

'Justified' is one of the greatest teams I've ever played for. It's just awesome.

Jeff Halpern

When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.

Sam Reed

We were supposed to get it the first of December.

Mike Radke

We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.

Jennifer Shoaf

We've surprised a lot of people. We've even surprised us. We weren't supposed to be here.

E. Hicks

She was able to make some shots. That's what she is supposed to do.

Mike Landry

She's a player. You watch her play and you say, 'That's how the game's supposed to be played.

Chris Harris

I feel like I'm supposed to be here.

James Gandolfini

I was just supposed to say what I was supposed to say and get out.

Nathan Forrest

I thought we executed well offensively. When Renee and Christina do what they're supposed to do they're very tough to guard.

Tom Burchill

We talk about having fun. This is a race, this is a sport and it's supposed to be fun. We work so hard, this better be fun.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Rachel Tucker

Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.