Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bethany Dillon

I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not going to change the fact that at home I'm going to put away the clean dishes, and I'm going to have to be nice to my siblings. It encourages me, but it doesn't define me.

Ahmet Zappa

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

Brian Ferneyhough

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

Alexander Skarsgard

I'm not very active on social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or anything like that. But I think it's wonderful that they're out there. They're fantastic. I have a lot of siblings and friends that use it, and it's great for them. It's such a connected world.

Aleksandar Hemon

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Henry Fonda

No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.

Anne Lamott

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.

Albert Bandura

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

America Ferrera

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

Bert Blyleven

Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

Carrie Fisher

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

Dani Shapiro

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

Busy Philipps

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

Aldo Leopold

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose

A. A. Milne

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

David James Elliott

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

Cleveland Amory

The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

Andy Roddick

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

David A. Bednar

Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time.

Alice Hoffman

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

J. D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

Steve Smith

Twelve and five. That's a big difference. You can say what you want about us, but we can play.

George S. Kaufman

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

Patrick Rafter

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

Mary MacLane

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

George Wald

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.