Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Nierenberg

Let me get you the hydrologist, he's much more familiar with tropical systems than I am.

Gene Luen Yang

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

Pat Buchanan

For years, my friends, we have all heard that familiar taunt, 'Don't worry about them; they have nowhere else to go.' Well, guess what? We have somewhere else to go. At long last, we have a home of our own,

Susan Morrison

Found sounds are sounds like pots and pans, rice in milk jugs - things you can come up with to make music around the house with familiar objects.

David Nicholls

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

Amber Daulbaugh

We made a lot of mistakes when we went to their place. We had 29 turnovers and didn't shoot well from the paint. Now we're more familiar with our game versus their game and the good news is we get them at home.

John Flaherty

If they have more than one hearing, it won't be that bad. But you get the sense they're trying to rush some of this, which makes it hard for people to take time to read and get familiar with this and come down to Dover.

Utada Hikaru

I'd been familiar with the recording process since I was little, but I felt that this is what it's like to actually do it myself.

George Foreman

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

James McAvoy

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

Greg Myers

No one was quite sure where she landed,

Stephen Ryan

From a branding standpoint, they've done something quite important.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Albert Schweitzer

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

Mariano Rivera

Like I said before, I can't stop. If I have to go two, I have to go two. That's the way it is. And tomorrow is going to be the big one, so if I have to go two, I will go two.

Leonard Lauder

No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.

Dennis Flanagan

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

Edgar Allan Poe

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

Jose Andres Puerta

For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.

David Bowie

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

Don Meredith

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

Rand Hoch

Tom Lynch may not be the only one who could use a sensitivity workshop.