Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malin Akerman

In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

LK Advani

Main problem of Bangladesh was its culture of denial by the government by not acknowledging how can the problem be solved,

Jeff Gibson

Less is more when it comes to color and annuals. Choosing a single color pattern carries a more dramatic visual impact than mixing and matching. And you can get more bang for the buck in terms of color and coverage by breaking the normal rules for potting and planting annuals that call for spacing them widely apart.

Mike Montgomery

McGrady just goes bang, bang, bang and hits those shots. (But) the odds, I guess, have to come back to you at some point.

Craig Allen

My first three years I battled injuries on and off. It's nice to be able to go out with a bang in my senior year.

Eric Takamura

More bang for your buck. So we could potentially remove 80- to 100-thousand tons from our waste stream, versus mixed recyclable is only estimated at 24,000 tons.

Sheikh Hasina

Now we have decided to go back to bargain people's demands as we don't want to give the government and ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) a chance to ignore them any more.

Jose Andres Puerta

When I came to El Bulli, right away I knew I was becoming part of something incredible. It was like watching the Big Bang happening right in front of me.

Paul Moroney

When the jockey hops off and tells you the horse feels bang on, you get a good feeling about it.

David Lucas

I always kind of chuckle when I hear people start talking like he's done,

Jeff Blauser

I thanked him for sending a top-notch major league pitcher to face us in my managerial debut. He got a chuckle out of that.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

Ron Gardenhire

As 'TK' would tell you, he left me with a can't-miss team. I always chuckle at that.

Ron Gardenhire

As 'TK' would tell you, he left me with a can't-miss team, ... I always chuckle at that.

Mike Breen

We talked about it, but we never really thought it would happen. We knew that the odds were extremely large. We still have a chuckle or two about it.

Willie Mitchell

You can hear it. You chuckle when you see them get on a guy like that. But it means a guy must be doing something to get that kind of reaction.

Dan Ahrens

We chuckle when we hear about the short-term holiday effect because the way that EA has been growing their revenue and earnings year in and year out makes it something we want to hold for a long time,

Jason Biggs

This film is very heavy and intense at times, and I think in order to make it a well-rounded movie, you need someone to come in and deliver a little chuckle factor. To be able to come play and deliver was great fun, especially to do it in a completely new genre for me. You have to go to these funny places, but you can't overdo it.

William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

John Grogan

I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.

Tyra Banks

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

Sue Kidd

I grew up in a small town in Georgia, and I must confess that I was mining my memories of that small town. I can vividly see a lot of the scenery in terms of my own place.

Lee Siegel

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

The Talmud

Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession

Nimrat Kaur

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.

Mel Torme

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

Peter Fleming

When I first met Stanley, I said, 'If you did this, you should confess to it, because it'll help. But he said, 'If my innocence will cost me my life, so be it.

John Gleason

I cringe because I know there are going to be people preying on people subject to the immigration authorities.

Nigel Collins

Wheeler's Luck is strongly promoted as a New Zealand play and in the past that may have been downplayed in the publicity, and that it is now so much a part of the marketing shows we are getting over our cultural cringe factor.

Christopher Hitchens

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Jason Isbell

I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.

Lyle Lovett

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

Muffet McGraw

I don't really want to think about it. I really don't. I cringe when I think about next year without her.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Larry David

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Joe Gibbs

Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate, ... and I'm picking up the tab!

Jenny Potter

We have 20 players picking each other up.

Jose Andres Puerta

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Lili Taylor

My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested.

Shekhar Kapur

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

E. Hicks

We don't like the media. They're portraying him as a selfish person.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Pierce Brosnan

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

Chris Evans

I like wet hair and sweatpants. I like sneakers and ponytails.

Jamie Ullman

She was trying to sneak out. She was trying to go out the back way.

Bobby Orr

If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

Ben Cohen

Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.

Bobby Short

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

Alex Gibney

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

Dr. Seuss

Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!

Steve Sullivan

I was able to get a break. I was able to go 5-hole yesterday on Manny. I think I tried to show him the 5-hole and deke it around him and I was able to sneak it by.

Ricky Ponting

It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match.

Joyce Banda

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Audrey Hepburn

My look is attainable. Women can look like

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

Chris Evans

What does a woman want? More.

Tucker Max

Women always want the guy that other women want.

Tina Brown

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Democritus

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Denis Diderot

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Deborra-Lee Furness

As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel good. We recognise that some people have bad energy and we know we don't want that in our lives. Instead, we choose to spend time with people who love us and treat us well and make us happy. There's no doubt that shows on your face.