Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Rice

One more hit of crack cocaine on these earnings. I felt we were so addicted to our quarterly earnings that we were selling our future revenue potential.

Sathya Baba

One who is addicted to intoxicating drinks and meat eating and leads a sensuous life is a demonic being.Such a person is intensely selfish and has no feeling or consideration for others.

Sara Peterson

My favorites are the chocolate-covered berries -- raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. They are just divine. The berries are always enormous and fresh. I'm also addicted to the almond butter crunch.

Trey Walker

Now states are addicted to this money. The state, for better or for worse -- we are wedded now to those payments.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

H. Judd

I guess I'm addicted to work and always going. To stop would be to die.

Jeremy Piven

I'm a musician who's at the end of his rope who's been addicted to coke for a while,

Deirdre O'Kane

I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.

Kathy Mattea

I have been blessed to work for so many years with great musicians. That's my joke with my manager: that I'm addicted to musicians.

Isabella Rossellini

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.

Malorie Blackman

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

Cherie Blair

Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

Andy Stern

Let's be clear -- state employees and other voters in New Hampshire take a huge risk by supporting him. Wesley Clark has a life-long pattern of support for national Republicans whose policies have been disastrous for public employees, and that is a track record that raises huge doubts about what he would do if he ever became President.

Paul Dowling

Lending to businesses became the flavor of the month about 18 months ago. It's a direct consequence of heightened competition in the industry after mortgage lending slowed.

John Ortberg

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Arthur Hamlin

Love made the team, but James and I saw we weren't going to get a uniform. We didn't see the need in sitting the bench our senior year, so we became their No. 1 fans. We didn't have cars back then, so we would thumb rides to the away games.

Rep. Detert

Last year we did this bill, and it became a train. This year, we hope to just have a home run.

Shannon Hawrylo

Last year, we made a breakthrough because we became the closest-knit group since I have been on the team. That really helped, being together. We came together a little late though. Near the end, we had some really good races, but had we done better, we would have been in the nationals. That was not cool, but at least we are taking a step forward.

Michael Harrison

(SDSU) did a good job doubling our post players and bothering us offensively. They made some tough shots. They executed.

Joey Smith

Neighbors don't like it. But my children and their friends enjoy riding around my pond. We're not hurting no one or bothering no one else.

Joe Hudak

We needed a big effort out of him today. His thumb was bothering him. It was getting worse as the game went on. I'm so proud of him, the way he competed.

Brad Ausmus

I didn't notice a dramatic difference. The difference is if his leg is bothering him, he can compensate with his arm. But if he's compensating with his arm, he's not going to last very long. He'll end up not only with a sore leg but a sore shoulder. And Roger is a classic leg-driving pitcher.

Brian Cashman

I could see it was bothering him when he was throwing. Hopefully, it's nothing more than a small episode.

Chris Adrian

The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward.

Pamela Sue Martin

If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

Joseph Garcia

We came out lethargic in the first half. Audra (Major's) back was bothering her like it did before Christmas, and the guards really had to step it up.

David Eckstein

We had our chances. I think his hamstring was bothering him. There was a play when he didn't run to cover first base. There may be something there.

Sam Worthington

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

Granth Sahib

When the mind is cleaned with the jewel of spiritual wisdom, it does not become dirty again.

Sue Smith

We've never cleaned it like we're going to do this morning. This has been needing a cleaning for a long time.

Robert Brusca

On the economic plate, next week's really pretty light. The big event is the big event, four letters: F-O-M-C. After the week we just had, we about cleaned up everything; we now have plenty of time to focus on the Fed.

Donna Henderson

If they would get the school fixed up, then the neighborhood would get cleaned up.

Atharva Veda

I have conquered and cleaned thee out (?); I have also gained thy reserve. As the wolf plucks to pieces the sheep, thus do I pluck thy winnings.

Jeff Dungan

I don't have any concern at all - none - that we can't get the county cleaned up in the 60-day window.

Leon Bridges

I shop at thrift stores and consignment shoppes. I wear my clothes as is, and maybe get them dry cleaned whenever possible.

Mike Voisin

Timeliness is an issue. Oysters have two reproductive seasons, spring and fall. We missed last fall and this spring, and we don't want to miss this next fall. Each season represents $125 million, and recovery is harder each season we miss. We have two or three months to get the debris cleaned up.

Jalal Rumi

Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the summits I ascend.If I go around in circleI observe the axis on which I revolve.If I am dragged by a burden,I know where I go.For I am the moon, and the sun is my guide.

Terry Gilliam

I hate being dragged into genres. I like movies that are full of a lot of conflicting and interesting things,

John Niven

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Adrian McKinty

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

Nancy Gibbs

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

Paul Blake

It could have gotten dragged out. But there were other issues. It got to the point where there were too many things going on.

John Rosemond

Today, you see kids 5, 6, 8 throwing tantrums ... having to be dragged out of the store by their parents. Even worse, not being dragged out of the store by their parents. You folks think this is normal.

Meghan Trainor

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.

James Nichols

This thing started at Waco. Tim was (at Waco) and we were the first people he visited after he visited Waco. Isn't it quite a coincidence that we are dragged into the same thing?

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Shay Cox

Megan had a big game. She had two big shots, and she really needed them.

Bill Belichick

Obviously, we're disappointed. We weren't able to make the plays we needed to make to win, that's why we didn't win.

Charles Seaton

One trip cock on each end was redundant. We only needed one trip cock per car.

Michael Turner

More observations are needed to find out what is going on here.

Andy Serkis

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

John Fuller

Now we are being told to stay put, because there is the possibility that our resources will be needed here.

Olympia Snowe

needed to offer a personal, passionate and sincere renunciation of racism and segregation in all its forms, and he did that.

Tallia Cahoon

When I got to Ruby, I needed to know more.

Albert Schweitzer

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Albert Schweitzer

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

Albert Schweitzer

The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.

Albert Schweitzer

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

Shelly Williams

One of my trackers made the sound of a duiker, a small antelope, as if it were in pain.

Hector Munro

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

Van Orden

One tragedy here, one tragedy there, ... We go through different acts, but we all go through the same pain, the same suffering, the same recovery.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Dick Wolf

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Diane Sawyer

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

Dennis Quaid

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Eleanor Roosevelt

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Edward Abbey

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

John Clifford

From talking to him, I think he wants to play receiver.

John Groff

From what we have been talking about, it's going to be really something.