Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nicholls

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

Suzan-Lori Parks

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

Diana Quick

I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent.

Vesta Williams

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

Val Guest

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

Imelda May

I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Scott Bakula

Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.

Henry Fonda

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

Robin Leach

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

Rick Perlstein

Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money to qualify more of their poor citizens for Medicaid under Obamacare. Meanwhile, some states have taken the money only to hoard it.

Phil Hardberger

Let Project Quest get back to work and train the citizens of San Antonio.

Edward Kennedy

major breakthrough in our effort to give senior citizens the prescription drug coverage under Medicare they need and deserve.

Christopher Bond

Let's honor the memory of the victims of 9/11 and their families by working hard to protect our citizens and our country.

Gene Luen Yang

Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.

Teresa de Lauretis

Many Italians today refer to themselves as citizens of a Third World country, which they are in many ways, not simply economically.

Kris Mineau

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions.

Wade Estep

Several of our officers have been around for quite a few years, and the citizens know them on a personal basis.

Wendy Kopp

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Michael Friedman

LD 1 really has significantly impacted county governments in a way we don't really know yet,

Craig Bryson

Left-turn signals not only can differ from county to county, they often differ within a county.

Patty Moore

So far, there are, that I know of, four different families that are locating in Robertson County due to the hurricane. A family was in my office practically all day one day last week looking for a place to stay as well as help for other needs.

Greg Todd

Moving into a new district and with Scott County now in our region, we have to be motivated at a high level to get out (of the 11th Region).

Gary Goode

Nelson County played well and stepped up and made plays to win. We had opportunities to force overtime or win it, but it didn't go our way. You have to give all the credit to Nelson County.

Gene Smith

One of the things most people don't understand is that even at this level... it is only a small portion of what pays for all of the services that come out of the county ? more than $67 million.

Ken DeCerce

One way or another we'll figure out a way to get some lights over there. It's a safety issue. But it being a county road is presenting some problems for me.

Ray Yeakley

More than anything, it just taps our resources. If you get anything else going on, it just straps the whole county as far as fire protection.

Ben Cherington

More than anything, I think he wants to stay in the Northeast, with his family living in Westchester County (N.Y.).

Jacqueline Novogratz

Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children.

Jay Wright

Now that we've got a good thing going here, I'm happier that it worked out that way. Everyone feels they earned it. You kind of know who your friends are. There was plenty of time for people to show whether they were loyal to the program or not.

John Chavis

Obviously I think enough of (Mayo) to be a starter. That's what we've done, and he's earned that. I feel good about him playing.

Becky Flynn

I feel like we're very well prepared (for districts). In the last week, we lost to three very tough teams (St. Basil, Villa Maria, Downingtown) and got two big wins (over Nazareth) back to back. I feel like the girls have earned a lot of respect.

Steve Hutchinson

Frankly, we get sick of hearing it. You'd think we'd earned respect. All we can do is keep winning.

Amy Pettibone

When there's instant success, there is this expectation that (making it that far) is the norm and that we're always going to be there. What a lot of people don't realize is that the region is a lot tougher than before. Every team that has made it this far has earned it.

Jacquie Fernandes

I have a spot on the team. Right now, I guess you could say I am a walk-on. But I will be treated just like any other player on the team. As far as a scholarship goes, he likes to reward players who work hard. Every player that has stayed with the program has earned a scholarship.

Troy Percival

I feel very fortunate for everything I've had. I worked hard to get it. I feel I earned it. I just wish it would have ended a little differently. I don't have any negative feelings about it at all at this point.

Brooke Smith

She was in a position that wasn't really ideal, but she's earned what she's gotten. She's talented and smart and she works really hard.

Alexandra Paul

I'm very much a lead by example person.

Andrew McCarthy

Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,

Sven Eriksson

Many times the words I say don't come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want.

Scott Lang

one more example of this mayor being out of touch with the neighborhoods.

Tom Megeath

Obviously, we can't go back in time and look at the Trapezium when it was still forming, so we try to find younger examples in the sky.

Ethan Hawke

My grandfather was a great example of his generation,

Mark Fuhrman

Now those are the two--two examples -- pimps, three. They're your third... probably the three most worthless type people in a large city.

Tony Stewart

Now, this year, all it's done is motivate us more. And today is an example of that.

Nora Volkow

One of the most powerful things that makes us feel good is when someone we admire, appreciate, for example, values us.

Bob Day

Medicaid is not a generous program in terms of who can receive services. We aren't a state that has a lot of fluff in the program in terms of who we cover.

Mark Hammond

She was very generous, also. She had a very generous soul.

Sir Serota

Sir Edwin Manton was one of the most generous benefactors in Tate's history,

Oriana Fallaci

I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?

Charlie Trotter

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

Mick Mandl

Wouldn't it be great if it was somebody down on their luck who got the $365 million? Hopefully, they would be generous and leave us a tip.

Edmund Burke

Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.

Emmylou Harris

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

Katie Holmes

He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend.

Jane Austen

One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading.

Clive Sinclair

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

Alexis Smith

There are so many more interesting things to think about than whether Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman got the roles I should have gotten.

Claire Tomalin

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

Larry Martin

When we lived in Memphis, Jane and I often talked about moving to Knoxville when we retired.

JJ Feild

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

David Sutcliffe

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

Rev. Barham

The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.

Richard Griffiths

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Albert Schweitzer

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Dennis Prager

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Elbert Hubbard

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

Eduardo Galeano

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Tony Bell

It just sets things up to look bad. Ideally, (Pye) could go to another department.

Charles Spurgeon

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

Charles Spurgeon

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Ed McBain

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.

Abraham Lincoln

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

Cathy Poole

She was a true sportsman. She was courteous. If she lost, she would say, 'Good game. Thanks for playing.' If she won, she was ecstatic.

Nigel Hamilton

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

Aaron Neville

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.