Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Rowen

We believe we're moving ever closer to the light at the end of the valuation tunnel on eBay. We find it interesting and amusing to note that as investors' risk/reward ratio had dramatically improved, the market has become increasingly jittery about the future prospects for eBay.

Aaron McGruder

Ultimately I think everyone draws their own line of what's shocking and what is inappropriate in different places. For you, some 10-year-old kids talking about hoes may not (be) that big of a deal. But someone out there is gonna flip. There's no way to know. So I just try to deliver an amusing and decent story and leave the shock and the awe to whatever people have in their own heads.

Rose McCaulay

Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is t

Cher

I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.

Kailash Kher

What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.

Roxane Gay

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

Rachel Sklar

When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

Lesley Stahl

But don't you find this interesting that the one big area where gay men are more like straight men is in sex? I mean, that is?both amusing and odd.

Kate Delhagen

I find it particularly amusing -- and frustrating on behalf of the pioneers who have been selling online for years -- that brick-and-mortar guys who announce the opening of their e-store see a huge one-day run-up. Of course, patience brings rewards, and most of those one-day wonders have returned to more normal prices.

Morgan Hallett

Let's just say that when you put on those feathers it isn't hard. You just have to tap into the side of you that is screaming to jump out.

Tim Collins

Many of you are probably surprised I have neither feathers nor horns.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Dutch Proverb

Pick the goose as long as it has feathers

Phil Frame

The quality of the Web cam is so good you can see their feathers move up and down as they breathe. This is pretty remarkable.

Johnny Miller

We were very close. We hunted everything with hair and feathers together.

Emily Dickinson

Hope is a thing with feathers

George Herbert

Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.

Luke Mitchell

I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

Bertrand Russel

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery

Fritz Lang

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

George Benson

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

Chris Squire

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Clive Sinclair

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

Elsa Peretti

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

Gareth Bale

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

Kevin Cox

We're doing a much better job in Indiana being prepared and collaborating, which speaks highly of the involved agencies.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Dr. Coats

We had not had highly pathogenic avian influenza in the U.S. for over 20 years.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Donna Jones

She was a quite a lady. And a leader. Everyone spoke so highly of her.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Lenny Klompus

When Secretary (Tom) Ridge was here, everyone was saying we were rated triple-A.

Terry Semel

This will be a film ... that will be rated R,

Terry Semel

look more and more like a portal. And as a portal, it probably would be rated No. 4.

Day One

We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.

Patricia Vance

Congratulations for selling a lot of violent video games, I didn't sell them, sir. I just rated them.

David Davis

He was always encouraging me. He just told me I was better suited for football.

Mark Kelly

Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door.

Pete Mackanin

I think he's more suited for the bullpen. I've been wrong before about players, and I'd like for him to show he's a starter.

Samantha Fox

At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

Mark Kelly

I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks.

P. J. O'Rourke

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.