Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Al Pacino

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Kaline

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

Akio Morita

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

David Popenoe

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

David R. Ellis

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

Catherine Helen Spence

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Caroline B. Cooney

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

Peter Lilley

The possibility of you being able to successfully launder 50 million pounds in Britain is fairly minimal unless you literally break it up into trenches of 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 or something like that.

Kyra Sedgwick

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

Dave Baseggio

We're learning how to win by doing the little things. The season is a roller coaster ride, and the key is not to get too high or too low. We're not where we want to be, but if we keep playing the way we've been playing, we'll be where we need to be.

Greg Koch

We are riding the temperature roller coaster here,

John Cornyn

means we're in for a roller coaster ride.

Rusty Wallace

I feel like I'm going on my first roller coaster ride.

Joe Crede

When the fans are on me, they have every right to get on me, because I wasn't playing up to par. To me, I just kept getting more and more frustrated. It has been an up-and-down roller coaster for me in the Big Leagues.

Mark Shapiro

I think this industry got drunk on roller coasters. Big roller coasters simply do not get the return on investments that they used to.

Mitchel McLaughlin

It has been a very significant journey, a roller coaster at times,

Randy Houser

My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

Brett Taylor

Wayne Robertson is probably a couple of weeks away while Rohan Couch joined in a few drills and should be right to go next week.

Tom Holland

I completely and utterly rely on my mum. Without my mum, I would not be anywhere at all. I'd literally just be a couch potato.

Tim Finchem

I'm a fan of the power nap. About twice a week, I'll stretch out on a little couch in my office for 20 minutes. I don't need a wake-up call; I pop right up, feeling refreshed.

Richard Fixaris

She smelled the smoke, called 911 and went in and saw the couch was in flames. He was on the couch.

Richard Fixaris

She smelled the smoke, called 911, and went in and saw the couch was in flames. He was on the couch.

Lynn Shelton

You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison?

Tim Heidecker

I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.

Vonda Shepard

There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.

Larry Woolsey

Maybe we can get some couch potatoes in the outdoors.

Ken Burns

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

C. J. Mahaney

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Rod Bourgeois

We still worry that, at the stock's current valuation, implicit expectations seem somewhat steep relative to the guidance we anticipate.

Kevin Flanagan

We still think the fundamentals will come back and rise from current levels.

Jim Copeland

We're in pretty good shape, considering the current landscape.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Tim Ryan

Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Leon Max

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

Wendy Kopp

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Alan Moore

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

Anita Borg

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

Steve Jobs

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.

Donald Rumsfeld

have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

David Sedaris

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

James A. Moore

Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.

Erin McKean

A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.

Damien Hirst

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

Drew Brees

Me and Gates, we laughed in the weight room today because that wasn't our 'A' game,

Evan Goldberg

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.

Chris Collins

We laughed over a new mobile phone which neither of us could make work.

Alan King

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

Manolo Saiz

Someone laughed at me when I said it, but I think that Roberto is a rider for second efforts.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Michael Brown

We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,

Dave Nutting

We're a young team and I think we learned a valuable lesson. And we'll know what it takes to win in the playoffs next year. I couldn't be prouder of the guys.

Melissa Leo

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Courtney Beasley

We're just going to get better. We learned a lot as a team, and I know I learned a lot as a player. Now, we have to take what we've learned and get better.

Tracy Morgan

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

King Bach

I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.

Junior Seau

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Campbell Newman

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Marianne Williamson

When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Kenneth Fisher

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Edward Abbey

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

David Byrne

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

George Wald

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Pat Roberts

there is material in the report that the public should know.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Tom Kenny

There has been a lot of testing done on the racking strength provided by different types of spray foams, ... And the strength provided by closed-cell foams can be substantial.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Henry F. Ashurst

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

George Papandreou

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

Dave Wannstedt

It's what we've talked about for two months; it's a roller coaster, things go up and down,

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Kevin Hart

Really, I don't like roller coasters.

Robert Fulghum

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

Rush Limbaugh

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

David Brenner

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Earl Weaver

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

Eliza Coupe

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

Agnes de Mille

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.