Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock's!

Jane Kaczmarek

LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!

Mike McKee

Lynden is a disciplined team. Brian has done a good job there and the kids have bought into it.

Paul Cooper

Many people bought a PC just before Y2K. They were worried that their existing machines wouldn't work, and so they upgraded just to be safe,

Andy Miller

Sebastian's just too classy and too sophisticated to get bought by anyone.

Dom Capers

So, it's not Ed McMahon? Darn. And I bought magazines. Who's this Reggie Bush guy anyway?

Chris Rock

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.

Bill Halbrehder

One of the things we talked about was to get that talent she has to always be ready and play through those lulls. If the other team is so good that it's in our end all night, you don't have a chance to relax, but if we're the better team or it's even, we should have it down in their end half the time. She's been extremely alert. She's bought into it.

John Sculley

One thing about Apple is they have these fanboys - as I always say, 'Sell to the people who love us.' For example when they came up with iPad mini, everyone who had an iPad went out and bought a mini as well.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Nat Friedman

Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.

Kevin Rollins

Much of the industry's quarterly growth was at the low ends of the desktop and notebook categories, which offer little if any profitability. Dell met its operating targets by pursuing profitable growth.

Kathy Hall

One of the things that we probably do different than most motels is that our front desk does the laundry.

Mary Kaye

My husband and I saw the Theodore Roosevelt hat rack, ... Mrs. Kearns' writing desk is here and so is Sen. Kearns' rocking chair. We thought growing up surrounded by history would be a privilege.

Bob Hansmann

Maybe it's because North American workers have been drilled to reduce help desk calls, but it's a fact that they're less likely than Germans to call.

Tom Stoppard

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

Jenny Nimmo

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

Jan Brett

I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.

Brent Hanbury

So if you can automate this, the end-user can have a self-service environment. They're going to get their password reset, so they're happy. And your help desk people will be more productive.

Will Pearson

Mental Floss is what it is. It's about people learning information they always thought they should know.

Bob Beamon

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Loretta Lynn

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Alan Vega

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

Jodi Smallcomb

We are a little over halfway there. For our last fundraising event, we want to push it over the top.

Frank Haith

We're above.500 (in the ACC) at the halfway point and you have to be pleased with that. But we have to understand that we're a long way from where we want to be.

Kristy Curry

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Schatzi Hageman

He was halfway red and halfway loving it.

Bill Gates

We're only halfway to what we think we can achieve,

Don Ward

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

Italo Calvino

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Robert Osborne

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

Chris Elliott

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

Chris Cuomo

You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe.

Chris Frantz

I'm kind of a social person and I enjoy corresponding with people and checking out their Facebook pages. And it really doesn't take much time. Ten minutes in the morning, 10 minutes at night and a little bit during the day. It's just something I really enjoy.

Charles Spurgeon

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Charles Spurgeon

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

Mike Adras

Obviously, that would have energized our guys. It's a play that I know energizes Ruben, and it did just the opposite to him. That was a big momentum-changer in the first half.

Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Dean Ornish

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

David Bowie

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

Iris Apfel

I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

Source Unknown

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

Edgar Degas

Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

Taissa Farmiga

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

Jonathan Crisp

The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Jay Wright

We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Jaromir Jagr

I saw a lot of pictures but I don't understand it.

Karina Lombard

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

David Harsanyi

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

David Horsey

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

E. B. White

This was a scary and rare occurrence, not a pattern.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

Kelly Hawthorne

We are on a roll right now. We just want to keep it going.

Dwight Schultz

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

Diablo Cody

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

Brad Rex

We're getting on a roll at the right time.

Kara Walker

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Tori Amos

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Rob Kurz

We're on a roll right now. We can't wait to play another game.

Capt. Ball

If someone's challenging you, you let it roll off.

James Matthews

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.

Megan Smith

Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code.

Steve Frady

Obviously, you don't want to see a second collapse.

Kelli Johnson

We had better shot selection in the second half.

Yash Chopra

When I come to England, I feel as if I am in my second home.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Pavel Datsyuk

I can't play with one leg. I need a second leg, too.

Antawn Jamison

Gilbert told me going into the second half, 'You can't do anything if you don't let it ride,'? He shouldn't have to tell me that.

David Jarolim

If Bayern win at Bremen it is better for us as we want to keep second spot.

John Rhys-Davies

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

George Bernard Shaw

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

Friedrich Schiller

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

Rick Riordan

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

Robert Plant

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

Virginia Postrel

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Yehuda Amichai

And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged ones.

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Marcus Thomas

Tired, basically. And I really didn't understand how come we weren't stopping them.

Walter Kirn

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Josh Fodor

He was stopping everything. We had a lot of opportunities but couldn't get any in.

Amy Winehouse

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Ottessa Moshfegh

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

Charles Spurgeon

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Dave Barry

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

Edna O'Brien

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Janet Frame

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Carl Sandburg

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

Alice Hoffman

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

Chyler Leigh

I'm always worried that lipstick is on my teeth or caked in the corners of my mouth.

Christopher McDougall

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

Stephen Jay Gould

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Dorothy L. Sayers

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

Bjork

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Jack Olsen

We're turning over every rock, so to speak.

Dawn French

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Albert Camus

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.