Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah MacLean

There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.

Kate Jansen

The mint taste disguises the Oreo completely. It should be more subtle. You can't smell or taste the chocolate.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Marcelo Porto

Our market was out of the game for two days, while there were losses abroad. It has readjusted prices in a moderate way. I had expected a worse day.

Joe Eberhardt

Our model mix, which was rejuvenated in the past months, and expected higher unit sales in the future are set to increase profitability automatically.

Joel Greenlee

Overall it was a pretty good weekend for us but I really expected us to get the win over Virginia. There were about three more matches that we should have won but that's how it goes sometimes. You can't give up back points like we did late in those matches.

Jacques Rogge

Overall, it's been what we expected ? not really what we had wished.

David Law

Overall, I'm happy with the job they did. I told them from day one I expected them to be in the championship game.

Jim Silver

Over $500 million last year was spent on Harry Potter toys and this year is expected to be even bigger.

Bobby Bowden

Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.

Elden Auker

Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.

Kara Walker

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Jane Austen

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Jesmyn Ward

I wanted to be my own heroine.

Kelly Ripa

Regis is not fired. He's just on special assignment. And we love each other.

Clare Balding

Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.

Jessica Alba

Paul loves the water. It seems like that's where he's the most happy.

Bryn Terfel

People have come up to me in the street saying 'Hey Meatloaf, I love that song you do, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad,'

Phil Magney

People just want to track their loved ones. It?s as simple as that.

John Harrigan

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

James Alexander

People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it.

Richard Walker

People immediately love them because they think they are a lot cleverer than they really are.

Luis Diaz

People here are paying thousands to get their loved ones killed.

Becca Fitzpatrick

GUESS WHERE I AM. CLUE? she texted back SWEAR U WON'T TELL A SOUL? U HAVE 2 ASK? I reluctantly texted,@ DINNER W. MARCIE'S DAD. #?@#$?!& MY MOM IS DATING HIM. TRAITOR! IF THEY GET MARRIED, U & MARCIE... COULD USE A LITTLE CONSOLATION HERE! DOES HE KNOW UR TEXTING ME? Vee asked. NO. THEY R INSIDE. I'M IN THE PARKING LOT ----COOPERSMITHS. THE PIMP. 2 GOOD 4 APPLEBEE'S, I SEE. I'M GOING 2 ORDER THE MOST EXPENSIVE THIN ON THE MENU. IF ALL GOES WELL,HIM GOING TO THROW HANK'S DRINK IN HIS FACE 2. ~Nora & Vee

Becca Fitzpatrick

Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I had to lull Mom and Hank into believing I was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If I exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black LOVE SUCKS tee, my plan would never get off the ground.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Bout time," she huffed, but her voice sounded thick and emotional too."I was at the hospital all day yesterday, but they wouldn't let me see you. I bolted past security but they called code ninetynine and chased me down, they escorted me out in handcuffs. The way I see it, the only criminal here is your mom. No visitors? I'm your best friend, or did she not get the memo every year for the past eleven? Next time I'm over, I'm going to lay into that woman." ~Vee

Becca Fitzpatrick

My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place." Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?" Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your mom isn’t going to let me step foot inside this place. I’ve seen the gun she keeps on the top shelf of the pantry.

B. B. King

I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty.

Billy Corgan

I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because it was true. I put aside fear of Father being angry with me. It's hard though; the world pales in comparison with the stature of a parent. In some small-consolation way, my parents feel I'm helping people by giving them something to identify with. They feel proud in a sort of reverse way. My mom's proud of the fact that lots of kids look up to me.

Bill Engvall

I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Stephen Schwartz

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

Will Champlin

It's liberating and rewarding to see your own ideas coming to fruition.

Brendon Urie

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.

Elizabeth Gillies

If you're passionate about something and stick with it, even if your friends aren't doing it, it'll pay off. It can be really rewarding to stick to your guns.

Jaime Camil

When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

Dallas Smith

I just want to have fun. It's just rewarding to get to this point.

James O'Boyle

It's very rewarding work. There's a lot of variety; I can sit here and do books, write checks, wash cars, garden, embalm. That's what makes it interesting.

Craig Biggio

This is the most rewarding season I've ever had.

Aaron Lowe

Being (here) has been wonderful. It's very rewarding after all of this time.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I need romance, that's what Netflix is for.

Bill Cosby

Romance is a different word than sexual contact.

C. S. Lewis

If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.

Antoine Fuqua

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Burt Reynolds

Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.

Aaron Eckhart

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Diane Kruger

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

Alex Flinn

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

Alden Ehrenreich

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Barry McGuigan

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

Azzedine Alaia

I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

B. B. King

Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.

B. B. King

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

C. S. Lewis

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Cecelia Ahern

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

Tom Lewis

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Daniela Hantuchova

I feel fantastic. It's something really special. Now I can concentrate on my singles career.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Cameron Diaz

It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.

Bryant H. McGill

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Enrique Pena Nieto

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.