Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caitlin Thomas

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

Charles Williams

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

Dick Dale

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Carlos Mencia

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

Charisma Carpenter

When I was eight years old, or I may have been younger, my aunt picked me up and threw me in the pool and I didn't know how to swim. It was like, "Conquer your fear and just get on with it." It must have made an impact on me.

Charles M. Schulz

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

Billy Wilder

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

Karolyn Grimes

My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.

Karolyn Grimes

My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

Jo Nata

We are prepared to do something dramatic again. Don't forget, we took over parliament and held hostages for what we believed in.

Martin Jacques

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.

Bryce Davison

We always believed we might have an outside shot (at earning an Olympic berth) and that if we did our jobs and trained hard on and off the ice it could be a possibility.

Jimbo Davis

We always believed we could come back, and once we got to their bullpen, we knew we were gonna score a lot of runs. It was just a matter of whether we'd run out of innings.

Craig Davis

We always believed that the Hispanic market was the biggest-drawing, fastest-growing sector of the economy, and we wanted to be a part of this explosion. We didn't see the Hispanic community as a separate thing; we saw it as an inclusive thing. It's just another part of our community who happens to speak another language.

Wendy Anae

We always believed in the kids. It was just getting used to our system. They worked hard, and always played with heart. I think they deserve everything they've gotten.

Ted Leonsis

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

M. H. Abrams

We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

Tim Finchem

We've always believed we're prepared to do it, ... We can handle it in short order if we need to.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Francis Bacon

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Brad Wilson

We don't have any details on what caused it,

Toni Atkins

What has caused the damage is Ms. Atkins' misconduct, not the uncovering of Ms. Atkins' misconduct.

Bob Hofman

We gutted it out. We had a poor first half. But we played a lot better in the second half. We really picked up on defense and caused a lot of turnovers.

Mark Davis

Union Pacific apologizes for the inconveniences caused to Texarkana. Our hearts go out to the family that lost a person as a result of the derailment.

William Comanor

U.S. Steel was a continual drag on the economy for the next 50 years and caused substantial harm,

Chris Thompson

She didn't know me. She didn't know my family, ... She just handed me the envelope. She said, 'This is for you and your family,' and she walked away.

Thaddeus Kennedy

She wasn't burned. But when we handed her over to EMS, she was pretty lifeless.

Bhagavad Gita

Thus handed down in succession the royal sages knew this (Karma-yoga). After a long time the science of Karma-yoga was lost from this earth.

Jack Kirby

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

Manuel Luna

More than 30 human remains have been handed over to be identified.

Matt Winkler

I can't lie. That was a huge motivational factor. We talked about not playing Fieldcrest basketball. They handed us our lunch (earlier).

Mary Johnson

He is the same in person as he is in public. He didn't have anything handed to him on a silver platter.

Anson Mount

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

Lance Cutler

When we walk into most restaurants and are handed the wine list, we are appalled.

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Nicholas Burns

We remember what happened in March 2004, ... There is no place for that in U.N.-sponsored negotiations.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Edward Keon

What has happened over the past several months is valuations have come down a lot to where we think stocks are pretty reasonably valued here.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all. We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all, ... We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

O. Singh

Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.

Joe Linklater

We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Gary Carter

We're 20 years older, so it's not quite going to be the same.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

George Meyer

We are a 24-hour department. If you see something amiss, report it immediately. Timing is very important,

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Ronald Biggs

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

Robert Gottlieb

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

Claire Tomalin

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Greg Evans

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

David Hewson

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Tim Crouch

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Jim Doyle

I feel very strongly that that's not where we should be going with this,

Lloyd Church

I feel strongly he'll be able to play somewhere.

Brad Cashman

I don't feel as strongly as I did before on that. Basically, I shouldn't have made that comment.

Kate Bush

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Stanley

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

Alan Greenspan

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

Alan Bradley

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

Alan Arkin

"What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves."