Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Maiara Walsh

My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

Linda Wallace

Like any vibrant economy, the house prices have gone up. But more than that, we're facing a bit of a housing crunch.

Chris Vance

Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

I. Stone

Life is too short to be really bitter about anything for so long. Sometimes, you have to turn the page. After all, he found a great career in Houston, and he made the Hall of Fame. He should get on with his life.

Jennifer Saunders

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Stephen Ames

Life is a bit easier not worrying about the future of where the family is going to be or what is happening in the future.

Kevin Kodama

Luckily, the north side got a bit of a break last night.

Debra Alich

So many families live from paycheck to paycheck. So few have that nest egg anymore.

Denis Diderot

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

S. Hughes

There are too many things being funneled into the mayor's office, too many eggs in one basket. We want to delegate.

Isabel Gillies

My mother worked full-time running a foundation, but she found all the time in the world to have supper ready every night, feed us shirred eggs on the weekends, and produce a leg of lamb for my fourth-grade Bedouin feast at school.

Mark Kiesel

We are putting our eggs into the two- to five-year spot on the curve.

Ben Stein

I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

A. J. McLean

My crotch is like scrambled eggs

Jim Olson

Those eggs have been sitting in the high marsh for as long as two years waiting for something like this.

Cervantes Saavedra

Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.

Kristin Cast

No one in high school wants to be put under the spotlight. You don't want to be that person who stands up for the other people because then the people who are going after those people are gonna come after you.

Simon Cowell

Let me tell you who's gonna be in the finals. The bald-headed kid (Daughtry) and the guy with gray hair (Hicks).

Jim Daley

Milt sure has had a great year, and he's gonna have a great second half of the year, and I hope he explodes on Sunday.

Bill Withers

When I look at you And the world's all right with me Just one look at you And I know it's gonna be A lovely day.

Joe Carnahan

If I was ever gonna remake a Peckinpah film, it would be 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.' That's my favorite Peckinpah film.

Helen Marshall

The place where they're planning to put the stadium is a place that needs rehabilitation and it's gonna be tough for us to get the money to do that, ... This way, we will have something that's positive here.

John Mattos

On paper, it looks like we don't have a shot in heck to do anything in this championship. But it isn't gonna be that way.

Randy Clark

I was gonna watch television, I was going to have my breakfast, I was just going to stay home and relax.

Chloe Sevigny

I was really shocked at myself for signing on without knowing where it was gonna go, or much of anything else.

John Davis

No one is hurt, that's the important thing -- remember that.

Charles Phillips

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

Susan Carney

I can't remember when we've had so many three-setters. They just don't give up. They play right to the end.

John Mendel

I can't remember when it wasn't really a rough year.

Phill Laursen

I can't remember really how this started. It just happened.

Jeff Greene

I can't remember in 1980 who I voted for. I wish I could tell you.

Bill Hancock

From what I remember about Des Moines and its hotels, ... (The metro) will do fine.

Dan Rice

I don't remember voting. What's the difference? It passed.

J. Taylor

I don't remember things about that play, to be honest, ... I think I was in a zone or something.

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Laura Harper

When they were about to say it, I was chanting, ?C. Lang,' with the rest of the team.

Jim Tutwiler

I would be surprised if it stays on the site rest of the day.

Bill Stoneman

I wish he were here with the rest of the guys.

Becky Sarro

She's made some vibes that it isn't something that she wants to do for the rest of her life, so we'll see.

Rex Ryan

If we can do that the rest of the season, that would be super.

Dennis Dacus

If they had (Johnson) it would be them and the rest of us.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Steve Relford

I'd just like for him to suffer for the rest of his life,

Alexandra Fuller

But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.

William Wordsworth

Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.

Keith Mason

Like any other kids, we all got into trouble. Having rock fights, things like that.

Pat Simmons

So it's a little R&B, a little rock 'n' roll, a little blues, a little folk, a little salsa, everything.

Mike McCready

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

Charles Portis

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

Dimitar Sasselov

We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

Eddie Van Halen

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

David Bowie

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

John Oates

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

Mercedes Ruehl

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

Alan Bradley

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

Elizabeth Banks

I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

John Kosmina

We didn't want to spoil a party, we just wanted to win a game.

Anjelica Huston

I was actually in my mid-30s when I got the Oscar. And yeah, it does kind of spoil you in terms of the kind of stuff you look for.

Larry Csonka

Don't swallow any of that. It'll spoil the taste of the bourbon.

Jim Messina

We've put the word out for a lot of our friends in Hawaii, but we're not going to spoil the surprise,

Carlos Martinez

I'm not too worried, but I want to be sure. I don't want to go on and (possibly) spoil my season.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Melissa Gregory

We still have the ticket he never used.

Hugo Burge

Those are important in making ticket decisions. The better you do them, the more tickets you will sell.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Ben Affleck

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

Douglas Coupland

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Amber Heard

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Donald Barthelme

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

Larry Peterson

I think she had to get a ticket to get back in the ballpark.

Erik Paulsen

Minnesotans are ticket splitters. They look to the candidate, not the party, which is the way it should be, and that's only going to help me.