Famous Quotes & Sayings

American Proverb

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Robert Gottlieb

Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway.

Bill Vaughan

As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

Kaley Cuoco

I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

Timothy McVeigh

He walked back and put his hands up to the glass (against my hands), ... He smiled ... and off he went.

David Patten

He knows the magnifying glass is on him right now. We have to be very supportive of him right now. There is a lot of pressure on him. He needs to make those throws.

Kelly Rowland

We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.

Jay Dillon

From what I understand, he is a good-sized 9-year-old - he's not a small child. He had already knocked the officer's glasses off, and hit and kicked him.

Larry Bortniker

Just make sure they have a glass of wine first.

Fuzzy Zoeller

or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.

Jordan Spieth

Stats are important to me, especially the ones related to scoring. You're going to miss fairways and greens out here, so how you play from the sand really matters.

Roger Bailey

Our previous payout schedule was 20 years old, much like other series' still are. It was time for an increase, and this distribution plan rewards each and every team that takes the green flag.

Barry McGuire

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

Cadillac Williams

I was just looking to get a first down and things opened up. The linebackers kind of ran over the top and from there, there was nothing but green grass.

Daniel Chopra

I think someone who is on will post really low scores this week. The greens are perfect. Somebody who is on is going to hit a lot of shots close.

Jill Davis

Live yellow, go green or live green, go yellow.

David Hogan

I still miss the South, the collard greens and the Bulldogs,

Al Gore

I think his legacy is going to be the natural environment, improving the green spaces of our country,

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

John Tortorella

We're tired of the 25-per-cent rule. We need an occasional goddamn save.

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Steve Forbes

You can't do it with an occasional speech, you've got to do it every day.

Jeffrey Hunter

It was more rugged than I had anticipated. It's beautiful. Sort of a frontier. The most you hear, other than the birds, are occasional planes passing overhead.

Max Lucado

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

Walt Frazier

Red would get in your face. But not in the press.

Bill Shankly

Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.

Bernadette Peters

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

Arsene Wenger

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Roberta Anding

Just as there are more antioxidants in red wine versus Chardonnay, the same is true for beer.

Wendy Larry

I wish I had my red shoes on. There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Daron Rahlves

I'd like to be wearing the red (leader's) bib in downhill.

Luke Zeller

Rebounding has been one of the big things we have worked on all season. It has been a total team effort.

Mark Ellis

Sure, we had a lot of injuries. But a lot of teams have injuries. We can't use it as an excuse.

James Allen

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

Ray Collins

Our team is one of the most competitive teams in the nation.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jon Heacock

I think this team as a whole, have an understanding. They have had to play in this conference, and they know what's happening.

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

C. S. Lewis

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Bernard Berenson

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Arsene Wenger

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

Al Gore

Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.

Charles Babbage

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.