Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gwen Stefani

I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?'

Tyler Cowen

For the very top earners, vision and inspiration are essential. You need those to become the next Steve Jobs, but perhaps not to be the highest paid dentist in Beverly Hills.

Kent Haruf

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.

Dominick Dunne

She was a gallant soul. I knew her from way back because Gig Young was a good friend of mine. I always think of her sitting in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, holding court, saying hello to people, being funny.

Leslie Howard

Yesterday I put on my Confederate uniform for the first time and looked like a fairy doorman at the Beverly Wiltshire - a fine thing at my age.

Mark Burnett

I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

Larry Greene

You'll have The Farm of Beverly Hills on your right, then over there's the valet parking. On the left, there's another great, upscale restaurant. It's all coming.

Simon Helberg

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

Donna Douglas

I was offered to do a night-time soap after The Beverly Hillbillies. There was so much I didn't want to do because of family values. It was a big hit in a couple weeks, but it didn't matter to me, because I wanted to do a certain caliber of work and didn't want to do garbage.

Jim Erickson

With the rovers we've actually been able to go look and pick the things we wanted to see whether it was up on top of hills or whether it was down inside the craters, you name it.

Keith Cole

We have really pushed them to get stronger on the hills and running longer distances. This race, in my mind, really showed that the training is starting to pay off handsomely.

Joanie Madden

I was looking at the last pictures I took, which was the hills of New Zealand and it just rolled out of me.

Trey Clark

He had a big tractor tire that he liked to jump in and roll down hills in.

Barbara Mikulski

Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Teddy Sears

My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.

Patrick Swayze

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

John Lieswyn

Make no mistake. These are the steepest hills that we race in America.

Charlie Chaplin

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

Charles Dudley Warner

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Charles de Lint

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

Charles Dickens

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Dickens

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.