Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Maury Harris

We believe that the Fed will require both consistent solid hiring and a rise in inflation before it begins to lift rates.

Nicholas Meyer

We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man, so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest.

Jackson Brown

Where the touch of the lover ends And the soul of the friend begins There's a need to be separate and a need to be one And a struggle neither wins.

Pankaj Patel

It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

Brian Sabean

When the rotation doesn't give you innings, it's tough on the manager and tough on the players. Most playoff teams have consistent staffs, and it begins with the starters.

Steve Boone

We made a few critical mistakes, but we never gave up. No disrespect to Shepherd Hill, but our kids know our league schedule begins with Hudson. You never want to walk away with a loss, especially on opening night, but we'll find some positives in this one.

Robert Casey

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

Travis Bradberry

Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.

James E. Faust

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

Charles Simic

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

J. M. Roberts

She provides instant defense. And she can get a steal at any time.

Andrew Motion

The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

Lisa Unger

I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them.

Chad Hurley

People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

Francis deSouza

We are looking at integrating instant messaging in every application we can.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is no nature in an instant.

Charles Stross

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Betty Wright

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Alan Light

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Barry White

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

Diana Ross

I have never gotten into the label thing.

Bruce Springsteen

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

Brian Setzer

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

Tift Merritt

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.