Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

John Grogan

I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.

Tyra Banks

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

Sue Kidd

I grew up in a small town in Georgia, and I must confess that I was mining my memories of that small town. I can vividly see a lot of the scenery in terms of my own place.

Lee Siegel

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

The Talmud

Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession

Nimrat Kaur

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.

Mel Torme

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

Peter Fleming

When I first met Stanley, I said, 'If you did this, you should confess to it, because it'll help. But he said, 'If my innocence will cost me my life, so be it.

Italo Calvino

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Lord Byron

My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears.

William T. Vollmann

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans holds a special place in my heart, because it is where I grew up,

Michael Gillman

Obviously, this is not what we wanted. But the result is not what's most important. We learned a lot this year and grew as a team.

George Romero

When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.

Tyra Banks

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

Daryl Sabara

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

Charles Spurgeon

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

Charles Petzold

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

Diane Sawyer

Memory diffuses fact.

Diane Sawyer

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Diane Lane

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

Diane Keaton

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

Dennis Wilson

They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.

Denis Johnson

Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change.

Denis Diderot

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Siddharta Moersjid

Mining and milling operations have been temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure. The Indonesian authorities are working to resolve the situation in a peaceful and expeditious manner.

Tom Rathbun

We need something that's going to work for the Appalachian states; any place there was mining before the 1970s, there's a real need for reclamation. And that money still only cleans up higher-priority sites; it doesn't even touch on all the non-coal quarries in need of reclamation.

Chris Kilham

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.

John Burnside

Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.

Marshall Hamilton

You'd be hard-pressed to find any mining operation in the world that has a better safety record.

Henry David Thoreau

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

Mitch Albom

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

Dennis Bailey

I did a small part, he's the one who did the big part.

Scott Kahan

For small investors, they probably aren't the place to be.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Courtney Riepenoff

She's small and she's inexperienced . . . but she's feisty.

Douglas Jerrold

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Dustin Lynch

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

J. Taylor

No one in town has a seven-member band,

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Estelle Parsons

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.