Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Mencia

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

Thomas Steinbeck

When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find that the story tells me which voice it prefers, and that often changes as I go along. And in the end it really doesn't matter as long as the author can rig those voices all in harness to pull the same load.

Kourtney Kardashian

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules.

Edward P. Jones

In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.

Enrico Colantoni

From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'

Jane Austen

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

Bailee Madison

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

Bruce Springsteen

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

Caitlin Thomas

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

Phil Schiller

We have received very few calls from customers reporting this problem - we do not think this is a widespread issue. If customers are concerned about scratching we suggest they use one of the many iPod Nano cases to protect their iPod.

Susan Kniep

There is no doubt. Next year there will be an influx of calls to us demanding petitions.

Jerry Saltz

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

Tahyna Tozzi

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

Jan Koum

When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.

Ewa Kopacz

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

Richard Dracott

We did not disclose all the information that we could have and that is the fundamental difference now. We fully publish all our characterized errata and we don't try to make any judgment calls on what the impact is to the end user. That's for them to decide.

John Harris

We'd have 50 or 60 calls each day from all counties and other states,

Lynn Jurich

For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Zhang Ning

We have no specific expectations about how far we will go now. We just want the players to keep learning from the experience of taking part in these international matches.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Annette Brown

We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or reading information to them.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Tara VanDerveer

We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well.

Brian Eno

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

George Best

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

Bill Kelly

Wow, all I can say is it's a fabulous contribution. If I knew I wouldn't tell you, but I would go and thank her personally.

Denny Green

Tony is a fabulous coach, ... He was ready for his head job. I just think it's all about opportunity.

Grace Corrigan

She left a fabulous legacy. It's making people feel good about themselves, making kids feel they're important, making teachers be proud of themselves.

Dan Campbell

She threw a fabulous game -- I'm very pleased with the way she threw. She showed me a lot. She's a competitor, but she really showed me a lot.

Philip Dick

The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

Greg Murtha

We had a fabulous morning. It was knee-deep to waist-deep powder.

Kimora Lee Simmons

It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.

Carol Leifer

Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

Carol Shields

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

Carlos Castaneda

The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

Carl Bernstein

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

C. S. Lewis

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

Aaron Sorkin

Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.

Alan Turing

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

Alan Turing

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

Alan Shepard

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky

A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.

Pat Schroeder

We didn't see another option. No one wants to sue a two-ton gorilla. I wish we didn't have to do it.

Joe Altschule

Can you sue the city? Yes. Can you successfully sue? Maybe.

Seth Rogen

It's my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don't know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it's something that has to be taken care of.

Sandra Lee

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

Ted Morgan

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Jimmy Cliff

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Luke Bracey

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Lisa Kiser

We're still telling him over and over again.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Baltasar Gracian

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Antonio Gramsci

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Jewel

If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Alan Ball

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.

Colleen Segarra

When you touch the animal, all you feel is bone.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

Charles Kuralt

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

David Hall

No. I don't know how to get in touch with them now. I do know that some of them were wounded in the same battle.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Kent Kersten

We have some bruises and we may have one or two wrestlers out. We were injury-free when we won the duals championship in 2003. It's not the same this year.

Abby Wambach

I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

Diane von Furstenberg

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

E. B. White

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.