Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Andre

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

Carl Andre

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

Alan Kay

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Charles Dickens

Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure.

Shimon Peres

We shall not be able to fly, to walk, to come out, to drink water, if in this world there will be an intervention of cruel, crazy, fanatic people that are using modern equipment in order to kill indiscriminately,

Aaron Patzer

I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.

Brian Clough

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

Bret Easton Ellis

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

Karen Johnson

We want everyone to come out and take part, because it's going to be a very exciting event, one in which families can participate together.

Rick Hartzell

There are a lot of exciting pieces to this game. I think it will be great fun.

Erin Horn

We're just trying to get people to come out and watch and Florida State will be an exciting game.

Byron Katie

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

Dita Von Teese

I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they're not just looking for the latest, most normal thing.

John Updike

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

Michael Boulware

The possibility to play this game is very exciting and very motivating. The play I got hurt on, I played a little tentative, and I think it made me realize that if you played tentative you're going to get hurt.

Lexi Thompson

I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.

Noel Fisher

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

Carlos Ghosn

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

Jonathan Davis

When Family Values first started it felt like music was fresh and exciting. We want to recreate that same feeling for our fans, and offer them a full day of fun and some great music.

Joyce Kesse

We want her back. Our family is aching.

Agnes Smedley

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

C. S. Lewis

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Don Walchuk

We were trying to get on our feet before we lost it.

Alan Shepard

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

Alan Shearer

People say he doesn't score a lot of goals with his head, but does he really have to with the ability he has in his feet? He makes spectacular goals look easy. His technique is fantastic. (on Thierry Henry)

Charlotte Bronte

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

Charles W. Pickering

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

Richard G. Scott

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

Bret Easton Ellis

And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.

Djuna Barnes

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

Randy Couture

I'd like to see the sport grow to fill that void between the top echelon fighters and the young guys.

Ellen Key

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Anand Gopal

For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.

Nancy Gibbs

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

Dave Legeno

I play guitar; you'll find me at home strumming 'Vincent' on the guitar. I also read a lot of poetry, and Shakespeare was my first love, which was why I got into acting. A lot of the fighters are intelligent!

Gregorio Rosal

We are not saying that none of our fighters are surrendering but with that big number, that is not true.

James Doolin

He was too nice a guy. He just didn't have the dirty, nasty, mean streak fighters should have. That hurt him a lot as a fighter.

Peter Pace

Marines are very good at fighting, ... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.

Cato June

We have a lot of fighters on this team. There's no quit in us. We've been down before. We'll buckle down, get out there and handle business.

Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carlos Castaneda

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Alan K. Simpson

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan Kay

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Charlotte Bronte

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Charles Sumner

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles de Gaulle

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Sgt. Delaney

We have to go through them. There's hours of work left to do.

Dr. Whyte

We have to get them that medicine within three hours of the onset of symptoms, which is the challenge.

Aaron Tveit

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Steve Letarte

We've spent the last three months getting ready for this race. If one more hour makes that much of a difference, then shame on us.

Jan Egeland

The problem with tsunamis is that it takes hours -- or minutes -- for this wall of water to come, and there's just very, very little time.

Thomas Perez

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

Thierry Mugler

I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.

David Kim

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

David Cummings

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

George M. Cohan

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Jeb Bush

some spirit of patriotism rather than partisanship will prevail.

Janeane Garofalo

How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Stephanie Zimbalist

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

David Alan Grier

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

Ezra Klein

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Chang-Rae Lee

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Gelett Burgess

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Gregory Peck

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Aaron Sorkin

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Brian Eno

American television really is pathetic.

Dave Chappelle

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

David Shuster

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

James Wolk

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

James Wolk

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Clyde Edgerton

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Cheryl Strayed

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

Edward Abbey

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Brigitte Bardot

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Denis Waitley

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Bryant H. McGill

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.