Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

Jim Gaffigan

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

Suzanne Collins

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Suzanne Collins

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

Suzanne Collins

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

Suzanne Collins

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

Suzanne Collins

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Suzanne Collins

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

Suzanne Collins

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Antonio Guterres

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

William Shakespeare

Desperate times breed desperate measures

Horatio Nelson

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Miguel de Cervantes

Necessity urges desperate measures.

Steven Spielberg

Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky, but nothing they did was really illegal.

Richard Simmons

I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

Suzanne Collins

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

Suzanne Collins

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

Suzanne Collins

You're hideous, you know that, right?

Suzanne Collins

So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.

Suzanne Collins

Tick tock, this is a clock.

Sonia Braga

You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have.