Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Mencia

It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant.

Charlie Daniels

As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Charles Stanley

(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

Ann Davis

We use many skylights, which provide a bright, well-lit home. Most of the homes also have at least one side to the house which is visible and has windows and doors for a more conventional look,

Brian Eno

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

Brandon Boyd

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

Dianne Feinstein

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Kathy Collins

She's good. She's at home at this point. She's recovering from her injuries. She has some facial bruising and some lacerations to the back of her head.

Don Lemon

When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.

Taha Champsi

To see results you have to keep getting the same service, not just treat a facial or massage as a luxury. You have to incorporate it into your life.

Rich Cohen

The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.

Pam Grier

Yeah, but people aren't comfortable with a woman who looks very masculine or rides a motorcycle or wears leather or has facial hair or has short hair.

Fan Bingbing

Also, I use facial masks diligently. I use at least two a day - one for moisturizing and one for whitening. I think I go through at least 600 sheets of facial masks every year.

Henry Hall

Jim will not make it but Michael, who has a facial injury, will play. And Scott, who has been training with us, will help out by being on the bench.

Mike Wilton

There are some things that are really hard to see (on video), like facial expressions. That's important. That shows how he reacts. That shows what kind of teammate he is.

Jim Tracy

I was glad to see him standing and no facial swelling.

Dave Lockett

From an organizational standpoint, there haven't been any discussions; he's still firmly entrenched (here).

Condoleezza Rice

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

Stanley Fischer

The recovery is not firmly in place. There is no reason to withdraw stimulus right now. The need is to make sure that the recovery in Japan is self-sustained -- and that means it's hard to see any good reason for monetary policy to tighten.

Jiang Zemin

We will firmly ... safeguard the Hong Kong residents' rights and freedoms in accordance with the law,

Cecily Strong

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.

Tamara Tunie

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

Brian Young

He was firmly opposed to oppression and he recognized God in everyone.

Jonathan Klein

I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

Michael Leunig

All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising.

John McLean

We don't have any power so we?re using headlights, but actually it has a nice gloomy feel to it.

Source Unknown

There is no better way to spend a gloomy day, then to sleep it all away

Charlie Sexton

Ever wanting. Ever longing. Never-ending blue, ... So I'll take the inspiration with the gloom because usually where there's a tear, there's a tune.

Bruce Buchanan

It's not inevitable that he will stand in gloom forever.

Kazunori Jinnai

As long as Prime Minister Mori insists on staying, a gloomy mood will linger.

Karl Philipp Moritz

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

Clare Short

I am very gloomy about the Middle East.

Brian Schweitzer

When he goes out to meet people, he doesn't come off real,

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Jessica Biel

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Uzo Aduba

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

Jimmy Swaggart

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Bill Brewer

We want that little patch that goes on our (letter) jackets.

John Fredriksen

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

Janice Dickinson

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

William Shakespeare

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

Samuel Coleridge

When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.

Melvin Watkins

What he told us is, it's an opportunity to get back to playing basketball. All the speculation was a heavy burden.

Edmund Phelps

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Broderick Crawford

I was always the second heavy.

August Wilson

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Cary Sherman

Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation. But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action.

Soma Somasegar

But the processes out there, I think, are too heavy weight.

Robert Mintz

Obviously they are taking a look at the evidence. They must be heavy into deliberations.

Andrew Motion

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

Mike Browning

Wow. An instant classic, huh? You got a treat, I got a treat, the whole nation got a treat watching those two players.

Charles Simic

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

J. M. Roberts

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Heidi Range

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

Rich McKay

I don't remember a proposal on instant replay that sought to open up all penalties for review.

William Ackman

I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll get it over the long term and that's just fine.

Richard C. Armitage

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

Bubba Watson

It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.

Graham Moore

When I first starting writing, and no one was paying me, in order to feel like I had a real job, I would get out of bed, put on a jacket and tie every morning, and sit down at my desk.

Sarah Hill

I wear my jacket pretty much all day. A lot of people are.

Don Johnson

I'm still waiting for him to rock the white jacket with the rolled-up sleeves. I think it'll happen.

Kristine Fauerbach

You'll see some suede and leather jackets out there, but the linings are silk. Everything is about silk.

Anna Torv

I am a sucker for jackets!

Laura Seeger

It's going to be strange walking in in my purple jacket and sitting on the other side of the floor. It will be weird.

Karl Lagerfeld

This is what I think is modern. It's like wearing a couture jacket with a pair of jeans.

John Carpenter

A life jacket will at least keep you floating.

William James

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Taya Kyle

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

Mike Smith

We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that.

Ryan Rourke

The Pancake Man went well. We served over 150 people.

Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Samuel Smiles

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Selman Waksman

From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

Sarah Snook

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

C. S. Lewis

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Richard DeKaser

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

John Gibbons

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Alan Rudolph

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

David Sedaris

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Buddy Ebsen

Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up.

Jandy Nelson

How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

James Woods

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

Janis Joplin

They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that's what I sounded like. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

Alan Watts

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

Al Pacino

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

Charlaine Harris

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

J. J. Johnson

We're seeing a very substantial shift going on in the market.

Timothy Ghriskey

We're seeing a pullback really just from yesterday.

Chris Shipley

We're seeing a lot more activity, a lot more energy, a lot more companies.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Aaron Tveit

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Chris Hadfield

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Michael Irvin

Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man.

Spanish Proverb

When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.

Jimmy Epperly

Basically, Woods shut us down in the middle.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Danielle Panabaker

I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.

Willie Randolph

We'll just see how it goes, ... He isn't shut down.

Carre Otis

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

Carlos Mencia

What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.

Carlos Mencia

The problem with the world is there's too many stupid people and nobody to eat them.

Carl Bernstein

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Agnes Varda

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

Charles E. Wilson

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

Charles de Lint

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Ricky Gervais

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

James Williams

Yeah, I suppose so. We'll have to look it up somewhere.

Sam Reed

We were supposed to get it the first of December.

Mike Radke

We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.

E. Hicks

She was able to make some shots. That's what she is supposed to do.

Mike Landry

She's a player. You watch her play and you say, 'That's how the game's supposed to be played.

Robert Wilson

I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.

Jennifer Shoaf

We've surprised a lot of people. We've even surprised us. We weren't supposed to be here.

Al Michaels

But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

Chris Harris

I feel like I'm supposed to be here.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

Diane Setterfield

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

David Suzuki

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

Jamie Sives

I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

Charles Baudelaire

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom