Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alene Gentry's

Someone gave it to Aunt Mabel, who died in 1918, and then Grandma got it. She was about 13 years old.

Jeremy P. Johnson

I was pretty familiar with Grenada having come up here twice a year to visit my aunt Stella Conley, ... I'm just looking forward to the opportunity to play ball this season.

E. B. White

It fills a little niche; nobody's ever written about this before in this way because it's a book about a serious subject but told with such a respectful, light touch. It's one of those books you sit down and read start to finish because you can't put it down. And after you finish, you say 'My aunt would like this, and so would my great-grandmother and my sister.' And so people will buy one, and then come back and buy 10.

Judith Jamison

I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, somebody down the block from you. An aunt or an uncle. Some relative. A parent.

Gladys Knight

I was just being obedient to what my parents saw in me. I was more interested in the things the women in my family, my mom, grandmother and aunt were all about: homemaking and cooking and housekeeping. I wanted to be a housewife and mom.

Mark Ruffalo

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

Jamie Wyeth

From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.

Brandi Knight

I have a younger brother that is in between him and I. He has two nieces that he's never met, he has aunts and uncles and lots of cousins. He would have a very loving, strong support system. We love him and never stopped loving him.

Martin Landau

His mother died when he was a little kid, his father didn't understand him, and he was raised by an aunt and uncle and a grandfather on a farm. He had a lot of darkness, without question.

Steve Sexton

Pat Day is not only a great jockey and outstanding athlete, he is one of our community's most respected and beloved citizens and a wonderful role model. Few people wear the label of 'legend' as comfortably as Pat and Churchill Downs is delighted to offer this opportunity for our community to say 'thank you' for all that he has given us through the years. We look forward to joining Pat's family, fans and friends from throughout our community and the country in this celebration of his incredible career on 'Pat's Day' at Churchill Downs.

Pat Thomas

Our beloved (and our kid's only cat growing up) had to be put down after 19 1/2 years.

C. S. Lewis

And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

Michael Bell

I welcome any opportunity to serve our beloved convention,

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice, my soul is a sacrifice, to that True Court of the Beloved Guru.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but something I had nothing to do with the creation of, so I was very removed. 'Perks' is different because it was my book.

Don Fehr

Kirby played the game with such passion and enthusiasm that he was beloved by players and fans throughout all of baseball.

Guru Singh

Burn away those rituals which lead you to forget the Beloved Lord.

Simone Elkeles

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Van Velde

Regardless of the reason, we have the right to expect better from such a prominent member of the Iowa State community.

Tomokatsu Mori

Recent gains suggest to me that shares are rising too fast and it's natural to expect selling.

Peter Volk

Our rescue workers are expecting not just seriously injured people, but also people suffering from hypothermia.

Andy Fisher

Our outlook as we go forward into '06 is that we expect there to be a good IPO market.

Gary Thomas

Patients expect pharmacists ought to know about this thing. My God, it's your business!

Paul Jury

Part of the reason why Willingham didn't have a long tenure is because he followed a mediocre coach, ... You can't follow years of mediocrity and expect to get top high school recruits. The UW will have the same problem.

Tim Connelly

Part of the reason why Stephanie was so successful last year was that she knew she had to step up. Molly wasn't going to be able to get it done and Stephanie looked at the situation and said 'I'm going to get it done.' She's been a great leader ever since she's been here. Last year, she finally had all the pieces together where she could do it on the track, too. What I expect of her isn't any more than she expects of herself. She expects to improve.

Dan Jones

Pay-TV needs top-level football as much as football needs Pay-TV's revenues, and therefore we expect broadcasting revenues for the 'best properties' to hold their values.

Nora Martinez

Patty Kelly fought very hard to keep it in the family and to keep it open. She wanted to keep it part of Hoboken.

Shintaro Ishihara

Part of her must feel carefree, relieved, now that she has left the imperial family and become a commoner. I want to set up an opportunity so that she can get a taste of this.

Harris Pastides

Our medical school puts the highest percentage of graduates into pediatrics and family practice in the country.

Marion Jones

Our lives are so hectic and full, and we have a big family right now.

Mike Strauss

People need to sign up to be organ donors, but then they need to talk to their family about it so there is no question what to do with your organs.

Liz Harrison

People have passed on wonderful family trips, family reunions, missed funerals, missed weddings.

Wendy Rosenbach

People have larger tracts of land and they'll hunt it themselves or have family and friends hunt it.

Kendall Simmons

People in his family have diabetes, so he knew what I was going through, and he talked to me about it. On other teams, when they find out you have it, it's like you have a handicap and you become a liability. They don't even give you a chance.

Tommy Hutton

People may see this and judge without really knowing the stuff he's gone through the last few years. My wife and I went to see him and his family after his son died. He was very quiet. At a time like that, all you can do as a friend is just be there.

Jason Chaffetz

People have seen me fighting everything from 'Fast and Furious' to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others.

Bernard Beckett

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Donna Davis

I wish I was in (the host city) Detroit. But it was a little too much.

Dan Pfeiffer

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

Selenis Leyva

I still have a desire to do some sketch comedy. My dream is to be on 'SNL,' to host 'SNL.'

George Ward

I think, for the most part, people understand that we can't undercut the private sector, ... If anything, our price structure was a little low when Secretary Host got here.

Tom Buford

I think Jim Host can be the governor's lifeline.

Brian Wansink

If a person wants to limit how much they consume, it's better if you pour into a tall, skinny glass. If as a host you want to limit what people drink, you better use tall, skinny glasses. You will be less likely to pour too much.

Bill Vickroy

If we win, we would host it Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., after gymnastics.

Richard Ferlauto

That was the first flexing of shareholder muscle and that shareholders were emphasizing the importance of splitting those roles.

Oliver Ivanovic

It is of utmost importance for Kosovo institutions to preserve peace in the province.

Randy Johnson

I think you see not a sense of urgency, but a little more importance on every game. I suspect it will be that way the rest of the year.

Mike Degory

If we're going to take back the Swamp, it's going to start Saturday. We know that and understand the importance of this game. We're not overlooking it.

H. Hunt

If we can take anything away from this, it's that we recognize the importance of flood-control projects that we don't necessarily think about every day.

Jim Litchfield

He was a man tonight. He knew the importance of this game, and to his credit, he stepped up.

Catherine McAuley

A good beginning is of great importance.

Arthur Machen

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Henry Hyde

We are not delegates who are sent here to weigh our mail every day and then to vote accordingly. There are issue of transcendent importance that you have to be willing to lose your office over ... I'm willing to lose my seat any day in the week rather than sell out.

Jesse Owens

Just ironge the people who tend mock at you

Richard Reeves

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.

Ann Fisher

When you test a newborn, you're only testing for the mother's antibodies. This makes a mockery of the whole notion of voluntary testing for pregnant women.

Bob Marley

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard

Kian Egan

I know people mock us, but we do what we do. It is all about pop music and entertaining our fans. We don't pretend to be anything we are not, and while some may not like our music, there are plenty out there who do.

Joe Horn

The Saints aren't going to be the first team that they made a mockery of.

Harper Lee

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

Harper Lee

Things are never as bad as they seem.

Tom Daschle

This isn't reform, ... This makes a mockery of McCain-Feingold.

Carson Daly

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

Al Yankovic

In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

Bill Griffith

MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never give away the character.

Alexandra Patsavas

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

Shirley Manson

No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

Ty Segall

Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.

Georgia May Jagger

I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.

David Bowie

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

Dan Fogelberg

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Jessica Simpson

... I can't say I won't ever want an Oscar role, but I don't really take myself serious right now.

John Bloom

I don't think it's transformed animation. The Oscar is the tail and the work is the body.

Greg Vanney

If we can win something at the end of the year that is something Oscar can take with him forever. That is ultimately the most important thing.

Brett Ratner

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Brett Ratner

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

Dick Van Dyke

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

Conan O'Brien

The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.

Oscar Campos

(We will do) whatever we have to do. One thing is what Oscar (Arias) thinks today and another thing is what he's going to have to think tomorrow.

Jim Thome

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

Chester Pitts

Our first year, we had 76 sacks, ... That's not very good. Playing like this, we'll be right back where we started.

Garry Houston

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Trent Yawney

Playing with poise under pressure is something you can't teach.

Jeremy Roenick

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

David Carr

Playing the Titans is always tough, whether you're favored or you're not favored,

Tyler Murovich

Playing there would give me a lot of opportunities.

Gary Waters

Playing Princeton is like pulling teeth. It's been that way for a long time.

Lindy Ruff

Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.

C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

Carrie Underwood

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

Christy Austin

I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.

James Bailey

If it's still in the trial stage no.

Arthur Ashe

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

will.i.am

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'

Peter Chan

We are not making a concert, this is not a stage musical,

A. Hodge

This stage has got a stinger in the tail.

Bill Burr

The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.

Maggie Brooks

I think there would be some reimbursement, unclear what that reimbursement would be,

Two Chainz

You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.

Charles Darwin

The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

Ben Feldman

You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?

Dominic Chianese

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

Dominic Chianese

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

Dominic Chianese

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

Dominic Chianese

I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

Abraham Lincoln

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.

Bethany Mota

Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing.

Ashley Tisdale

I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

Patrick Campanelli

I think the videotape impeaches her on that issue.

Jill Sobule

I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.

Miikka Kiprusoff

I don't know what happened. I'll look at the video and then I'll know better.

Shakira

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

C.C. Sabathia

Just one. But I've watched the video of it about 200 times.

Lilly Singh

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

Abbas Kiarostami

Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.