Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock's!

Jane Kaczmarek

LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!

Mike McKee

Lynden is a disciplined team. Brian has done a good job there and the kids have bought into it.

Paul Cooper

Many people bought a PC just before Y2K. They were worried that their existing machines wouldn't work, and so they upgraded just to be safe,

Andy Miller

Sebastian's just too classy and too sophisticated to get bought by anyone.

Dom Capers

So, it's not Ed McMahon? Darn. And I bought magazines. Who's this Reggie Bush guy anyway?

Chris Rock

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.

Bill Halbrehder

One of the things we talked about was to get that talent she has to always be ready and play through those lulls. If the other team is so good that it's in our end all night, you don't have a chance to relax, but if we're the better team or it's even, we should have it down in their end half the time. She's been extremely alert. She's bought into it.

John Sculley

One thing about Apple is they have these fanboys - as I always say, 'Sell to the people who love us.' For example when they came up with iPad mini, everyone who had an iPad went out and bought a mini as well.

Edward Gibbon

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

Kevin Wright

When you run the option, the idea is to get going downhill right now and Dexter does an unbelievable job at that. He's a player who has the potential to score on every play.

Rick Rodriguez

If we lose that game, it's Seminole going to the playoffs and not us. Dexter willed us to a victory in that game because he knew we had to win it. That's what I'll always remember.

George Burley

I'm hoping Paul stays fit, otherwise we may have to use Dexter again.

Rick Rodriguez

I took Dexter out in the fourth quarter. Better to be safe than sorry.

Patrick McMahon

It would not be hard to come up with the projects to equal the $500,000. An estimate for the Dexter Plaza from a few years back was $150,000. In addition, the train station could easily reach $200,000, just in soft funds alone.

Gavin Miller

Holy cow; that's a big deal. That's the first time ever for Dexter to be ranked No. 1 in the poll. That is just a really big honor, because even last year we were never No. 1.

Rick Rodriguez

get in front of someone and Dexter will do the rest.

Jeff Lindsay

I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.

Dan Buenning

Maybe we're just too dumb to know we shouldn't be doing this. And we really don't care.

Turkish Proverb

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb

John Kosmina

When you concede dumb goals, you've usually got to pay a price.

Jerry Coleman

I don't feel quite as dumb as they make me look,

Clint Eastwood

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Walter Benjamin

If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk

Charles Dickens

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Ed Schultz

If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

Charlaine Harris

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Roger Sherman

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Stephen Gould

Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK?

Randy Jackson

Man, every time Kelly opened her mouth she gave me chills!

Jim Ramstad

Let us always remember that wonderful trademark George Mikan smile that lit up a room, inspired us, and gave us hope,

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set us back.

Lynn Dooley

Liam was lucky. They gave him a gift.

Ron Gardenhire

Lew gave it everything he had. It's not like he could've done anything different. We didn't get it. That's just the way it's going.

Guo Shurong

Many veteran craftsmen gave up their jobs of making New Year pictures in previous hard years.

Stan Heath

Sean (McCurdy) gave us some valuable, valuable minutes, too.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

Hamid Karzai

Lots of people had much misinformation. The second report, the official report, will be much more accurate,

Rose Fong

Lots of people come in and tell us this is where they had their first date.

Patricia Green

Lots of people are moving out, ... I'm not the type to move out. I won't move out. Where would I go? Where will I go with these two old men?

Michelle Tea

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

Charlie McCreevy

Lots of member states seem to be wanting to put up unjustified barriers." ()

Judah Friedlander

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

Dan Gelber

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

William Stafford

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.

Kevin Wilson

Money's not everything - the volunteering professionals to get this thing done is worth more than anything ... that's worth a million dollars,

James Williams

No one thought - not a single person - that it would be this severe, this tragic. No one thought the levees would break. Not in a million years.

Erin Dawson

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be where I am.

Andrew Bogut

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

John Schwartz

Legally, this is referred to as an increase. There's no two ways about it on the ballot. However, if you look at the preamble, it says this proposal would reauthorize the levy. That tells taxpayers this is something they have paid before.

Maurice Williams

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Dave Ramsey

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Walter Dean Myers

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

Lela Rochon

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Alexandra Paul

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Diane Lane

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Eddie Vedder

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

David Bowie

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

Erin Gray

When they told me the shoe was in the stores, I was very excited.

William Shakespeare

You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

Charlie Chaplin

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.