Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carriger

Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how are you feeling?" Alexia took a breath. "Truthfully? I sometimes wonder if I, like Madame Lefoux, should affect masculine dress." "Gracious me, why?" "You mean aside from the issue of greater mobility?" "My love, I don't think that's currently the result of your clothing." "Indeed, I mean after the baby." "I still don't see why should want to." "Oh no? I dare you to spend a week in a corset, long skirts and a bustle." "How do you know I haven't?

Maggie Shayne

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

Norman Mailer

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Orlando Bloom

My baby is amazing, even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him!

Nuno Bettencourt

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.

Norman Vincent Peale

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Ellen Key

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Ellen Goodman

We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and - not always, but often enough - reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

Ellen Galinsky

Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

Ellen DeGeneres

I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] I mean, I think this part is great but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, "Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored...

Eric Ries

Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.

Emeril Lagasse

I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

Elliott Yamin

My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.

Hayley Williams

If I ever did have a baby, it probably would eat people.

Helen Reddy

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

Helen Rowland

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

Hilary Duff

I got married and had a baby. Created a human.

Helena Bonham Carter

I'm convinced that whatever state you're in during your pregnancy has a huge influence on the baby's personality - so I hope we haven't produced a little serial killer!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Joan Jett

I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.

Joan Jett

Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.

Jimi Hendrix

So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

Jimi Hendrix

You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.

Jim James

Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to follow it. It's like there's a spirit, or intuitive network, that comes through all of us, but most people don't take the time to think about it or remember it. These little things pop into our heads - it's just a process of intuition. The initial thought comes in a baby state, and you work on that some more.

Jimi Hendrix

Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?

Jimi Hendrix

If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.

Jimi Hendrix

Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will

Jim Morrison

Take it easy baby, take it as it comes - specialize in having fun!

Jim Morrison

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

Erik Erikson

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Eric Thomas

If you can out last that discomfort! I guarantee you baby; on the other side of it is success.

Eric Liu

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

Emmanuelle Beart

I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.