Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Dean Myers

I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

Walter Kirn

Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

Walter Kirn

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.

Waylon Jennings

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

Tre Cool

Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way.

Denis O'Hare

I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter?

Denis O'Hare

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

Derrick Jensen

My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn't really matter to me if they are Left or Right.

Dee Dee Ramone

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

Casey Affleck

The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' and 'Mad Max!' Two of those are westerns. So the western genre is emblazoned on my memory from childhood, and those are two great movies.

Stephane Hessel

I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country.

Dan Aykroyd

You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

Billy Joel

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Blake Lively

I feel like heels must be a workout! I know that they're really bad for you, but I run around in heels a lot and go up a lot of stairs, so maybe that's my terrible workout. I know that's not really a workout.

Blake Lively

When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the 'Lion King' soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.

Liza Minnelli

I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.

Kimora Lee Simmons

Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.

Kendall Jenner

Me and Kylie are sisters, but not everything we can always do together. She's not trying to be a model. She's trying to be more like a personality. We're trying to kind of separate ourselves - not in a bad way!

Kendall Jenner

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.

Melora Hardin

You know when you play Pictionary and someone draws a state? My biggest fear is that I'm not gonna know what state it is. I'm so bad at geography.

Sathya Baba

Today we find many children with bad character and bad behavior. The reason for this can be attributed to the bad thoughts of their mothers.

Clint Bowyer

Today, we did everything we could do, even though I put us in a bad spot, ... We'd had the fastest car in practice, and I was trying to prove it in qualifying. Maybe it just made me mad enough to do what I had to do.

Clint Bowyer

Today, we did everything we could do, even though I put us in a bad spot,

Flip Saunders

To have 36 assists on 43 baskets shows that we are playing team basketball. We aren't as good as we looked tonight, and we aren't as bad as we looked in Dallas.

To go back originally to the defections, it was as bad a time as a lot of us have ever gone through. There were some days when we didn't even know if there was going to be a league.

We did not play Winter Haven ball tonight. We had a bad game and we still ended up winning.

We didn't show up and they came out to perform like the No. 1 team in the district that they are. I guess that's a bad combination, coming out and not playing and having the best team in district come into town.

E. B. White

We didn't really think that 8.75 was too bad but we've come to understand it is not a very good rate, ... I kind of feel like I don't have a very good deal.

We didn't really have any bad weather at all, and you couldn't really tell what was going to happen.

Hubie Brown

We don't have the big bad wolf Lakers, ... but who's to say there will not be another terrific team in two years. If (Shaquille O'Neal) holds up, Miami could be that team.

We don't have that senior experienced guard who can say it's time to take some time off the clock. Too many times, we've gone down and quickly taken a bad shot.

Henrik Fisker

People feel very emotional about cars, and I don't want them to feel bad about driving a fast car.

Hayley Atwell

When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.