Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trey Anastasio

When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing 'You Enjoy Myself' for the rest of my life.

Derek Hough

I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.

Derek Blasberg

I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways.

Denis O'Hare

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

Deval Patrick

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

Dennis Brown

Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!

Derrick Rose

It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.

Bob Seger

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

Blake Shelton

I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'

Ban Ki-moon

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

Linda Thompson

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu.

Kevin McCloud

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.

Grover Cleveland

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

The question is: How high are prices going to go and how high will they spike? That will help us understand the broader implications to the economy, to the region and to the nation.

The prospects for broad telecom reform including franchise relief are fairly low this year because there are too many unsettled major issues.

Jiang Zemin

the prospect for cooperation between us has become broader rather than narrower.

The project should support and broaden the current retail function, be conducive to reinstating the office and residential function of the area, and is expected to be a catalyst for increased private sector investment in the area.

Howard Carter

Those were the great days of excavating... anything to which a fancy was taken, from a scarab to an obelisk, was just appropriated, and if there was a difference with a brother excavator, one laid for him with a gun.

Times Square itself is being prepared?much like a Broadway theater.

John Conyers

to understand how you could have permitted an individual with such views to broadcast such a program on your network, and learn what you intend to do to respond to this problem.

Tough call. I think I broke my thumb.

Towson runs a very good-looking scheme where they have screens going to either side. You have to give Brown some credit because he made people miss. He's got some speed and he's one of the better receivers in the A-10.

This strategic investment complements our other broadband and media interests and further strengthens our already close relationship with the United Group.

Billy Graham

This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain.

This story kind of broke in the news because the publishers went to the press with a letter saying they didn't think DiMA was negotiating in good faith. We responded with a letter outlining what the facts of the negotiations have been.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

Mickey Rooney

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

Miranda Hart

I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk.

Naomie Harris

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

Nancy Jo Sales

I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

Nastia Liukin

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

Nandan Nilekani

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

Lowell Bergman

You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.