Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Hagman

I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

Charles Dance

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

Charles Hazlewood

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

Samuel Butler

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

Edie Brickell

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

Chris Hemsworth

My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback. And then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo.

Melissa Bean

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

Mack Brown

We discussed whether Roger or I should throw it in. The catcher voted for me.

We are not into hype, but not to categorize 2005 as our strongest performance year since our turnaround would be too much of an understatement.

Frank Robinson

We are not catching the ball; we are not throwing the ball. We don't seem to be focused on what is going on out there and what the situation is.

Kelli Giddish

I had never been to Texas. I'd been through Texas, but I'm so glad to be back in a place that's not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it's rich and saturated in American-ness.

Johnny Bench

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

Larry Dixon

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

When we're not catching crabs we definitely depend on crabs from down there. This is going to be really detrimental to the whole seafood industry.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.

Alberto Giacometti

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

Alberto Giacometti

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

Aldo Leopold

We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.

Aldous Huxley

Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.

Aldous Huxley

If you want to write, keep cats.

Aldous Huxley

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Aldous Huxley

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

Albert Einstein

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

Albert Einstein

One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

When the predator fish are gone, there is no fish for the sport fishermen to catch and when the sport fishermen don't have anything to catch, they go somewhere else.

We want to be the catalyst that revitalizes the whole community.

Adolf Hitler

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

Alex Rodriguez

This spring, to me, is a little different. I feel like I'm playing catch-up. Once I get my work in, I'll catch up to where I normally am.

Stephen Colbert

I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.

Rupert Murdoch

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.