Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Elizabeth McCracken

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.

I don't know exactly when he got the memory flash, but he was in D.C. when it was the horrible defining moment, 'Oh my goodness, I think I've left my child back in my car.

Joan Chen

I did somehow manage to get into a college in China that trains diplomats when I was 17, one year before my peers could go, which is very very difficult. I was very proud I did.

Russell Crowe

I didn't want to be a dad under those circumstances. I never wanted to have to have children who would hear the kind of conversations I had to hear my parents having, wondering where the money was going to come from for the next rent.

I didn't want my children to work in the rice fields, I wanted them to go to school and get good jobs, ... Lula helped.

Nick Hornby

I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.

McLean Stevenson

I'd just like to take a moment here to say that I'm totally opposed to violence in the school system. I think that teachers are subjected to a lot of stuff that kids are... Children out there, if you feel so compelled to maim your teacher, I think that's okay, but to really get rough and snuff 'em out, that's tough.

Stephen Hadley

I dispute the premise, ... I think most people you talk to would say our relations with Japan, Korea and China have rarely been better.

I don't expect (their numbers) to go to zero, because of support from the local community, and the numbers of children living in remote locations.

Ronda Rousey

I don't feel the need to be the hot chick every second of the day. I like to be able to surprise people when I turn it on. I want it to be like the movie 'She's All That' when they unveil her.

I'd love to see a park for small children in each neighborhood. I don't think that's going to happen in the next four years.

I'd like to see a safer Conroe for all to live in and raise children in.

Stephanie Bennett

I'd like to think that I'm paving the road for all of the women out there who have not had children yet. I'm setting the tone for how it's going to be when you're at this place in your life.

I don't know what happened to (the diamonds). His wife and children are living in very poor conditions.

I don't know much about China. I look forward to seeing China and to the concert as well. To me, it's a 'special honor' as very few performers from my era have ever performed in China.

Peter Thorne

I don't know many companies that have made a lot of money in Chinese banking, but clearly the potential is there.

I do not think the media was irresponsible, because they had sources as high as the New Orleans police chief and the mayor. In fact, it would have been irresponsible not to report it.

I do not think that the Chinese Communist Party is going to implode and collapse like it did in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This Communist Party is going to fight to stay in power, and it will use the military to stay there.

James Inhofe

I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

I can look at our management group and see they are mostly young enough to be our children.

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

Chinese people like to do things with a low profile; they do not like to expose their wealth.

I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.

Derek Blasberg

Even on vacation, Rihanna's easy breezy chic is not complete without a red lip.

Denis O'Hare

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.

Dian Fossey

It is true that there comes a time when I do literally dream about McDonald's. I dream of supermarkets and drug stores, potato chips and the Sunday morning paper.

Delmore Schwartz

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

Cathleen Schine

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

C. Everett Koop

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

Cornelia Funke

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.