Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Center

I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard.

Lauren Willig

I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.

Rachel Nichols

I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.

Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.

David Antin

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

Peter Singer

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

We were still spring chickens back then. That was back in the 1960s. We got together at my house and played low-stakes poker.

We never count our chickens until they are actually published. The sooner we can get these regulations in place, the sooner communities can start benefiting from them.

Hamish Bowles

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

Robert Kiyosaki

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

You know, you can never count your chickens before they're hatched with this game. We all know that. All it is, is two days of solid golf. I'm going to have to go out there and produce the same thing on the weekend.

Parker Young

Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables and salad.

I do think all things in moderation. I mean, the thing to me - it actually doesn't bother me very much if people want to read chick lit. But it makes me, you know, sort of disheartened when that's all that people want to read.

Emma McLaughlin

Between finishing emails, loading the fridge, unloading the dishwasher, getting our son to eat his chicken nuggets and my dog to swallow her pill, it takes approximately 32 days for my husband and I to complete a discussion and 46 to wrap up a fight.

Just the way they were jumping around, it was like they were going to the World Series. Don't count your chickens because all of them might not be hatched.

John Chick makes a play every day, somewhere. That's going to be one of our better personnel moves.

Shawn Amos

Her makeup, hair and general quirkiness overshadow the fact that Cyndi Lauper was one the most soulful chicks to come out of the '80s.

I actually, as a child, always wanted to own my own steak house. I started out that way and like I said, I'll always have a steak around. I usually will have chicken or a steak on the grill because I love grilling.

If we look at the importance of poultry as a percentage of GDP, it tends to be pretty small. But in terms of development and poverty, it's extremely important. Thousands and thousands of families depend on the chickens they raise in their backyards for food and income.

He will not replace the big green chicken because everyone loves him. The new mascot will be warm and cuddly with one gold tooth. He looks like a Pirate. One will work the one dugout and the other will work the other. Fans will love him.

Dwyane Wade

He'll sneak a chicken nugget from me once in a while.

He might have contracted the virus from chicken eggs he transported to a traditional market where he worked.

He met with everybody down (here) and he had his heart set on the Chicken Ranch.

What we intend to do between now and then is not to play chicken with the opposition. It's to govern and progress on our legislative agenda.

Mike Johanns

Our poultry industry is very consolidated, unlike that of other countries where chickens are raised in yards and inside homes. Our chickens, turkeys and eggs are raised in very controlled environments.

My wife is from a little town in Mexico, she grew up with chickens. The chickens are the first thing she fell in love with. They're cute, you know?

I thought we were excited in the beginning, running around like chickens with our necks cut off. I feel we settled down, I just wondered how far we were going to go before we settled down.

It is nonsensical. I think they are playing chicken with this thing.

Remember eating chicken meat and eggs cooked properly is safe and is good for you.

Recent declines in international demand for chicken coupled with greater than expected domestic supply will dramatically impact the projected performance of our chicken segment.

John Tory

I don't think it's as much a game of chicken as it is a game of bully-boy on the part of the government.

The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot.

My boy's in 4?H. He needed chicks to raise. He only needed a pair, but we got extra.