Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Collins

For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.

David Letterman

Everyday is a compromise.

(With) 500 at-bats, you're an everyday player, and I got that last year. So that proves I'm an everyday player ? but it's just not at the same position right now.

Corey Haim

You are what you wear. I wear something different everyday.

Confucius

Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.

We can talk about GDP, but what does that mean to most people? The everyday American has a better handle on where the Dow is today, where it was not long ago and where it was at its peak.

Albert Bandura

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

Albert Camus

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

Gretchen Rubin

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

Agatha Christie

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

Jamie Foxx

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

I would like a person to look rich, to look successful but not be overly ornate. I want to leave room for the everyday guy to upgrade.

I'm still here, still getting starts, still getting at-bats, so I feel like I'm one of the options. I'm not sure if they've made their mind up over who's going to be the everyday starter or where I fit in the mix, but I feel like I'm at least somewhere in that equation.

I'm strong. I'm a survivor, and I thank God now everyday for my life.

Bill Shuster

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

You always worry about something like that. You have to feel fortunate everyday that you can walk into a locker room and be a part of a good organization. I'm not saying it's keeping me up at night but it's always in the back of your head.

Carl Sagan

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

An everyday fight, come in here each day and fight to make ourselves better.

As far as violence goes, school is school. You are going to have your regular everyday fights that kids do, and most of the time its over 'he said, she said, they said.' But we really haven't seen a real increase in violence. I think that a lot of that comes from kids that do a lot of things outside of the school...schools are no more unsafe than they were 10 years ago.

I like pitching, I like being out there. The more I pitch, the more I feel like an everyday player.

Immigrants do make contributions. Everyday life in the U.S. has a piece of immigrants.

I'm an everyday player. I hate sitting on the bench.

Mark Melancon

I just want to pitch. I don't put all the work in just to sit on the bench. I want to be an everyday player.

Aaron Ruell

I never expected the movie to become as big as it has. I thought that we'd be lucky if a handful of people outside of our small group would get to see it. Everyone involved with the making of this film was shocked that all of a sudden, lines from the movie had become lines that people would say to each other in everyday life. None of us expected that.

I'm the average, everyday underdog and I want everyone to know we can do this, together, all of us. Never quit living your dream.

Claire always works hard. She works hard in practice everyday and has done a good job for us so far.

Greg Fitzsimmons

My friend goes, 'If you're going to use Rogaine, just put it somewhere you're going to remember to use it everyday.' So I put it right next to my Prozac. But now it just feels really pathetic using both of these products at the same time, 'cause if either one works, I don't really need the other one.

Eva Longoria

The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.

Henry Miller

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Helen Keller

While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.

Hillary Clinton

This killer [in Orlando] was interviewed by the FBI three times and I'm not going to second guess what career law enforcement professionals do everyday to defend our nation. But we need to look carefully at this. Should we have a broader database? You know, someone comes to the attention of FBI not once but three times, does that suggest that local law enforcement needs to know.

In every possible way you can never imagine how your life is changed, your holidays have changed, your everyday life has changed, how you respond to people, how you look at people.

I just try to tell him everyday the things he needs to do and the things he needs to expect. So when it happens it will be ready for him.