Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Sharpton

How do you make things fair?

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

We struck a fair balance. We feel we've been fair with all our customers.

Gunter Grass

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

We have seen an increase in prices and inflation. It is about time we give people a fair wage for a fair day's work.

We want him to keep starting. If he goes 80 pitches and five or six innings, it's fair to say he's now an option for us.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.

We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.

We grieve for Amadou Diallo and the four officers involved and pray they get a fair trial,

Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

We're just looking for something fair to give immigrant people an opportunity to work.

We're just interested in seeing a fair process.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

We're hoping, of course, it's going to be fairly minimal since a lot of that fruit had already been picked.

We're being very careful. It will be hard to tell the worth of this until it's in a fair number of airports.

Three women, three geese, and three frogs, make a fair

Larry Walker

We knew this was going to happen, ... We knew probably a week before the playoffs we'd get it done. We did it. Everything has been right on time. I just hope we get the same results as the other shots. I think I played fairly well after the shots, so hopefully that will continue.

When they were young teenagers, most of the participants had fairly healthy behaviors.

Kate Forsyth

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

J. K. Rowling

Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

Lee Westwood

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Majority rules -- and this is the vast majority. It's not fair to people who are standing in a line 10 tables back.

Sandra Cisneros

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

Benjamin Franklin

Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light.

Since day one, these people have been saying you've got the wrong guys. They want a fair hearing to show that.

Venus Williams

She played fairly consistently. I probably shouldn't have made so many mistakes. I'll remember not to next time.