Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

Bruce Bowen

Severna Park is the favorite this year and next year. They're four top players are all juniors.

She was always willing to meet and strategize and support those who were working in favor of CAFTA.

She's going in as gold medal favorite and as I see it, she's going to come away with it in front of a home crowd.

Ed Helms

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Baltasar Gracian

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Baltasar Gracian

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Brian Posehn

Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

We like being the underdogs. Whether we're the favorites or they're the favorites, we still have to go out and play like we're the underdogs.

David Dreman

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

When this (the presidential) race gets under way, favors will be cashed in and collected, ... They'll hope the favors they did are returned.

Abraham Lincoln

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Robert Reich

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

We're not doing any favors by having too many elk out there.

Mandy... that's my favorite song of all time. Man, oh, man.

Right now, I wouldn't be in favor of it. I just think it's inappropriate. There's not a lot of money to go around.

Right now, I would favor at least - hopefully - a quarter- to a half-inch. But that's pretty much up in the air.

Mark Shapiro

Right now, he'd be the favorite for that job. He's done that job before. Defensively, he can play all three positions. His professionalism and intensity fit the makeup and personality of our team.

On paper we were probably the favorites to take all six medals but actually going out and doing it is a different thing.

Dito Montiel

One of my favorite movies that I've ever seen is '25th Hour.' I love it so much because it's simply about a guy who's going to jail for six years, and this slow, terrible day he has.

Barbara Mertz

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

I am in favor of people talking. Those who talk with each other don't fight wars.

I am totally in favor of raising the out-of-town toll.

Elie Wiesel

I am so in favor of being involved in other people's causes, other people's fights. If a people is oppressed, we must help those people free themselves.

Joe King

My favorite school is UNC. But I would be happy to play for any school that could at least offer me a partial scholarship.

Ty Segall

My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for the Money' and The Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' - these records that have a story - even if it's not a literal story - because of how they're sequenced and flow. It's like a novel with sound.

my favorite place ... where I spend at least a day or two a week.

My favorite part was meeting the author. She is one of my favorite authors, and I liked the book, so to meet the person who wrote it was great.

Joe Turner

My favorite part of this is watching the kids on their way to the store.

Jane Green

My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books.