Famous Quotes & Sayings

I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.

Brian Kernighan

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

Brea Grant

I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.

Charlie Watts

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

Irwin Redlener

From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love.

There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans.

I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

We sent a helicopter when he fell and they found his heart had stopped. Sadly, they were unable to revive him.

Artie Lange

Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.

Beth Broderick

This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.

When we had the 'flash crash' in 2010, where the price of some stocks briefly fell to zero, high-frequency trading played a big role in that event.

Kin Hubbard

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

We had an opportunity to tie it at the end. We had a good look, but the shot fell just short at the buzzer.

Alicia Keys

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Wendell Willkie

In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

Keith Davis

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

Herbert V. Prochnow

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Yolanda Adams

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

We don't know what happened, ... It fell through the cracks.

Roy Bean

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.

Tom Brokaw

The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.

Alexander Payne

In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

Alan Alda

When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.

I was going to play him until he fell down. He's very efficient, very good with the ball, very good one-on-one.

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, there's an old saying that ""nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor,"" so I thought it was time to speak with you directly, to tell you first hand about our dealings with Iran.

One reason we have (etiquette) rules is because some people don't follow them. It's not a huge problem, but it has to be addressed every once in a while out of respect for fellow members and the club.

One thing we all work together on and that is helping our fellow man when needed,

John Cassavetes

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

Kaley Cuoco

When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.