Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Johnson

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

Barbara Kingsolver

I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

Charles Bukowski

You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.

Eddie Trunk

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

Low volume tends to exacerbate any moves, and I think on Friday everyone on Wall Street is going to have skeleton crews on staff.

Share prices rose in knee-jerk reaction to the rally in US markets Friday and a weaker yen.

Noam Chomsky

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

We're leaving on Wednesday, so that gives us all day Thursday to go to practice and sit around. By the time Friday rolls around, (the trip) shouldn't have much of an effect.

We're not even going to watch the tape. Our non-league schedule is over. We're going to get ready for Souderton (an away game 7 p.m. Friday night, Sept. 23).

Those patients that should have gotten out by Wednesday morning didn't get out till Friday afternoon.

Hale Irwin

Today was the worst I've played in the tournament. I played pretty well on Friday and I played really well on Saturday.

Adam Cole

I'm so glad you brought that up Jay Lethal as a performer has grown into, I'll say this even though I'm wrestling him this Friday, he's one of my favorite wrestlers in the game right now. He's unreal. He's amazing in the ring. It doesn't matter who he's wresting. He's unreal on the microphone.

Abraham Lincoln

Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain Bailey, and Lieutenant Olin, and lately sitting in Minnesota, you cause to be executed on Friday the nineteenth day of December, instant, the following names, to wit...

Ann Coulter

The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media will only refer to partial birth abortion as 'what its opponents refer to as partial birth abortions.' What do its supporters call it? Casual Fridays? Bean-with-bacon potato chip dip? Uh . . . Steve?

Andy Cohen

I am a late discoverer of 'Friday Night Lights.' I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry - happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

Andrea Jung

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

We are a better team today than we were yesterday or even a month ago, and I think we will be a better team Friday than today.

Alex North

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

We were a little slow getting going. Normally you prepare for a Friday night game, so it was a little strange. I can't say enough about how great these kids are, every week they step up and make big plays when we need them.

Adrienne Bailon

I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.

We opened up Friday and we didn't stop all weekend.

On Friday nights, the town shuts down for football.

One of us is going to be a lot happier on Friday night.

Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled pretty well.

Alex Rodriguez

Friday was a demoralizing loss. To get two wins going into the off-day and a tough Tampa series, it's good for our psyche.

Friday (today) and the weekend will tell us what will happen,

Friday night's a mystery. We're going to go out and try and play well and go from there.

Friday night, home from work, have your first beer, then sit in front of the TV and don't leave it.

Friday is a huge game for us. We play each other three times in league. If we can get a win at their place, we have an edge.

Jim Calhoun

I don't want them thinking about Marquette and LSU next week. We've got to get by (Quinnipiac) on Friday night.

Cameron Monaghan

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

Calvin Coolidge

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.