Famous Quotes & Sayings

William T. Vollmann

Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.

Henry Ward Beecher

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Allen West

If people want to keep their kid on their insurance at 26, fine. We've got to make sure no American gets turned back for pre-existing conditions, that's fine.

There is a very loose requirement in terms of when it gets done and what the quality is. There is not a lot of urgency.

Walt never gets in a position where he's off balance. He takes pride in what he does and wants to win every play.

Kailash Satyarthi

I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

Lucy Liu

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

Nikki Sixx

Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, 'Nikki Sixx sucks.' And I'm supposed to take that personally.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

Cayden Boyd

I kinda like to scare my sister, and usually she gets really mad at me for doing that.

Pierre Beaumarchais

These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.

Doc Rivers

I thought that was the difference. We missed a quick shot then he made six in a row and that gets it to nine. You hate them making a run at the end of a quarter because you have to sub and it just gets worse from there.

Scott Thompson

I thought this is something I'd do when I was like 70, ... But this made sense. It gets rough being on the road so much.

Matt Hasselbeck

I think we have a group that gets it more than we have in the past.

I think we've just worn him out because we rode him so hard. It's limited his mobility. He gets worn out in the games, but we have to have him in the game.

Jack Lemmon

I think whatever you do, if you are going to do it well or even if you don't do it well, you have to have a passion for it, and I am passionate about it. I love it. I respect it and it gets me. I get off on acting,

I think as the weeks go by we play with more and more intensity. We don't have any superstars. It's just intensity and hard work. Every week it gets better and better and every week we get better and better.

I think a small part of him doesn't want to hurt anybody. But when he gets some guy wrenching on his neck, you can see something snap in him.

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

In the summer, you miss the match days, but my wife gets angry, as she doesn't see me on weekends. And football is work. I'm still working on the weekends.

Alan Taylor

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.

Bruce Bochy

This never gets old. I love watching the guys do this.

Gary Neville

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

Albert King

A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place.

Alan Smith

I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

Gayle Forman

I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

George Stephanopoulos

It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.

We've got to get him going. He's one of our key guys, so whatever it takes. If hitting in the middle gets him going, then we'll do something else at second. I hope he gets it going, because he can help us wherever he hits.

We've got to come out intense, with a super-lot of energy. That's our key to starting fast. As long as this team gets off to a good start offensively, we'll be OK.

Don Marquis

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

With every $100 that goes by, the risk/reward ratio gets less appealing.

We need to come back tomorrow and put two good runs together. This is bobsled, so anything can happen. I'm really psyched for Shauna and Val. As long as one of us gets a medal, I'll be happy.

Jeff Smith

When the ground gets so saturated, trees come over with less wind than they would normally.