Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Isabella Bird

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

Evel Knievel

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.

Adora Svitak

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

Ivan Lendl

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.

Victor LaValle

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

When Americans get their vacation, they're going. If they're going to see Grandma and they're planning to see Grandma, $100 is not going to keep them home.

Nobody is there to protect the cop. I think the prosecutor should also do that. In the past, it was 'Wink, wink, nod, nod; here's what I want you to look at.' But that's why states have moved away from grand juries. You should also protect the people you're trying to indict.

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

Philippe Petit

Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable.

M y great grandma is a saintly sweet lady, but at the same time, she's grounded, strong and very spiritual.

Gia Coppola

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

My grandma made it when she was old,

My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.

Kim Clijsters

Maybe it wasn't my time yet in those Grand Slams. Everything happens for a reason.

Chris Wallace

Now when you say you have cooperated with the prosecutor, does that mean, in fact, that you spoke to investigators or to the grand jury?

Evan Lysacek

Obviously, this year there are some expectations on me to perform, but this is only my third Grand Prix of my life.

If 2005 was the year of the return of the grand authors, 2006 will be all the opposite.

Elena Dementieva

I feel much stronger now and I know what it takes to reach a grand slam final. I just feel I need to take one more step and I think I can do that this year.

Ernie Els

I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam.

Carey Mulligan

I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.

Al Gore

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

Charles Colson

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

Channing Tatum

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

Edwidge Danticat

My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

Edwidge Danticat

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

Conan O'Brien

President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option.

My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts.

Alane Ferguson

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

America Ferrera

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

Constance Baker Motley

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Clifton Fadiman

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

Douglas Booth

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.