Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erin Gruwell

I was going to show my kids that no matter what happened with their parents, parole officers and other teachers, I wouldn't give up on them. I let them know it matters to me that you come to class, it matters to me that you try, it matters to me when you succeed.

Douglas Coupland

I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.

Ed Slott

Every time something like this has happened in the past, people were grandfathered into the program.

Every time it seemed like we were making progress, something happened ... Bernard's injury, Bo Taylor's dismissal. For a while, we struggled.

Christo

But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

But nothing's happened yet -- nothing that I know of.

Mary J. Blige

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

Alison Jackson

I go up to people and ask if I can use them in my photos. Occasionally it is the person in question, as happened with James Hewitt. How embarrassing. He just laughed and said, 'You can't afford me.'

Angie Martinez

Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.

There is no reason why it shouldn't have happened back when they were purchased. They weren't purchased to sit in a closet.

Jay Moore

The pass rush was our No. 1 priority. Improve the pass rush. It's really all I thought about some days. You saw what happened last year when we didn't have a pass rush.

We lost, we'll look at what happened and move forward.

Brian Posehn

I used to own a stuffed piranha, but I haven't seen it in years. I don't even know what happened to it. Maybe my wife didn't want it to make the move from the last house to this one.

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.

David Wright

We had a respectful disagreement. It has happened before and it will happen after me.

We've had such a strong run that a pullback was inevitable, and what we see today is just the reflection of what happened in the metals market.

We all know what happened to oil prices this quarter. Why wouldn't they make a lot of money?

There is no special reason. Nothing that happened couldn't turn around next week.

We can't remain stagnant. Look what happened to television, the Internet. Everything changes.

We wouldn't normally do that. That's something that happened that the co-worker just didn't use their better judgement. I'm surprised that would happen.

Phil Jackson

There have been some things that have happened over the years that have been really special in my life, and this is one of them.

John Trudell

There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights.

There hasn't been any joy in winning for me, personally. What's happened down there has made it really hard. It's sad, all the way around.

Thomas Cahill

We think we know what history is. We think we know what happened and we don't.

We're not looking for a white knight . . . If somebody else comes along, we'll listen to what they'll say, but it hasn't happened yet,

We didn't get away with it opening night. And you saw what happened in Toronto. Four-goal leads are not safe anymore. Every night you have to play 60 minutes. Maybe more.

Isabel Allende

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.

Gail Sheehy

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

We were not surprised with what happened tonight because we were very well prepared.

Tubby Smith

We've not shown the mental toughness we need yet. We need to stay intense, stay focused. How do you respond to what happened if you did not start? Do you respond the right way and do the right things to improve?

Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

Idris Elba

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Ian Mckellen

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.