Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ginger Baker

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

Rosalind Wiseman

How are you supposed to concentrate on your schoolwork when all you can think about is 'Everybody hates me'?

He's probably so tired they'll need to take him home on a stretcher. But I'll tell you what; I'd hate to think where we'd be without him.

I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness.

If John plays well, we win. I hate to put pressure on the kid like that, but when he runs the point and has 8 or 10 assists a game, we're a tough team to beat.

If Joey is not playing for the Wild, Houston will have one of the top leaders in the American Hockey League and a person who other teams hate to come up against.

Geoff Ogilvy

I had my hat in my hand. I was ready and he missed.

I'm young and healthy, and you've got charms; It would really be a sin not to have you in my arms; I'm young and healthy, and so are you; When the moon is in the sky, tell me what am I to do? If I could hate you, I'd keep away; But that ain't my nat

I'm not that disappointed (by losing to Bernard) because I've had that pressure of being ranked No. 1. I hated it. You've got that target on your back. Last year, I was ranked fourth, and that's better. No one notices you. You can just go out and wrestle.

In the Donn, he hated the track. We want it to be a nice day so he can show what he can do.

In some sense, we hate primaries, and that's why you had Ron Reagan's 11th Commandment. When we have an internal fight, it tends to be a little bloodier, and that's the nature of the beast.

David Attenborough

I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.

Bobby Valentine

Because it worked, it was very meaningful. Because I'm 55 and maybe, the way things are changing, I probably won't have an opportunity like that here. I like that. I hate to say it, but I like that.

I always want to win. I hate losing. Hate it.

Neil Gaiman

There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.

Neil Gaiman

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

Neil Gaiman

There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise.

John Waters

I do like Christmas. I do understand that there are people who hate it, and there are other religions that resent it. So, I speak to everybody - I try to speak to every kind of minority and majority that cannot escape the steamroller known as Christmas.

John Wayne

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

John Wayne

I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.

John Wesley

Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.

John Waters

Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.

John Tesh

I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it.

John Tillotson

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

John Rzeznik

There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me

John Ruskin

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

John Steinbeck

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

John Steinbeck

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

John Steinbeck

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

John Steinbeck

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

John Steinbeck

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

John Steinbeck

Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.