Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vendela Kirsebom

In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

Tyra Banks

I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye... My body made me feel bad at everything.

Ty Pennington

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

Ty Pennington

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

Tyga

Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

Vladimir Putin

One can feel calm and at ease. Just leave kids alone, please.

Warren Zevon

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

Walter Martin

I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself...

William Levy

I try to give my kids everything I never had.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.

Walter Johnson

I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're famous already kid. See, they've named a hotel for you.' I looked across the street and sure enough, there was a big illuminated sign that read 'Johnson Hotel.' Well, do you know that I was so green that I actually believed the man!

Walter F. Mondale

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

Walter Dean Myers

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

Yo-Yo Ma

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

Yogi Berra

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

Willie Mays

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act

Willie Aames

It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.

Willie Aames

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Willie Aames

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

William S. Burroughs

Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit --- Kid, it was tasty.

Wong Kar-wai

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

Woody Hayes

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

Woody Harrelson

I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.

Woody Allen

Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.

William Shatner

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

William Shatner

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

William J. Clinton

We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.

William J. Clinton

Everybody has a gas-guzzling car because people like SUVs. They would like SUVs if they were hybrid vehicles that had the same horsepower and used less gasoline. Instead, what the auto manufacturers are doing is building SUVs that are hybrid vehicles that use the same amount of gasoline because they up the horsepower. That's a decision that they make to market irresponsible economic behavior. The American people like the SUVs, they have kids, they, they need them, they get around in them, but we have options.

William Gibson

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

Will Forte

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.