Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin McCloud

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

Kelly Brook

I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life.

Margaret Chase Smith

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

Margaret Cho

People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.

Margaret Cho

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

Larry Page

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

Larry Wall

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

Larry Wall

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

Paul Simonon

A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry.

Paul Merson

When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long

Paul Claudel

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Patricia MacLachlan

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

Patricia Marx

Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting

Oscar Wilde

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

Oscar Wilde

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Oscar Wilde

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

Madonna Ciccone

I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it.

Lucretia Mott

Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.

Louis Jourdan

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

Louis Leakey

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

Louis L'Amour

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Louis L'Amour

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

Lorrie Moore

If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

Lorrie Moore

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

Lizzy Caplan

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

Liz Phair

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

Liz Phair

I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

Margaret Mahy

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

Michael Jackson

We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

Michael Crichton

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

Mia Hamm

Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

Melissa Manchester

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.