Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Chaucer

Everybody wants to go to the Super Bowl. Nobody wants to run laps.

Khloe Kardashian

Growing up, I was always chubby. My girlfriends were always running around in two-pieces, and I never felt comfortable to do that.

Jane Asher

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.

Jandy Nelson

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.

Jane Austen

Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.

Jane Austen

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Jane Austen

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

Jamie Zawinski

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

Jamie Zawinski

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Jamie Lee Curtis

My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.

Jamie Redknapp

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

James Woods

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

James Young

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

James Wolfe

What, do they run already? Then I die happy.

James Wolcott

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

Jason Aldean

The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'

Jared Bernstein

The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.

Janis Karpinski

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

Janine Benyus

After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.

Janet Yellen

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

Janet Napolitano

I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

Janet Napolitano

I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president.

Janet Jackson

I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was very eclectic. So, I had a lot under my belt by the time I grew up. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in, the space that I'm in and what I'm feeling at that moment. But definitely!

Jane Russell

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

Jane Siberry

I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

Jane Smiley

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

Jane Smiley

There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

We used to take six skaters and that was it. We didn't run the two- and three-line deal.

You cannot be a part-time candidate when you're running against Orrin Hatch.

Richard G. Scott

Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run, always lead to the best outcomes.

Ricky Gervais

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

Ricky Gervais

I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.