Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nicholls

I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything

Ahmed Chalabi

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

Ahmet Zappa

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic,

Aaron Carter

I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

Mack Brown

When Vince runs now, he's running to make a play. We don't need Vince to run to win the game.

Abraham Lincoln

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

Abraham Lincoln

Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

Abraham Lincoln

The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

Abraham Lincoln

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

William Shakespeare

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

I was running in circles. It was interesting but tiring.

Deborah Moggach

I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.

She was running to get the ball, stopped, and then just collapsed.

She's running very consistently. She's a smart racer.

She's always running her mouth. She's always got something to say.

Shoot, I've never been to the playoffs, and I'm running out of time.

I don't know about that one, but I know we're in the running for Taylor Road.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Those were some of our top varsity runners.

We're not saying the world is running out of oil,

We are running out of time. We have just 20 days.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Cate Blanchett

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Alan Cohen

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

Joan Rivers

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'

Mike Jones

When they are on their best, any running back can go in there and do their thing.

Dick Cheney

Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.

Walter Benjamin

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

Walter Benjamin

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

Walter Benjamin

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

Walter Benjamin

The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.