Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Engvall

I was traveling down the road with a buddy and there's a guy driving around in a jeep with a dead deer strapped to the hood. My buddy says to me you think he's been hunting? Nope, They're probably giving them away with the purchase of every jeep. Here's your sign!

Bill Cosby

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

Bill Cosby

I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.

Bill Cosby

And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.

Bill Cosby

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

Bill Cosby

Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution.

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

Bill Cosby

I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos,

Bill Cosby

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

Bibhu Mohapatra

I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.

Big Pun

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

Bharati Mukherjee

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

Bianca Jagger

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

Bianca Jagger

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

Bianca Jagger

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

Big Sean

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

Big Sean

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

Big Sean

Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life.

Big Sean

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

Big Sean

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

Big Sean

I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch.

Big Sean

Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.

Bert McCracken

When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.

Bert McCracken

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

Bernie Williams

When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.

C. S. Lewis

I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.

C. S. Lewis

The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.

C. S. Lewis

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

C. S. Lewis

There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'

C. S. Lewis

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

C. S. Lewis

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.