Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isak Dinesen

The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a little while on all sides the Cicada would begin to sing. The grass was me , and the air, the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me. I breathed with the slight night-wind in the thorn trees.

Imelda Marcos

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Ike Turner

I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

Harry S Truman

As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.

Ja Rule

There's always something going on on movie sets. Even just from, you know, maybe you come in tired some days and you're not in your best mood. It's different when you're shooting movies because you're on a schedule and you gotta come with your A-game every day.

Gary Hamel

All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

Jenna Ushkowitz

If you're working out and taking care of your body, you don't really want the greasy food that makes you feel tired or blah. You actually crave the good stuff!

Glenn Reynolds

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

Giacomo Leopardi

Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door desire follows hope. Rest forever. Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention nor is the earth worth a sigh. Bitterness and boredom is life, nothing else ever, and the world is mud. Quiet now. Despair for the last time. Fate gives us dying as a gift. Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power which rules for the common evil and the infinite vanity of it all.

Dustin Byfuglien

I feel a lot quicker, and I've got a lot more energy. I don't get tired as fast.

He's old and he got tired and had to be put out to pasture,

Hunter S. Thompson

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

Huey Lewis

I'm a tired runner in the human race.

Howard Dean

I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America.

Harvey Milk

We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.

Jamaica Kincaid

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

Jackee Harry

Well, there's no other person like me. Ain't nobody else like me. It's flattering. I don't like to do it too much because I get tired of me. But people ask, so I get to do it every now and then.

Jackie Cooper

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

Jackie Chan

I am really, really tired.

James Frey

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.

Isaac Marion

A month ago there was nothing on Earth I missed, enjoyed, or longed for. I knew I could lose everything and not feel anything, and I rested easy in that knowledge. But I'm growing tired of easy things.

Ozzie Guillen

Hopefully, I do this long enough where I don't get tired or be boring. Well, I'm never going to be boring.

Paul Ryan

It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.

Patrick Leahy

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

Julia Quinn

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

Oscar Wilde

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

Paul Giamatti

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

Paul Giamatti

I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

Leos Carax

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

Laurence Fox

I once blurted out that I found it impossible to bond with my son Winston because I was too tired. I mean how bloody awful does that sound? What a tosser!