Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikita Khrushchev

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

Nicolas Cage

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

Margaret Thatcher

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

Margaret Chase Smith

The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as 'Communists' or 'Fascists' by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.

Mark Twain

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Mark Twain

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

Mark Millar

Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

Nikki Giovanni

If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

Niecy Nash

I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it.

Nick Saban

I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time.

Mary-Louise Parker

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

Mary McCarthy

Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification.

Knute Rockne

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

Mike Shinoda

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

Nathan Fillion

I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots of takes, and everyone there is a talent machine. It is a taxing endeavour to say the least, but when you get into a groove, it doesn't matter if you're tired, it doesn't matter if you're sick. You can do it.

Natalia Makarova

What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

Kate Chopin

I'm tired," she uttered complainingly. "I know you are." "You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half on them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud.

Julian Assange

Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.

Ken Kesey

Then—as he was talking—a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do...

It's not even his stats. It's more so his leadership. When he walked in the huddle, he was in command. He really had you confident. Never when we were down or tired did we think we were going to lose.

David Carr

It's frustrating because you get tired of losing, ... You can't let it get to you, though.

Miguel Tejada

If the Orioles don't do anything, I want them to trade me because I am tired of losing.

Felipe Alou

I know it's coming. I know he's tired. He was more tired tonight.

Americans just don't get tired of that flavor.

James J. Corbett

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.

Kyle Petty

When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction.

Libba Bray

Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead; just very tired.

Lester Bowie

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

John Zorn

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

James Balog

I've been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I'm just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is.

Henry Rollins

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Henry Adams

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.