Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tika Sumpter

Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you’re constantly working on it. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

Tom Hooper

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Tom Hodgkinson

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.

Tommy Chong

More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.

Tom Hayden

The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.

Tom Hanks

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Tom Brokaw

...what I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...

Tina Fey

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

Takeo Spikes

You have to be more disciplined in what you do. You have to make the plays when you're supposed to make them. When the play is presented to you, you have to make it. We have to have guys flying around the ball. It will definitely be a good game to watch this weekend.

Rumi

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

Tony Goldwyn

If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

Steve Lacy

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

Steve Lacy

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

Stephen Crane

The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Tom Waits

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

Steve Buscemi

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.

Stephan Pastis

My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend...If it weren’t for her, I’d be happy.

Sigourney Weaver

Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on a scale that has not occurred for tens of millions of years. So we confront an urgent choice: to move beyond fossil fuels or to risk turning the ocean into a sea of weeds.

Scott Westerfeld

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

Robert Burns

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

Sylvia Browne

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Taye Diggs

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

Keith Hernandez

You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

Radhanath Swami

Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

Lesley-Anne Down

That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.

Cyril Connolly

A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

We've had a whole week of preparation here. We'll be ready.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.