Famous Quotes & Sayings

Merv Griffin

Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.

Merle Haggard

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

Mason Cooley

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

Michael Moore

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Mencius

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

Michel Foucault

If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.

Martin Sorrell

[Formula One] is entertainment and it competes with other entertainments - and not with other racing formats. It competes with people's time on a weekend. So you have to deliver.

Martha Smith

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Martha Stewart

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

Martha Stewart

Of course I know how to roll a joint.

Mark Zandi

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

Ted Turner

CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.

Theodore Roethke

The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the fetor of weeds, Crawling on all fours, Alive, in a slippery grave.

Theodore Roethke

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.

Margaret Sanger

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.

Margaret Sanger

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

Margaret Sanger

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

Margaret Sanger

Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.

Margaret Sanger

Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Michael Lewis

There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir

Michael Faraday

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

Michael Faraday

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

Michael Bloomberg

You bet I did and I enjoyed it.

Melissa Etheridge

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

Neal Shusterman

The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.

Morgan Saylor

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

Morgan Freeman

Never give up the ganja.

Milarepa

I had been at the Ranch about a year when we opened a nightclub in Portland, Oregon called Zorba the Buddha, where I played in a band every week for one-and-a-half years.

Johnny Depp

I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.

James Joyce

The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

James Russell Lowell

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

James Russell Lowell

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

James Russell Lowell

The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.