Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Flintoff

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

Agnes Mille

...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open

Kristin Kreuk

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

Chris Lee

Over time and with rain, the rock will get in the cracks and make a nice pathway.

J. Paul Getty

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

John Bolton

I think the uranium enrichment program is the 800-pound gorilla in the negotiating room. You can't solve a problem if you deny that it exists or if you wish it away.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Abraham Lincoln

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

Ani Difranco

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

Dodie Smith

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.

Dodie Smith

He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.

Dinah Shore

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Jane Campion

I fell in love again (laughs).

Catherine O'Hara

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

Carrot Top

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Dean Koontz

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Craig Ferguson

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

Elizabeth Scott

Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

Adam McKay

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

Lao Tzu

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Tim Finchem

This is a win-win-win partnership that we have in this room today. The players are going to love being here and love playing on this course.

Paul Schell

This is not the Seattle we know and love.

K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Robin Dunne

That town, when you're hot, people love you.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Lynn Flewelling

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Len G. Murray

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Gordon B. Hinckley

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Jurgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Paula Abdul

And I have been taught never, never to lie,

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Catherine McAuley

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

Daniel Handler

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Robert Kiyosaki

Success is a poor teacher

Clive James

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

Donald Trump

I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.