Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terri DeJong

She did a real good job on Alison to take that threat away. They played man defense just like we expected they would, and we didn't do well with it.

Edmund White

I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

Alison Moyet

I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her belligerence. She's deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b'jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner.

Mary Quant

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

William Shenstone

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Ada Leverson

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Margaret Atwood

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

Kim Kardashian

Maybe I'll just be a good aunt.

Elliott Carter

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

Madeleine L'Engle

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Lucy Maud Montgomery

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

Jonathan Ames

From age 23 to 44 - I'm 45 now - I was always in need of money, and I was especially in need of it from 23 to about 34, and my great aunt would always give me money, a hundred bucks, every two months or so, and a lot of times that hundred bucks made a huge difference - I could eat or pay a small bill. It kept me going. She gave me money. It was very loving.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

Gary Bauer

I was deeply disappointed in Governor Bush's answer.

Chuck Gillingham

I thought she was extraordinarily courageous. At all times, she felt deeply about the victim in our case.

Lykke Li

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

Michelle Kwan

I am deeply disappointed that I will not be at nationals.

Karl Rove

Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world. And Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world. That doesn't make them unpatriotic, not at all. But it does make them wrong - deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong.

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Carla Ponte

I regret deeply what happened ... It is regrettable for all witnesses, for all survivors, for all victims that are expecting justice.

Peter Jennings

I'm deeply offended by how little Americans know about their country.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Lizette Hernandez

I didn't want him to ride, but oh, my God, he loved them.

Rachel Remen

I did this because the person I loved wanted it.

Jen Buckingham

It's been tuned, it's been played, it's been loved for many years, but it really needed some restoration.

Evelyn Fox

It's very sad, but he was?and his mom really wants everyone to know?a soldier, and he loved what he did.

Linda Sellers

They were opposites, but they were each other's favorites. They loved each other.

Rhoda Katz

They loved to travel the world. It's a wonderful thing, if you can do it.

Freddy Mella

They loved the idea and I have been registered with them since September.

Kim Howells

They will offer practical moral support to loved ones.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

Yogi Berra

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

Ruth Ginsburg

that seems to me worlds away from what we're talking about here.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.

Melanie Troxel

It seems like we can do no wrong. I'm as surprised as anybody. I don't want to wake up from this.

Larry Coker

It seems like three years to the players.

Will Ferrell

There's nothing sexy about Orange County.

Van Jones

The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.

Roselyn Sanchez

I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.

Zach Braff

I once looked in the mirror at myself and noticed that, without a doubt, I am a sexy man. In fact, I don't think I'll ever get married...it just wouldn't be fair for my spouse to catch me enjoying a look in the mirror more than having sex with her.

Rebecca Romijn

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

Rebecca Romijn

I’m a jeans size up from where I usually am, but there’s nothing about it that freaks me out. I feel as sexy as I have ever felt. I’ve always said that sexy is having a really strong sense of yourself and never taking yourself too seriously.

Rick Yancey

I start to unbutton his shirt. "Got to get these clothes off," I mutter. "You don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that." Smile. Lopsided. Sexy.

Samaire Armstrong

My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because thats my comfort level.

Ryan Guzman

Any Latin dance, whether it be salsa, cha cha, samba, etc., is very sexy for me to see a woman do. Using your hips is the key.

Richelle Mead

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

Robert Evans

It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.

Julie Burchill

The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.

Ingrid Newkirk

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

George Herbert

Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

Abraham Kuyper

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

William Ellery Channing

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Tyra Banks

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

Wilfred Owen

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

Jon Lovitz

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

Lord Acton

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

David Terrell

You can see the smile on my face, ... That tells a lot.

Og Mandino

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Michael Robinson

I try to have a smile on my face. But when I fumbled, I was out of it a little bit.

Seimone Augustus

It was her smile. It was the teacher she was, but also the person she was.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Wanda Jackson

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

Sarah Dessen

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

Winston Churchill

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

Winston Churchill

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Rick Springfield

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

Brian Greene

If you watch the games, it's really close,

Marshall Faulk

If you're from here, and you watch it on TV, and you can do something about it, you're going to.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

William Wordsworth

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

William Sharp

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

William J. Clinton

We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Robert Plant

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Samuel Johnson

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Samuel Johnson

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

Wallace Stevens

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Warren Beatty

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.