Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael A. Stackpole

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

Sophie Beckmann

The tax code is just as complex as last year, if not a bit more so.

Geno Auriemma

I've always had enough people around me that I've come to know a little bit about it. We're trying to do as many things as we can to help the process.

Jamie Kennedy

(I've been) a bit nervous, because you think it's like a job interview - if you want to put it that way - but when you start to think about it, you just get a little bit nervy and don't know what to say,

Peter Clarke

I've been a bit crook lately and had to go to hospital for a couple of weeks, so I gave the horses to Johnny to look after while I was away.

Ally Walker

I've always been a bit of an outsider... I just pop up, kind of. I have a life. I have children - I have three children - and I love the craft of acting; I'm dedicated to that... that's always meant more to me than just hanging out... I've always been kind of a weirdo in that respect, but if the role is good, I'm going to do it.

Jennifer Morrison

I use the Koh Gen Do face cleanser and the foaming face wash. The cleanser takes the makeup off and then the foaming face wash is like a deep cleaner. I use this lotion called Fenix, it has a little bit of SPF in it.

Ronnie Brown

I've already been through a situation like this. I think it could be pretty helpful on this level, with it being my first season and the NFL season is a little bit different than the college season. I think it's helpful from the standpoint of being healthy toward the end of the season.

Chris Smith

I usually work at a yard where there's nobody watching, so it's a little bit different now.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

C. S. Lewis

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Alan Keyes

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Anthony Trollope

We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.

Demi Lovato

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

Michelle Snow

I've been doing this for 20 years. I've seen hundreds of kids. Monica is dedicated to music. She's got perseverance. She's one of the few that will actually make it.

John Cena

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

Yuvraj Singh

No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.

Kurt Cunningham

We depend greatly on the help we get from volunteers. We have up to 20 volunteers helping out every year. Last year, they put in 4,000 hours. They are a very dedicated and well-trained bunch.

Henry Williamson

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

Adam Goldstein

We've been dedicated for a long time to telling people that cruising is different from what they think it is.

Lupe Fiasco

I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.

Edward Levi

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Flea

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

Matt Hasselbeck

The thing's hanging on top of the Space Needle.

Allan Ray

That's why I was hanging my head. When it first happened I was like, 'You can't be serious, not another knee injury.' That's why I was so scared. We've had a lot of knee injuries on this team and I didn't want to be another one.

Emily Gill

Were hanging in there. Weve got to keep on doing what were doing and Denise (McCloskey) is doing a phenomenal job.

Lorde

My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

Mike Mohl

There are some items that are still hanging out there that need to be finalized.

Sam Smith

Even then I was hanging out around these.

Bethany Joy Lenz

I don't party. I'm a total homebody. I like hanging out with my cat, and I've actually been known to stay home and knit.

Pat Riley

We just kept hanging in, hanging in, hanging in.

Eric Balfour

I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Demi Lovato

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

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.

Archibald MacLeish

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

Ayn Rand

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

Jane Hirshfield

Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.

Shane Koyczan

I was never meant to be this thing...

Nabil Sha'ath

He told me he meant everything he said in his speech.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Josh Harding

I went outside and talked to Manny a bit. He said that every goalie has to go through it. It meant a lot for me that he was there.

Peter MacKay

This was not meant to be a slight to anyone.

Karl Pilkington

I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

Eric Cunningham

Small things like that--I think it meant a lot to people at the time,

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Jack London

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Danny Boyle

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Barry Gibb

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

John Philip Sousa

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

Nicolas Malebranche

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.

Mike McCready

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

John Woolman

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

John Wooden

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

Mason Cooley

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

Mencius

He who respects others is respected by them.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Tionne Watkins

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

Mike Tyson

I am not a role model.

Jesse McCartney

I'm in the gym pretty much every day. I've been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much authenticity to the role as I can.

Eugene H. Peterson

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

Estelle

I have never been interested in specific roles.

George W. Bush

I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Jim Tressel

Where we are at this moment, ... is not where you'd like to be after three games.

Dave Foley

We put a lot of work into three minutes.

H. P. Lovecraft

I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups--(a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logic. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.

Jane McGonigal

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.