Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Rob Andrew

This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation.

Camilo Villegas

You never know. I'm sure she's down about it. She's only 16 and she's going to keep learning. She's got a lot of pressure on her, but she handled herself well out there.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Barbara Kingsolver

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Diana Vreeland

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

Jaromir Jagr

Of course, you can work hard, but you have to be lucky too and you have to have a lot of talent. And later in the season, it's just my opinion, the talent is always going to show up.

Pat Gerard

That's iron-fisted control, and sooner or later it's going to fail.

John Gibbons

We could probably use some of those later in the year.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

James Lowry

She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her even richer.

Joaquin Phoenix

Because of all the scenes of him writing songs, it wouldn't work to have me singing the lines while he's writing, and then have his voice come out later onstage,

Norv Turner

He's very sore today. It will be later in the week when we'll see how quickly the soreness leaves.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Michael Small

We've had quite a run in the Caribbean.

Philippe Perrin

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

Maisie Williams

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

Jim Bagnall

This was setting up to be a really wet system. Now there are indications that it won't be quite as significant.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Amy Winehouse

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

Alexander Ovechkin

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

David Foster Wallace

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

Stephen Chbosky

And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.

Brigid Brophy

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Jennifer Weiner

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Jonathan Swift

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

Audre Lorde

Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.