Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bristol Palin

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Amy Poehler

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

Amy Poehler

When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when youre a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

Amy Poehler

When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.

Amy Poehler

It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.

Amy Poehler

What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.

Amy Poehler

Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. But that's ridiculous. My mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.

Ally Carter

You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

Ally Carter

Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. “No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Joy Williams

Everything is gone. And it's not so much the material things. It's just ... that's home.

Clint Hurdle

The responsibility's on the runner to run through home plate all the time. There's no reason to ever slow down unless it's a home run. That way it's safety first and there's no questions.

Andrew Lochart

There's still plenty of unprotected home users, but this virus isn't ground-breaking.

David Henderson

There's so much parity in the league, so you've got to get those home wins. This one hurt. We needed to squeeze it out.

Cedric Bozeman

There's no time to be tired now. This is it. You lose, you go home and we don't want to go home.

Adam LaRoche

There's nothing worse than to lose in the first round, ... I'd rather not be in the playoffs at all. There's nothing worse than to have to go home after a loss.

Troy Vincent

There's nothing like winning. At least you can go home for at least that week and feel half-decent about yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven days is too long between massages

Ani Difranco

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Andrew Motion

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Amy Poehler

Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.

Ally Carter

No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.

Allen Tate

Death's long anabasis.

Alison Gopnik

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

Ann Brashares

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.