Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Keaton

I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.'

Chauncey Billups

I love that young kid's game, man. He's been playing really well, and he's brought some hope to that franchise. He will be one day where I am at -- one day fast.

Marnie Stern

I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.

Scott Turow

I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

John Greene

Their very success has brought extra criticism that feeds this sense of being persecuted, ... Before, they felt a lack of respect. Now, they feel some hostility.

Daryl Sabara

The cool thing about 'Spy Kids 3D: Game Over' was that Robert Rodriguez brought back 3D. I feel like he did with that film. Now, every film is 3D.

Jason Chaffetz

I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.

Frank Darabont

I'm glad that stuff like this and The Green Mile and Dolores Claiborne and Stand By Me have brought Stephen King properly into focus as a storyteller.

Reed Brody

The chances each day are greater that if you commit atrocities, you will be brought to book.

Gilda Radner

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

Kirk Kaul

We couldn't wait to get back on the floor after our loss on Tuesday and we were focused. When we saw that Gaspar was out we had to change our plan. With him out we decided we could press them.

Drayton McLane

(Boras) updated me. He's still negotiating. We're still in it, but the time is getting short. They've given us no indication (Beltran is close to signing with the Mets). We're patiently waiting for some positive developments. We have three days to go, and in baseball, that's a long way to go. We did not change our offer in any way.

Marsha Blackburn

Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change.

Bing Gordon

It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.

James Forni

You can't create a majority with this election. You can increase the regular minority vote on the council, but you're not going to change the outcome.

Paul Godfrey

You can't change the direction of a battleship overnight.

Seth Palansky

You can't change it. So love it, embrace it and enjoy it.

David Carr

You can't change an offense in a week, ... But I think it will help.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Marty Simmons

At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Ron Iwami

Try to encourage them to vote in our favor because they are protected by the law to do what they're doing.

Iqbal Quadir

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

Gregg Sulkin

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

Bindi Irwin

I want to encourage other young girls not to grow up too soon. Just enjoy the now.

Dan Davis

Our focus must always be on building people up.

Andrae Crouch

Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Steve Jobs

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

Stephen King

A change is as good as a rest.

Ted Turner

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

Philip Roth

The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.

Nicolas Chamfort

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Mario Cuomo

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Mario Cuomo

Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.

Michael Caine

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Michael Caine

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Irish Proverb

Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.

Irwin Cohen

Purchases aren't so much 'needs-driven', ... People say, 'I want it.'

Irene Cara

The rumors emanated from people who are in a position of power.

Ed Wade

I've talked to players before about - you can't turn this around. It has to be about the fans. People have a right to boo.

Sally Thompson

I've seen people from Mississippi trying to get back home.

Charlie Green

I've never seen this like this before, people are not so much worried about the price, just getting the fuel.

Tom Burns

I've never seen the people who own DRS.

Karen Miller

It was too complicated for people to get.

Janet Belsky

These shows are so right psychologically they have to do people a lot of good.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Lynn Cohen

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

Adam Katz

This story is one of the more overblown stories I have ever seen,

Marc Morial

There are, as is the case, conflicting stories about what may have happened,

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

David Jeremiah

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

David Eddings

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Chris Martin

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.