Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Greil Marcus

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hooman Majd

He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.

Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Ian Mckellen

Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

Ian Mckellen

I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Chris Larsen

Some people would say we're being overly-conservative. But I say we're being realistic for our first year planning.

Source Unknown

Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.

Harry Wang

Some people will not be tolerant about this.

Jill Lepore

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

John Cassidy

Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.

Michelle Lombardo

Some people watched the show just because of the wardrobe, ... That's exciting.

Tracey Emin

Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.

Lori Mottu

Some people told us not to put the restaurant in Ceresco because of the size and location. But that's really why we're doing this. There's nothing here.

Corey Brewer

You would have thought after a while they would have caught on. But we just kept running it.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Pixie Lott

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

Gladys Bettis

We donated it to a church and had it fixed up, but we don't know what happened to it. I didn't even know it caught on fire.

Larry Johnson

Those guys can get caught out of position if the offensive line and we all do our job the way we're supposed to do our job. There's a lot of things we can open offensively to pressure them to make them make mistakes,

Paul Pearl

Those guys are very good, but if you get caught thinking about specific players that's a big mistake. You have to worry about what you're doing as a team and the team you're playing against.

Charles Blood

We're caught in a sort of psychological trap here and sometimes to get out you've got to go down first.

Pat Riley

We're caught between a rock and a hard place.

Jim Thompson

We escaped with a victory in this match. This was a match where they had the lead, we caught up and went ahead, and then we tried to give away.