Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?

Flip Murray

It is sort of a different lineup, maybe not one we'd use all the time. But I think I can play any role coach asks of me.

Mark Phillips

It is very fair, but asks questions all the way.

Kevin Bankston

Our goal is to go after the people who are making the government's illegal surveillance possible. They could not do what they are doing without the help of companies like AT&T. We want to make it clear to AT&T that it is not in their legal or economic interests to violate the law whenever the president asks them to.

Jamie Dixon

Our family thanks everyone for their support and prayers and asks for their continued respect and privacy.

Des Browne

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.

Windy Vancuren

The only main reason oil prices seem to be high is that there is a high demand. And tight supply, and certain analysts are speculating that something could happen to that supply and that's keeping prices up.

Dennis Gartman

And we are certain that when June's figures are compiled, the unemployment rate will be lower still.

quran

And We will most certainly try you with somewhat of fear and hunger and loss of property and lives and fruits; and give good news to the patient, / Who, when a misfortune befalls them, say: Surely we are Allah's and to Him we shall surely return.

Walter Pincus

Are you kidding? I certainly would have remembered that.

Suzi Quatro

Ever since I was a child, I've just had this sense that I'm connected to the spiritual world. I thought everyone else felt the same way. I can hear voices - not all the time - but when I'm with certain people, it sometimes comes through.

John Butters

Energy is certainly the driver of growth in the second quarter, with the sector expected to see year-over-year growth of 41 percent.

Howard Schultz

Elite teams have to demonstrate consistency. That's the challenge now, and certainly that's the expectation.

Richard Cizik

Environmentalism the term itself has a certain liability in our movement,

Kevin Cory

Elena certainly has accomplished a lot already. But there's also a lot of room for improvement, and that's kind of scary.

Kaz Matsui

I feel my role right now is to get on base, ... That's all I'm really focusing on.

Arthur Miller

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

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.

Daniel Everett

I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on.

Thomas H. Cook

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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 Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Ellen G. White

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.

Mike Roberts

When you are true to your values and culture, you can do well.

Susan Russell

When we started this, we were true amateurs.