Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Bush

But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.

Laura Bush

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

Martha Washington

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Betty Ford

It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Betty Ford

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

Barbara Bush

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

Barbara Bush

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well.

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Glenn Stanton

John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless of which side they are on. But that is very rare. Most people seem thankful for the way and seriousness with which we engage the issue and our obvious respect for each other.

Zhang Ziyi

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

George Pierce Baker

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Cillian Murphy

He obviously knows through his movies how to exploit terror, and he seems to be able to investigate fears that we all have and exploit them or magnify them. There's a particular way of doing films like this. There's a particular way to manipulate the audience to get sort of a reaction out of them, and he can do that.

Wendy Liebmann

Here is this audience that is waiting to be plucked. They have a lot of money to spend, so they are a really big deal.

Frank Darabont

He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Kenneth Chenault

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Marcus Williams

I thought we were going to win. We were in the same situation to Friday night. We just didn't follow through.

Christopher Brown

I think the judge followed the law. I know it hurt Mr. Parker, but the judge did what was fair.

Floyd Reese

Whatever the rules are, we'll follow them. I personally think it's healthier for the league to have a cap, but that's my opinion.

Doug Kramer

We try to follow the show, but nobody gets voted out. And of course, we make sure nobody is without necessities.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Mike Moore

We take it from the house and turn it into what you see here.

Robert Hoehn

I think by the end of next week they'll be cheaper. We'll get through some House legislation yet.

Ruth Rendell

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

Robert Sweeney

I was just sitting there watching t.v., and it sounded like the whole house shook.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Robert Smith

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Corey Claitt

I just wanted a different environment. I wanted to be on my own. I wanted to go somewhere and be by myself.

Jan Roberts

I'm averaging somewhere around 21 and a half, which is disappointing considering the window sticker told me I'd be averaging somewhere around 31.

Gary Sheffield

It's always my situation. It's always, I've got to be somewhere for one or two years, they re-evaluate you from here and there and then go from there.

Beth Orton

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Peter Bergman

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

Larry Blair

You have to start somewhere and do what you can.

Robert Kiyosaki

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

Anthony Edwards

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Sandra Cisneros

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

William O. Douglas

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Sarah Dessen

Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

Saint Augustine

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

Zhuangzi

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for