Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Pym

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.

Ally Carter

Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

Dolly Parton

I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.

Judith Jamison

I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, somebody down the block from you. An aunt or an uncle. Some relative. A parent.

Jessica McNamee

I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

Will Grace

Grace- If you're looking for your Aunt Karen, she's not here. She doesn't work on days that end with..."day.

Mary Quant

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

William Shenstone

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Margaret Atwood

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

Greg Patterson

We use it at the border at Johnstown and in the St. Lawrence area. And we use it for public demonstrations. There's only one like this in the district.

Michael Armstrong

Borders all over the world are coming down, and as they come down opportunities spring up, ... Companies reach further to compete with their products and services, and when they want to open shop, wherever they want to open shop, they want those communications services to support their people and their products, and we've got to be there.

Michael Chertoff

We cannot hermetically seal 7,000 miles of land borders and keep out 100 percent of illegal crossers, ... But we can create such a high likelihood of interdiction that it will have a strong and unequivocal deterrent effect on those who wish to cross illegally.

Martin Jacques

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.

Erin Hunter

Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?

David Heymann

Hong Kong, with its dense population and fluid border with China, had one of the hardest outbreaks to control.

Jerry Jarrell

One or more of the (forecast) models bring it on shore (along) the Georgia-South Carolina border with winds of, perhaps, 50 miles an hour.

Don Bryant

Migrants that have died crossing the border will be memorialized with the sign that hangs on the fence.

Uzi Landau

Who is this clever Palestinian who would be prepared to sit with us and negotiate if upon only waiting he'll get anything he wants? Then he'll come to the line that we decide is going to be the permanent border and he'll continue to push.

Daisy Ridley

I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

Jay Leno

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Adrienne Bailon

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.

Vance Stevens

There's not a whole lot of famous people around here.

Max Clifford

Now people are famous for doing things that 15 years ago they would have tried hard to keep out of the papers.

Carrie Coon

I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.

Shane McAnally

I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous.

Jay Ryan

I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.