Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Stevens

He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he's not climbing on her, he's chewing on her. . . . She lets him treat her like a giant chew toy.

Steve Almond

It isn't the flavor of coconut that troubles me, but the texture I feel as if I'm chewing on a sweetened cuticle.

Tucker Martin

It's hard to reach 7 million people. People spend millions of dollars marketing chewing gum. This is about choosing the next chief executive of Virginia. This is important.

Michael Haneke

It's because I am a coward. At school, when there were fights, I'd run away. I have always been scared of physical violence. Perhaps that's the reason. But it also angers me to see gratuitous violence, wrapped up like chewing gum to be consumed. It's irritating; it's cynical.

Jack Handey

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something. - (Deep Thoughts) Saturday Night Live

Shawn Wayans

We grew up in the Garbage Pail Kids era with the Wacky Packs. We miss that kind of fun we used to have when we were kids, flipping through the packs and chewing the gum and reading the funny little jokes.

Brandon Boyd

Seeing you is like pulling teeth and hearing your voice is like chewing tin foil!!!

Ben Kingsley

The title is the equivalent of when you become a doctor after years of medical school training... I suppose after years of chewing up the furniture and scenery on stage and in films I get to Sir for being a thespian.

Willy Wonka

Chewing Gum is really gross, chewing gum I hate the most.

Simon Gagne

I talked to the doctor (Saturday) and it's (more) positive that I originally thought.

Larry Brown

He keeps telling me he wants to come back. If the doctors give him the OK, we'll do it, but we'll just go day to day. It would be great to have him back, but if not, I'll get to play Steve more and Jamal more and Nate.

George Hamilton

I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous to me.' I'll listen for about twenty minutes and I'll say excuse me, 'Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you're saying it could turn into cancer but it's not cancer?'

Kelly Nichols

Her kidneys are shutting down. They are doing this surgery to save the kidneys and give the doctors time to find out what is wrong.

Ty Zabel

He's going with parental and doctor permission. It's his senior year.

Lord Warner

We've been told for some time that we should be more self-sufficient in doctors and not suck in doctors from overseas.

David Oaks

We're opposed to all these techniques because they're inherently intrusive and irreversible, and they give doctors a lot of control. It's like throwing gas on a fire.

Melissa Dover

We told the doctor not to sugarcoat it, and if our time was short we wanted to know it.

Gary Bass

What you say may very well be true, but I would feel better hearing what the doctor has to say.

Kathleen Hanna

I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.

Don Moore

What we give them is the equivalent of a catered experience of being in a band.

Alice Thompson

Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.

Shirley Chisholm

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

Frank Beamer

I personally like it, ... I think our kids like it. I think it's the equivalent of Monday night football in the pros. You're the only game on or you're the most important game on TV.

Rebel Wilson

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.

Frank McKenna

the equivalent of someone standing on street corners, turning in jaywalkers, and then getting the fine money.

Avery Johnson

And I think he wants another shot, because he was really disappointed that he was unable to play in the playoffs. We missed him tremendously. That's just like the Spurs losing Robert Horry. That's the equivalent to what Keith does for us.

Felix Kramer

It's like having a second small fuel tank in your car. You fill it at home by plugging it into the socket at night - and it gives you transportation around town for the equivalent of less than $1 a gallon.

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Gael Bernal

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Dirk Benedict

It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.

Anthony Minghella

It is my well. I always go to Italian films to be replenished.

Jonas Armstrong

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

Jim Jarmusch

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

Zachary Smith

We've even got a list of about 15 people who've helped us out, giving us $20 or offering to give us furniture when we get settled down. We just thought that if we got their information, we could give something back to them once we get straightened out here in Katy.

Tim Connolly

I moved in my patio furniture and my hanging plants. I've got my shutters numbered and can get them up in an hour if need be.

Sebastian Horsley

I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.

Billy Brown

Not too many people knew. I sure didn't. I'd never even heard of Levitz furniture before this,

Jane Goldman

It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!

Nicole Polizzi

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

Joseph Roth

That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.

Lenny Kravitz

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

Joseph Volpe

I think it's an opportunity for him to really take the time now, that he has the time, to look at all of his medical needs.

John Taylor

I thought something else should have been done at the time. But I'm not a medical doctor.

John Olerud

I didn't need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

Fred Gordon

He had a variety of other medical problems, so part of the problem is we've been sorting through those medical issues.

Yumi Oshima

Part of the problem is her parents live in Taiwan and she only has the Rutgers Medical Insurance. They can't transport her back to Taiwan because she is in such serious condition.

Jeff Wilpon

I'm not worried. He's making progress at his pace and I know what our medical people think.

Paul Morgan

I'm making enough for the prosthetics and making a statement about the medical establishment, ... ... Yeah, I'm trying to make a little profit too.

Wendy Wright

In any scenario in which a woman would be taking the morning-after pill she needs medical intervention.

James H. Boren

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

Mitch Albom

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

Henry David Thoreau

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

Teju Cole

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Jessica Pare

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Julie Brown

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Aaron Johnson

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Alexis Gordon

I thought the school would never be done.

Diane Benczkowski

I think we?re suppressing our residents, school and students.

Jan Murphy

I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.

Deirdre O'Kane

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

Linda Howard

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

Edward Kennedy

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

Allan Bloom

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

William Congreve

Well, Sir Joseph, you have such a winning way with you.

Frances Mayes

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

Fernando Pessoa

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Jaron Lanier

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

Terry Pratchett

Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?' I don't know. I like being a writer.

A. Hodge

What will be very interesting at this stage is that for a lot of guys, this will be the first time that they have raced all year.

Christy Austin

I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.

Rick James

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

William H. Macy

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

Yelena Isinbayeva

The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool.

Henry Rollins

I'm most comfortable on stage.

Miranda Sissons

This is a very important stage in the trial.

Chris Hamilton

Talks are progressing on one or two fronts but we're not yet at the stage where we are waiting on anybody.

Marc Cohn

I wanted to just get back out and feel my way back to the stage in a low-key way.

Mario Gallucci

He did everything he was supposed to do, the right way.

Tom Burchill

We talk about having fun. This is a race, this is a sport and it's supposed to be fun. We work so hard, this better be fun.

Katerina Kudlackova

I think we were supposed to win this match, and we did.

Manny Acta

I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.

Dave Moates

He was throwing where he was supposed to be throwing and making his pitches.

Mark Ferguson

He taught me that I'm not supposed to have a signature. I'm supposed to be telling the client's story, not my own.

Cliff Lee

He did what he was supposed to do with that pitch.

Rick Warren

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!

Jeremy Corbyn

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

William Cowper

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Henry Rollins

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

Marcia Gay Harden

The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'

Kay Redfield Jamison

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

Margaret Thatcher

Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

John Flavel

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

Jonathan Ive

Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers,

James M. Barrie

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.