Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

C. S. Lewis

We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Blair Underwood

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

Diane Cilento

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Art Buchwald

The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

Brad Paisley

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard

Jana Kramer

I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with I Hope It Rains it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.

Ben E. King

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Carl Sandburg

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

Cameron Crowe

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Miley Cyrus

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

Benjamin Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Brian Tracy

We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.

Brenda Ueland

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

Boyd Rice

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

Boz Scaggs

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

Cardinal Richelieu

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Daniel Handler

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

Bruce Lee

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

Charles Fillmore

I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.