Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Mencia

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

Charisma Carpenter

When I was eight years old, or I may have been younger, my aunt picked me up and threw me in the pool and I didn't know how to swim. It was like, "Conquer your fear and just get on with it." It must have made an impact on me.

Charles M. Schulz

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

Billy Wilder

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

Caitlin Thomas

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

Calvin Trillin

Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

Dick Dale

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Charles Williams

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

Tom Shanahan

A lot of times they have a close relationship with an aunt or uncle or grandparent. We place the children with family members whenever possible.

Alan Green

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

Edith Piaf

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Eartha Kitt

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

Barry Commoner

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

Audre Lorde

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

Arne Duncan

No one is mandating merit pay.

Les Brown

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Benjamin Graham

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

Charles Dickens

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

Ron Perlman

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

Simon Cowell

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

Jean Giraudoux

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Lynne Truss

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.