Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Cheney

proud to be here this afternoon to be one of the first members of the federal family to welcome you to Washington.

Carl Honore

We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

Royce Chadwick

First I want to say 'thank you' to all the fans. It was a great crowd. It was a Sunday afternoon with clear weather and they came out to watch us and these seniors. I'm grateful. We did the best that we could do.

Joey Browder

We played at a really high level the night before and came out this afternoon flat and unfocused. We didn't hit the ball at the plate, and they did. There were bright spots and some good plays made in the field (by infielders Knapp and Lewis and first baseman Barnes). We had one bad inning and then played fair the rest of the game.

Henry David Thoreau

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

Todd Coffey

I can bring my two girls out here in the afternoon and let them play on the mini-field. It's a blast. I never did that before.

Kevin Garnett

I can't stand these afternoon games, to tell you the truth, but I know that they're a part of our schedule. When I come in here, I just know I have to get going early and try to get the blood flowing a little bit.

Marty Matzelle

I could see huge improvements from morning to afternoon everyday.

David Richard

I'd prefer it if it was Sunday afternoon right now but never mind,

Sidney Poitier

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I bet when neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, 'Don't forget the thick, heavy brows.' Then they would get all embarrassed because they remembered they had the big husky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.

Mike Carter

I bet Rhode Island is getting very nervous.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.

I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar.

I bet for an Indian, shooting an old fat pioneer woman in the back with an arrow, and she fires her shotgun into the ground as she falls over, is like the top thing you can do.

Larry Wheeler

I think they've got a lot of A-pluses going for them at this point. In six or seven or eight years, it will be a major player. I think its reputation is going to grow very, very quickly. You can bet on that.

John Mackey

I was in my early 20s and open to alternative lifestyles. I thought, 'I bet you get a lot of attractive, interesting women in a vegetarian co-op.'

Calvin Coolidge

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.

Russ Hill

We all signed off on it on Friday and did it on Wednesday. We worked day and night to get this done.

Dan Boyce

There's going to be a lot of guys out there on offense that are green Friday night.

Douglas Adams

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

Donald Glover

When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.

Neil Gaiman

Friday's a free day. A woman's day.

Donald Trump

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Billy Connolly

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Tom Odell

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

Pam Murphy

We literally taste every homemade product on our line every day. It takes two hours.

Agnetha Faltskog

I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.

Brittany Bowe

There's nowhere like home for me, but there has been something so interesting about most of the places I've visited. One that sticks out in my mind is traveling around South America. It's a huge continent, and I only got to see a small portion of it, but I've always liked going there.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Johnny Weir

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Pat Scales

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,

Mitch Landrieu

We miss you, and we want you back.

Alfred Kazin

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Dorothy Dunnett

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Danny Elfman

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Bashar al-Assad

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Benjamin Disraeli

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Alain Ducasse

Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London....You can’t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.

Jane Asher

My parents were not theatrical at all.

Terry Crews

I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say 'No' to parts they should have said 'Yes' to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, 'Maybe you shouldn't do that.' I'll do it all.

Diane Abbott

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

Elihu Root

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Lang Lang

So I think for me, it's nice, like a big brother, I can tell them what should pay attention, what shouldn't pay attention, what words you should take, what things you shouldn't take.

Jeff Kagan

People who want traditional phone service will pay what they are paying now.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Allen Douglas

No one should have to pay more than his or her portion of fault.

Terry Davis

No one can suppress the truth forever, but some people never stop trying. It is the journalists who pay the price.

Carlos Delgado

One time, they didn't pay me. But for the most part, they have treated me well.

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Charles Moskos

now that we pay soldiers to die for us, that Americans don't want to be reminded of sacrifice?

Daniel Day-Lewis

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Rona Raphael

I can't touch the room now. I throw a duster over it occasionally, but it has to stay the same.

Jackson Rathbone

It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!

John Green

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

Nate Silver

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Pope Benedict XVI

Mission is a workshop where there is room for all.

Shia LaBeouf

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Mwai Kibaki

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

Lisa Alther

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Mike Ryn

We've been spreading out the scoring pretty well, and that's what you need at this time of the year.

Rick Anthony

We are scoring in bunches and getting them from everywhere.