Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. Hicks

The police received a call from a pay phone in the high school that a student heard a conversation in the bathroom about a bomb, ... But someone may not have overheard anything.

Virginia Hey

When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I had a love of perfumes.

Regina Brett

Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank.

Mark Brown

The 3 a.m. walk to the bathroom when it's raining is really a drag, especially in the winter months, ... Plus, your friends think you're weird, but that's what makes it unique.

Selma Blair

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

Kristy Curry

We'll probably take a deep breath. I'm hungry, so I'll probably go get something to eat. Make sure the two little ones have their baths and are in bed, and then we'll watch North Carolina.

Marc Kudisch

We wanted to make it clean and simple, to get as much use out of the space as possible. The bathroom was really a mess. There was carpeting and wallpaper. We took out the tub and put in a walk-in shower. We put in tile, no carpet. We left the cedar on the ceiling, because we didn't want to lose the cabin feeling.

Brian Smith

Mike has been brilliant for us. He is a Bath boy and there has been a massive interest in him, but if we can keep winning we might convince him to stay here. He has a great rugby intellect and is sure to figure very heavily in the future of English rugby.

Sarah Andrews

It does a little video taping, so we got her first bath when she was in the room with us and when we were deciding her name. We got that on tape too.

Ice Cube

'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.

Gillian Armstrong

Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money.

Gillian Armstrong

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.

Waylon Jennings

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

Abraham Lincoln

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Alfred Verrecchia

The overall decline in our boys' business hurt toys' profitability because that is a high margin business for us,

Ann Romney

That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.

Dev Hynes

I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.

Rick Perlstein

In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.

Warren Bennis

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.

Colin Morgan

Merlin was five years of my life. I enjoyed every year, every day. I had a brilliant time on it. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I wanted to do more.

Ellen Key

Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.

Brittany Curran

Meryl Streep is my favorite actor. She is so classy and a brilliant actress. Her performance in 'Sophie's Choice' just kills me.

Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.

Nina Garcia

One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise.

Dean Johnson

That was a great goal. Stevie took it to the flag and crossed it, and Cabrera volleyed it. That was a brilliant goal. That was the one that put the icing on the game.

Olivia Newton-John

Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.

V. S. Naipaul

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

Nawal El Saadawi

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Ron Vos

We need to know if they're responsible. And the reps have to be outgoing enough to convince a store owner to put a poster in their window.

Joe Tiller

We have utilized the quarterback as a runner, but not as an option guy. We haven't been convinced we can put all the time into the option and the spread passing game and be equally effective at both. We feel we can do that now.

Richard Leakey

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

Philippe Petit

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

Philip Schultz

I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.

Bernard Thibault

We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..

Bill Richardson

When I saw that program in 1967, I was convinced I was drafted, ... And it stayed with me all these years.

Yael Naim

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

Thomas Dekker

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Thomas Dekker

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Thomas Beecham

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Thomas Beecham

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Ian Mcewan

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

Ian Mcewan

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

Ian Wright

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.

Gregg Popovich

The pieces have to fit around him. The fortunate thing for us is that it seems that, given enough talent, all pieces fit around Timmy. He figures it out.

Rene Locher

The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.

Annie Lennox

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

Chuck Schumer

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Mike Dunleavy

That would be nice. But I've come to realize that might not happen. I'm just going to be ready. You've got to be ready for the ball, you've got to make cuts, you've got to find other ways to score, put points on the board, make the team better. If I don't get plays called for me, I'll figure something else out.

Jerry Sloan

That will figure itself out at the end of the year.

Avery Cutshaw

We could move the football; we've just got to figure out a way to get it in the end zone. We had opportunity after opportunity. We just didn't capitalize.

Scott Peterson

We just didn't come out tonight and have it. I thought we figured it out this week, but we still have a lot ... to work on.

Wyclef Jean

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Ellie Goulding

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Brooke Adams

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

Brian K. Vaughan

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Daniel Kahneman

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Dean Geyer

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career.

Barack Obama

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Nayvadius Cash

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Barry Ritholtz

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing ...

William Shakespeare

He was not so much brain as earwax

Rig Veda

For the successful accomplishment of any work one needs sharp intellect and the will to perform relentless Karma.

Cary Elwes

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Camille Paglia

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Edward Gibbon

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

Frederic Bastiat

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

Gabriel Macht

Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

Carl Griffith

We could have a massive inundation of Port Arthur.

Margot Robbie

'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.

Zara Phillips

My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.

John Edwards

We have to sell that to young people. It's a massive opportunity.

Holliday Grainger

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

Jose Pena

I was struck by all of the victims and the massive destruction.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

David Davis

He should take responsibility for what has been a massive failure.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Gerell Robinson

Mike got open in the back of the end zone. It was picture-perfect.

Jim Mora

Mike doesn't miss games. He'll do whatever it takes to get ready to go.

David Kelley

Mike did that completely on his own. I suspect it will be a 6-1 vote to keep him.

Willie Randolph

I think Mike is going to be a little longer. I don't see him rushing back or anything like that.

Vladimir Guerrero

I swung after they took me out (Thursday), ... I just wanted to make sure I could tell (manager) Mike (Scioscia) I was OK. I didn't want to wait until (Friday).

Jack Brittain

What Mike has done is just incredible. He's really got people excited.

Michael Vick

I didn't want to see Mike go. I wish they would have consulted me, but it's all good.

Lesley Manville

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Bruce Bochy

We're going to play Mike as much as we can.

Andrew Johns

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Darren Lockyer

St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.

Gavin Henson

I've always said Scott is something of a rugby revolutionary.

Graham Lowe

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

Javier Bardem

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

Jonathan Davis

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

Jonah Lomu

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didnt just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

Virginia Graham

The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.

Wendell Sailor

His body is changing. He will strip down and start getting even bigger and stronger over the next few seasons and, seriously, how scary is that? He will be unstoppable. He has just got to realise how good he is and what he can do in the game if he puts his mind to it.

Venus Williams

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

Brittany Snow

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Arsene Wenger

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

Joe Gibbs

We'll probably stay the same way we are with kicking.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Ashley Olsen

Usually when we're working we just stay in the hotel, but it was really nice.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Steve Jobs

We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.

Scooter Smith

We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Arsene Wenger

You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.

Arsene Wenger

If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

Bill Vaughan

The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

Bill Vaughan

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Bill Bradley

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Bill Burton

While Donald Trump is showing some strength in places like Iowa, it's just not enough to get him close to getting the electoral votes that he needs to win.