Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Lippman

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

Rick Stockstill

On the defensive side of the ball, we signed a couple defensive linemen that are edge type guys who can come off the edge and are athletic. They have good bodies and can get bigger as they work in the weight room.

Menzies Campbell

No party is entirely subject to what happens to any one individual. The party is much bigger than that.

Mike Mathis

No other place except Angelina County can do a rodeo like this and get it done with this much success. Let's make sure this year's is bigger and better than all others.

Jerry Cunningham

Now we have the seniors. Last year, we brought all the seniors to the gym and had a few speakers talk about insurance and savings. This year we decided we would do a bigger program for them.

Jamal Qureshi

Now we have a hurricane heading for the bigger part of the coastal refinery center, threatening to blow a huge hole in products supply.

Glenn Tipton

Now we can play less, and to more people doing bigger venues in America, so that gives us more time, so I have to live in two places.

Mike Carroll

Now that we've stepped it up, it's a bigger rivalry now. It's actually competition now compared to what it used to be.

Jim Kelley

Obviously to increase someone's marketing opportunity, he's maybe going to have to expand his globe a little bigger than down the road to his neighbor.

Alfred North Whitehead

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred Kahn

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Aldo Leopold

My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it come as something magical, for when I rise in the coal black pre-dawn and kneel by the hearth to make a fire, he pushes himself blandly between me and the kindling splits I have laid in the ashes, and I must touch a match to them by poking it between his legs. Such faith , I suppose, is the kind that moves mountains.

Aldous Huxley

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

Aldous Huxley

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

Aldous Huxley

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

Aldous Huxley

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Albert Einstein

Experts are just trained dogs.

Sebastian Horsley

Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

Sarah Brightman

The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation.

Ed Goren

Troy sees everything the first time, ... He doesn't have to wait for the replay. That gives him a huge advantage.

Jeff Mirasola

We're very pleased with the plan. It gives us the flexibility in pricing packages. We can also institute promotions without having to telegraph them to our competitors.

Debbie Allen

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

Matt Coute

When we lost at Curry, it was the opposite because we got down 15 right away. A team like that, it just gives them confidence. You get up on them, they're going to fold. So it worked out well.

Sophia Amoruso

There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she's 21, she's totally flailing. Your story gives me hope.' I put my mom through that.

Doris Lessing

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

Rain

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Francis Jeffrey

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Anthony Browne

Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Gerald Gray

To the man who got shot, I apologize.

Clara Schumann

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

Imre Kertesz

I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.