Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Lee

My dad had the idea in 1963. As a promotion, it's been a gold mine ever since.

Larry Holmes

My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?

Johnny Vegas

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

Michael Steger

Even when I was doing well in acting, my dad would say, 'You can still go back to dental school.' But since I've been on '90210,' I haven't heard that.

Flip Saunders

Even when I got fired, I thought I could be part of the solution. I wasn't the problem. People make decisions, and like my dad said, 'Things always work out for a reason.' You never know why it happens, but things always work out for the best.

Chrissy Teigen

It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

Estelle Johnson

It's been fun playing on the same team together. I know my dad has always wanted two of his kids to play on the same team, so I think we are kind of living out a dream for him.

Sandra Hughes

It knocked the mirror off the wall in the living room. My dad had been working on the room for two years, and he finally got it done this week. But he had fretted about that tree, because it curved over the house, and it had been pulled out of its roots by the hurricanes.

Jeb Bush

It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate.

Herman Melville

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

Jean Toomer

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Gucci Mane

I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

Harriet Martineau

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.

Gregory Maguire

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Ignatius of Loyola

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.

Gore Vidal

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'

Gillian Jacobs

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

A. A. Milne

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

Dambisa Moyo

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

Dave Matthews

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

David Levithan

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

David Levithan

i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

David Gemmell

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

Billy Graham

I wish I'd watched less TV.