Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Fleming

A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps

Joe McCarthy

The game started just about a half hour before their usual bedtime of 7:30. I'm thrilled we got to see half the game. Even if we only saw 10 minutes, it would've been worth it at 10 bucks a ticket.

Michael Longenberger

It's very easy to see those on a bedtime schedule and those not.

Paul Auster

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Allen Covert

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

Dom DeLuise

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Elton John

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Adam Goldstein

Though we think bedtime is the last thing on anyone's mind while on a Royal Caribbean cruise, we do realize that sleeping well is essential to our guest's vacation experience.

Warren Farrell

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

Jeremy Siegel

I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began to dim.

Drew Gilpin Faust

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

Thomas Galvin

I think we're returning to the inflationary worries which is more painful for interest rate-sensitive (companies) and less an issue for technology. It's a similar rotation that began yesterday (Thursday). People are concerned about inflation.

Roxane Gay

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

Shaun Treacy

It goes back 2 or 3 years when we began to see quite a large growth in our event business including meetings, conferences and banquets. Our whole business grew quite dramatically over the past couple of years and we felt we were running out of space.

JD Salinas

I thank Mr. Garcia for a good race and for bringing Hidalgo County this far. I've already began researching several issues that I consider critical to residents here, and I am ready to get to work.

Eric Matthews

It has been a privilege to work with Nate the last four years. He began turning our program around and the kids respect him. The number of kids out for the team says a lot.

Lindy Ruff

He's built for the game. He's got good tools at the back end and he's a very good defender. We've never given him a set role. He began to play well on the power play and he gained a lot of confidence from that. That confidence came from him knowing that he would be in the lineup night after night.

Joseph Alsop

I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth...

John Edwards

Jude comes from a completely medical family - her brothers and sisters are all doctors, her father's a doctor, her mother's a nurse. She just loves real stuff.

Mardy Fish

I think it is only a matter of time before that happens. I think some of the other guys who aren't exactly household names in tennis, but everybody is under 23. The Bryan Brothers (Mike and Bob) have done a lot to try to promote doubles, promote Davis Cup.

Priya Paul

It is good to have a personal relationship with God, but another good thing is to pray with your brothers and sisters.

Paul Sanders

I watched it last year, and I loved the competition and how much the brothers get into it, so I decided to join in on the fun.

Michael Styles

Hopefully there is enough of a community for our brothers and sisters coming in.

Mohammed Deif

He was shot by our brothers with a 7 mm pistol ... which was the only pistol that we had.

Don Bluth

I can look at one that Warner Brothers just did - The Iron Giant. A really cool movie. I truly enjoyed that movie.

Janet Jackson

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

Mike Nichols

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things that they aren't saying. It's a way to explore scenes. Sometimes it's more useful than others, but it's always there to see if there's anything that you might improve.

Justin Brouse

I was in the backfield and I came out on the wheel. And Corey Martin just lobbed it up to me.

Alex Cintron

I was in shock. I was happy, though. (Arizona) didn't have the confidence in myself. They were looking to trade me and I came here to Chicago. It is going to be good for me.

Anna Maxwell Martin

I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.

Robin Ross

Kevin is one of those success stories. Things hadn't worked out other places, he came here and now he's doing well academically and he's on track football wise. Those kinds of things are why you coach.

Melissa Arms

Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confident.

Natalie Peters

Kling has a good arm. She just came up and did what she does every day in practice.

Don Thornton

Just mentioning that cameras are up there deters people.

Jay Lapidus

Joey did a good job of fighting. He did a good job of being aggressive. We have a lot of confidence in him and he came through for us today.

Robert Hammonds

Joel played with a lot of heart, tonight. He didn't score when we came over here last time. He really got after it and we have to have that out of our seniors.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

David Sowerby

I think it is still a classic 'show-me' stock.

George Thorogood

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Joshua Cohen

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

Dan Harmon

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Joe Wright

Emma was the fairy godmother of the film; she gave wonderful advice.

Andrew Bogut

There's no way we're going to lose Game 3 and come back and win this thing. There's not going to be any fairy tales. We need to get Game 3.

Amos Oz

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Sonya Hartnett

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

Marilyn Hacker

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Mignon McLaughlin

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

Douglas Jerrold

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Brad Turner

Jacksonville was faster and Forney was bigger, so we've seen different types of defenses, ... We feel like we can do some things.

John Thomson

Keeping them off my fastball made my fastball that much better. I think that's the big key for that lineup, because they're such a good fastball-hitting team.

Ryan Lochte

I tapped him in the gut when I was walking over to the starting blocks. I'm just going to feed off this the rest of the meet because what I swam tonight was pretty fast for me.

John Whitelavich

He was a linebacker last year and we were looking for a tailback and tried him there. He didn't know the plays very well, but he's learned them now and got faster over the summer. He's a tough runner.

Dusty Baker

He wanted the victory and knew we needed it. His fastball was moving.

Johnny Damon

He can set you up with a changeup, then throw an 88-mph fastball by you.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game.

Jim Johnson

He is playing faster than I've ever seen him play.

Kevin McAvoy

He left a fastball right outside and I just went with it, did what I could with it.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Andy Schulz

Kids were making plays all over the place. They refused to lose. We refused to lose. Time just ran out. Fortunately, we were ahead.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Lisa Murray

Kids saw their town from a different perspective, through the lens of a camera.

John Lawrence

Kids need to try different things. They're making us do this and we shouldn't be doing this. There is no reason.

Patty Murray

Kids need something in this town to do,

Barbara Ward

Just to know what the kids were talking about in school was more meaningful than anything I could write in a parent newsletter,

Pete Boone

He wanted to be here. He knows that he can be a success here. He's been a success before. He knows what it takes.

Chris Moore

He can split through two guys, and nobody knows how he got through,

Craig Smith

He knows the biotech world very well. We need someone like that at this stage.

Larry Coker

He knows that there is that window of opportunity and he has to respond,

Freddy Adu

He knows me, so he'll probably know what I'm up to, but I've matured a lot since I went pro,

Felipe Alou

He knows we need him real bad. Even if he's not up to par.

Tony Amonte

He's been in the No. 1 spot before so he knows the pressure, he knows how to play.

Brian Gionta

He's been around a lot longer, so he knows more than I would.

Mike Shula

He's doing OK. He knows it's going to be a long haul, and he's ready.

Frank Middleton

He taught me a lesson, ... Never slow down.

Jeff Johnson

I have to tell her to slow down sometimes.

Dustin McGowan

I'm just not comfortable. I'm out there thinking too much and things are going a little too fast. I've got to find a way to slow it down and start pitching.

Jason Guffey

I?m disappointed because I wanted to win the match, but it?s just going to make me work harder. I can?t let this slow me down at all.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Donald Bachman

You can't stop the wear. But, you can slow it way down.

Michael Apted

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Julian Casablancas

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Satchel Paige

I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.

Steve Evans

(The fight) was the right time to get a little spark going.

Libba Bray

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Ben Stein

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Miranda Cosgrove

Sparks fly, it's like electricity...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Plato

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

Philip Treacy

Everybody loves things that sparkle.

John Buskirk

That was really the spark that got us in gear.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.