Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Townsend

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Jack Nicklaus

I always enjoyed La Costa. I had some great times there. It was kind of funny, because La Costa sat right on the heels of the Masters and I'd say to my wife, 'I really don't want to go out and play this week; I'm tired.' And Barbara would say, 'You get out of this house and get out there and play.' And she'd kick me out and make me go out there, and rightfully so, because I always had good preparation for the Masters and it carried over many times into the Tournament of Champions.

Ted Olson

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

Catherine Bach

I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I didn't believe her name. So I just replied: 'Yeah, and I'm Cathy Carrot.' I think maybe I got off on the wrong foot!

Ann Strother

I think it was just a crucial play that we needed at a big point in the game. Either they were going to get the momentum back on their side and continue to kind of chip away at us and you could've seen something that happened the other night. It definitely was a big play. Coach called it up and Barbara set a great screen. I was wide open.

Kevin Williamson

I was watching this Barbara Walters special on the Gainesville (Florida) murders, ... And I was getting so spooked. I was being scared out of my mind. During the commercial break, I heard a noise. And I had to go search the house. And I went into the living room and a window was open. And I'd been in this house for two days. I'd never noticed the window open. So I got really scared. So I went to the kitchen, got a butcher knife, got the mobile phone. I called a buddy of mine,

Susan Ford

I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it.

Lois Capps

I am concerned about it with so many endangered species right in the Santa Barbara County area,

Geno Auriemma

Right now she?s playing with a lot of confidence. There?s nothing Barbara can?t do out there; it?s just a matter of being locked in mentally and right now she seems to be.

Buff Hochman

Jake, you are getting raped in the street by a bunch of thugs. Are you gonna sit there and take it like a little girl, or are you gonna fight back?!

Mike Shanahan

Jake played extremely well. He made a bunch of big plays. They had a lot of pressure on him and they had a very talented defensive front.

Adrian Moss

I would say they have their own style. They have a bunch of older guys, guys my age. They're going to know what they're doing. They've been around.

David Cope

Kelsey, that's her first hat trick of her career, which is an accomplishment at any level. That's great. I didn't realize that until she said it. She's got a bunch of goals for her career, and is going to get a bunch more.

Mitch Johnson

Just the term 'Special Olympics' kind of throws people off at first. Like 'retarded' is used, just a whole bunch of words that are not cool.

Mark Gainforth

Jordan was pretty special again. He kind of took over. He hit four threes, had seven assists and a bunch of steals. That's just the way he plays.

Bobby Crosby

Joe should definitely be near the top of the list as far as guys being considered. It's not his fault we don't score a bunch of runs for him. He could have 15 wins.

Bill Richardson

I talked with some of his teammates and classmates. They were naturally solemn, but I'm happy to say that generally they seemed to be doing pretty well. They're a tough bunch of kids.

Martin Campbell

I suspect there are a bunch of us lone rangers out there.

Barry Lynn

I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of churches and religion for partisan purposes in states like Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Bruno

I also encourage our borough's businesses, churches and synagogues to replicate their wonderful efforts after the tsunami to now do what they can to support victims of what has been described as one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history.

George W. Romney

My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.

Rusty Brown

The only thing I would do differently is, I might make the great room wider and longer. When we do get a ton of people up here, this room is full - but that's like designing a church for Easter Sunday.

Edward McKendree Bounds

God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Joseph Hayes

I think it's important for the community to know that the church has lasted this long,

David Williamson

It is a big deal when a church gets a bell. This church has been here since 1925, and our steeple has never had a bell.

Steve Sexton

It is a joy each year to see the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs through the eyes of talented young students.

Alice McCarthy

I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I think it is going to be an opportunity for straight people to see with gays and lesbians think about the church.

Je'Kel Foster

I talked to my dad last night and he said to keep shooting, that the shots were going to fall. I was just listening to my dad.

Carlos Ponce

I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

Chris Duncan

I always felt I had to prove I was worthy. Especially being a first-round (supplemental) pick and having your dad as a coach. I don't want anything ever to be just handed to me.

Phyllis Lehman

He was a good dad and a good provider. He'd do anything for you. He'd give you anything he possibly could.

SuzAnne Miller

He was a wonderful dad and a wonderful man.

Nick Saban

He'd come and visit his dad in the summer,

Bill Scott

He kept telling me he was ready and his dad told me he was ready. After we missed the extra point, I figured enough was enough.

Stephen J. Cannell

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.

Shakira

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

Mike Lee

Knights management is very excited about having Jamel, Logan, Ricky, David, and Eugene in the fold for this upcoming season.

Todd Bradley

Kearns wasn't taking a team to sectionals. I went looking for another team to train with, and Matt seemed really excited to work with me.

David Cameron

Jose is a true goal scorer that will help improve our offense tremendously. We are very excited about having Jose join our program this year. We know he can work in our system and have great success.

Chuck Fehr

Josh just kept them off-balanced. We're very excited about his pitching performance tonight.

Jim Haslett

I think it is a great opportunity for Todd. I think the team will rally around him and give him the support. He's excited about the opportunity.

Acie Law

I think I rushed them. I got so excited because I wasn't expecting to be wide open.

Jerry Simonson

It all worked out. We're just as excited as we can be.

Tom Donahoe

It always is. People get excited when you win and too upset when you lose. There's never any middle ground.

Walt Harris

He did a really nice job. We're really excited about his future.

Graciela Daniele

Knowing what goes on in a Latin family at mealtimes, ... I wanted to reflect the madness and the warmth and the fun of a Latin family. So, we made this new song.

Stephen Graham

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

Laura Kidder

I wouldn't recommend the place for a family vacation just yet.

Lapo Elkann

I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.

Dionne Bromfield

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

Ari Fleischer

Kennebunkport has a very strong sense of family for him.

Stephen McDowell

Just to see my family come from Indiana. I had my grandparents. I had people there, family from Indiana come all the way down there just to support me. That meant a lot to me.

Elisa Shackelton

(Kansas) is really a great state, and the people there are very friendly, and there is an incredible sense of community. But, I grew up at the foot of Pike's Peak and I really missed the mountains. My family is all here. This is where I play, live and work.

Corey Simon

Just really being able to sit down with him and pray with him about what was going on in my family and in my life really put things in perspective in terms of where he puts this game and life in general.

Adam Brody

I was like Nemo, Ryan. I found my way HOME.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Adam Barrett

Katie's done that all year for us. She stepped up and found a way to get to the hoop.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Maelle Ricker

I talked to him yesterday and found out what happened. Hopefully I've got a game plan to not have that happen to me.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Randy Monroe

He can score, and he found ways to score tonight.

Antwan Peek

He just made plays. He has led them to 14 straight wins (now 15), so he found openings. We're going to have to go in, watch film and find out (what went wrong).

Barclay Radebaugh

He just has a lot of poise with the ball. He found open people, and he's very tough to keep in front of you. I like the way he plays.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Sean Maguire

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Sue Hershey

We talked a lot about how that region grew and how students were recruited. We need to be ready to train a workforce for these jobs.

Mirek Porosa

When he settled down, his volleyball level just grew tremendously.

Ndamukong Suh

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Barclay Tagg

He kept going lame. He was going through growing pains, I guess.

Jessica Sanders

He really wants to sit down and work with us, ... I think that's so important because we are growing so much.

Danny Clark

He's a smart guy. He's getting better every time he lines up. But he's still got some growing to do, and hopefully we can stunt some of his growth this week.

John Deane

I think it's a question of institutional pride of this body. There has been a growing tendency to let the president do what he wants.

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Bobby Schindler

I think you're seeing the growing support of the pro-life movement.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term. Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Matt Kelley

I was learning a ton and getting paid well, but I was not doing what I was most passionate about.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Michael Wright

Jake has another year. He will learn how to wrestle. To be in the mix with better guys, we need to wrestle them.

Brandon Jacobs

I would want to learn from no one else but him.

Brandon McCarthy

Just to see what he thought, but I understand that things could change. I'm trying to learn a new role right now, so that's my focus.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Patrick Jones

I actually learned a lot. I learned about the recruiting process and what it can do for you.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Sugata Mitra

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Patrick Jones

I actually learned a lot. I learned about the recruiting process and what it can do for you.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Ted Cruz

Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.

Jon Kitna

He's a big part of our plan in those situations, ... He's someone who has learned what defenses are trying to do.

Brian Sabean

He's 32-years old and has learned a lot from his experience,

Malcolm Deans

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Kim Gandy

We told him what he needed to hear. And I think our messages were received. The vice president shared some of his ideas, listened to ours and offered to have an ongoing dialogue.

Giulio Tremonti

I listened to them and I can now say that I have no objections.

Genderen Stort

Nothing that we proposed was being listened to. The demonstrators on the square wanted something impossible.

John Corbett

It's pretty much all I've listened to since then.

Jean Todt

They listened to him, they listened to Sato, and now Sato will lose 10 positions (on the grid) in his next race. But Michael is going to start (qualifying) third in Brazil, which is no good.

Scott Savin

I walked around and listened to what people said they wanted.

Eddie Trunk

I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.

Rick Carrillo

They didn't listen. If they would've listened to me in the corner, they would've won.

Kurt Opsahl

They have listened to us but there's a lot of resistance.

Walter Pater

He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Reid Scott

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

Richard Gere

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Rivers Cuomo

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Tori Amos

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

Tori Amos

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

Wayne Elliott

He didn't have a lot, but he loved life. He was my only son.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Gary Richardson

It is horrible. But he was doing what he loved to do and I have to remember that.

Jason Aldean

I went and took it to the label, and they loved it, so we put it on the record.

Phil Harper

He was just a super guy. If you met him once, you loved him.

Caroline Campbell

He was so kind...everybody loved him...everybody in Trumann loved Junior.

Isiah Thomas

He was like the Pope. He was just a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful man. ... We just loved 'Coach.' He's meant so much to all of us, even the people who didn't play for him.

Lizette Hernandez

I didn't want him to ride, but oh, my God, he loved them.

Rachel Remen

I did this because the person I loved wanted it.

Jim Cleamons

With Michael and Scottie, we didn't let you get into your offense. They took away your first and second options.

Geoff Petrie

He was probably the most popular player in the NBA other than Michael Jordan,

Jeff Overton

I don't even know what to think yet. Michael Putnam and I waited all summer to turn pro to play in this. Man, it was worth it.

John C. Reilly

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

Robby Gordon

I'm not worried about the penalties. Michael wrecked me plain and simple.

Charlie Daniels

If somebody says, "He sounds just like Michael Jackson," well there's already a Michael Jackson. You don't want to sound like Michael Jackson; you want to sound like yourself. The only way you're ever going to get anywhere, and stay there, is by being your own self.

Charice Pempengco

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

Mike Easley

I'll tell you Michael Dell, you picked up the morale in this region by 110 percent,

The Children

I know it's the first time I've ever shared one with Michael Domino.

Mark Clarke

It was only $3.99 for 18-packs of Miller Lite so I'll save some money that way,

Jeff Krull

We were trying to get other Herman Miller dealers to bid.

Brian Oxman

Bradley Miller is a very special patient of yours, isn't he, Dr. Katz?

Kent Mueller

Miller is really a nice quarterback. He really throws a nice ball. And he has some receivers who really went out and made some nice plays.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

Dan Reeves

He wants to be called Mike, I'm really pleased with Mike.

Grace Gealey

I'm really easy to please and not high-maintenance at all. I like that chill, not stressed-out kind of lifestyle.

Barbara Jones

He said he's going to be pissed if you all come. Please don't come.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Shane Patrick

We're pleased to be going to nationals. I'm quite proud of the way our team ran.

Mo Johnston

We're pleased but disappointed. We can get better.

Tom Hymes

We're pleased about the ruling, but it's a complicated ruling and we need to take more time to go through it.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Mike Marqusee

He was quite serious about his own music. He let it speak for itself.

Vernell Crittendon

He was quite relieved to find that he was not going to be executed. He smiled, he nodded, he thanked me.

Rory McCann

I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.

Susan Jackson

We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Rob Brown

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

Richard Dawkins

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Rick Riordan

It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Reinhold Messner

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Will Eisner

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

King Tuff

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

Rod Laver

Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind,

William Butler Yeats

I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.

Terry Southern

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

Bill Maher

To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like.

Bjorn Borg

Roger Federer is stylish.

Roger Corman

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

Neil Innes

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

Barry McGuire

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

Sparky Anderson

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

Thomas Campbell

Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

Jerry Nelson

I not only worked with him, I sang a song with him.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Bruce Johnston

You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.

Christopher Lee

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

Carrie Underwood

I thought about deviating from that and singing other things, but then I thought, 'Well, if I don't win ... this is what I want to do after the show, so it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.'

Joni Mitchell

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Trey Songz

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Sara Bareilles

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

Rebecca De Mornay

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

Robert Wyatt

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Robert Plant

I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

William Hung

I am not the worst singer.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Robert Glasper

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

Sade Adu

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.

Shakira

In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.

Sophie Swetchine

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Bob Parker

He's always had illnesses. You will never get him here because somebody is always sick.

Char Quinn

I think we had somebody to walk every dog.

Gary Gilmore

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

Kelly Price

A lot of times you'll have somebody who could be the most talented person in the world, but because they are plus-sized, they're not even considered for a call back.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Jim McMahon

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

John LeClair

He's going to be a superstar in this league.

Yeng Guiao

There are no ready-made superstars in this team.

Trudi Canavan

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

William S. Burroughs

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.