Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tonight, when we were eating dinner, Marta said something that really knocked me for a loop. She said, ""I love carrots."" ""Good,"" I said as I gritted my teeth real hard. ""Then maybe you and carrots would like to go into the bedroom and have sex!"" They didn't, but maybe they will sometime, and I can watch.

I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.

Anne Kelley

The bedrock of all this is: Do an audit.

Cilla Black

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

Martin Evans

I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London.

William Diamond

We did a Sheraton-style bed all painted with flowers. I think it really works, and I think it's really beautiful.

Jefferson Mays

When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Allen Tate

And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.

Allen Iverson

Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.

Allan Gurganus

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

Alistair Cooke

For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.

Alison McGhee

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

Ann Brashares

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

Jeff Probst

I finally met someone who could teach me about love.

James Garner

I said, 'Well, I'll give myself five years to see if I can make a living at it.' And after five years I was 30 and I said, 'Yeah, I can go another five years on just the reputation I have now' and then I went another five, and another five, and another five, and finally -- at 50 years old -- I said 'You know, I think I have a career,'

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Ken Herock

Somebody will be getting a pretty good player.

Tom Stoppard

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.

Cliff Wilson

Somebody suggested it and it sounded like it would be a good place for them.

Jamie Dixon

Somebody's going to lose. Good teams are going to lose.

Martin O'Malley

Some people might look at Baltimore, from afar, and see nothing but hopelessness. I see, in Baltimore, tremendously good and compassionate people, and a tremendous opportunity to save a lot a lives.

John Cook

Some people may want to stay here permanently, ... If they don't have relatives anywhere, this may be a good place for them to stay.

Tre Kelley

Some people may go out and think, oh this isn't a good team, so they get lackadaisical. We know we have a good team, though. We have to keep the mindset this is a good team.

Paul Parker

Some departments use it quite heavily; others don't, ... The ones that utilize it think it's a very good program. The ones that don't utilize it think it's a program we might not should be involved in.

Tim Murtaugh

So we feel very good about where we are and that we will be able to have our message penetrate to the very end.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Andrew Mellon

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Dylan Walsh

I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.

Dylan Lauren

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

Dylan McDermott

You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

Doug Stanhope

I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000.

Dr. Dre

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

Dorothy Day

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

Oliver Thomas

Maybe it has to be primitive, but it still has to happen. It would be an international shame if it didn't.

Nick Punto

Maybe it got some attention. It could have motivated some guys.

Tom Izzo

Maybe I should resign or retire and then maybe we can get our record back where it belongs.

Andy Roddick

Maybe I should have stood on the mark,

Bobby Jones

Maybe I should have played to the side, so I saw the pick, because I didn't see it.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Larry Brown

Maybe I'm wrong, but if I look at the young guys, wouldn't you think they were kind of organized and had a feel for what was going on?

James Blake

Maybe I'm a slow learner. But he doesn't make it easy.

Kenji Johjima

Maybe I look tired to him, but I'm not tired.

Marilynne Robinson

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

Mary Tyler Moore

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

Pablo Casals

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

Laverne Cox

Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.

Laura Kightlinger

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

Laura Kightlinger

Always keep your anger bottled up. You might need a bottle of anger some day when friends come by and won't leave.

Laini Taylor

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

Lisa McMann

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.

John Sununu

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Michael Jackson

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.

Gloria Estefan

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

Frank Herbert

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

Frank Herbert

Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.

Frank Herbert

The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow.

George Hamilton

At MGM there was a script cage in the basement where they'd show rushes. And I thought to myself, "How do I get into the script cage and find out what my future is?"I climbed into the script cage one night and spent the whole night in there. I saw the bowels of MGM. I saw the studio scripts that the producers had seen; the writers had just handed them in. And I started thinking this is a chance to pick my own roles.

Guru Nanak

I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Ronald Reagan

The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Robert Jordan

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Robert Jordan

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.