Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Rekalin Sims

Randolph is quiet. He doesn't really show anything until he's out there on the court. I can almost guarantee Randolph is going to punish these guys.

Wayne Brown

Really and truly, almost all mistakes go back to basics. People need to have good, building-block learning behind them so they can become their own best critics and maintain good discipline about the fundamentals of flying.

David Farber

Realize that almost anybody can write a book, ... I even wrote a book.

Kenneth Fisher

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

Paul Polzin

Prices this high and lasting this long will almost certainly spur investment.

Stephen Malkmus

Primarily I was doing the music here alone in the house, anyway, with the drummer. He helped with the engineering and plays on almost every song.

Christine Link

Programs such as this almost always prove to be ineffective in gathering information on possible terrorists. Even though they are created with the best of intentions, they only serve to reinforce stereotypes and cause innocent people to be subjected to government scrutiny.

Art Buchwald

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

James Wolcott

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

Barry White

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

Baltasar Gracian

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Daniel Handler

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Brandon Boyd

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Brigitte Bardot

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Charles de Secondat

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Susan Jovanovic

The only way I could describe it -- the full effect -- is like having a death in the family. The entire family was ripped apart.

Anton Chekhov

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Coco Chanel

I have only one curiosity left: death.

Clark Gable

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Ricky Gervais

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

Wally Buono

A very tricky situation. Some of the salaries are at the point of being out of whack, really out of proportion.

Pat Robertson

a vote (on the Supreme Court) that reflects his point of view.

Wendy Murphy

At what point does it really matter. This is such a strong case. The statement to the police is going to kill him, and I don't know if you need much more than that.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Wayne Fischer

At some point in time you must ask, 'how much is enough?

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled. The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Halle Berry

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Jack Olsen

We're turning over every rock, so to speak.