Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Otis Blackwell

I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.

Jerry Harrison

I think that the increased bandwith will make music and movie clips a lot more satisfying; but it won't sort out boring ideas or songs.

Adrian Belew

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Jimmy Chamberlin

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

Tori Rosenthal

Just seeing how some of those people lived and how little they had and how happy they are. It put in perspective what's important in life.

Frances Rodman

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Jeff Hawkins

I swear my heart stopped. I was so happy when he was able to come back.

Jenny Taylor

Greer is just scrappy. They get after it. They may be small, but they play big. My kids play big, too, and I'm happy with the way they played and the way they've played all season.

Phil Savage

Happy New Year. I've really got nothing to say.

John Keats

Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; / Enough their simple loveliness for me.

William Shakespeare

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Go not, happy day,/ From the shining fields,/ Go not, happy day,/ Till the maiden yields.

Ray Elliott

He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird's jersey, ... We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be.

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Sarah Fielding

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Samuel Johnson

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

Samuel Johnson

The triumph of hope over experience.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Truman Capote

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Rhea Perlman

The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.

Will Durant

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

Robin Wasserman

I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?

Sarah Dessen

instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.

Zach Braff

Incognito mode? What do they have to hide? Zach Braff doesn't have anything to hide - Zach Braff lays it all out there for everybody to see. That is Zach Braff's secret to Zach Braff's success.

Wilferd Peterson

The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!

Voltaire

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

Adam Richman

You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.