Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zaha Hadid

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

Ezra Taft Benson

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

Neon Hitch

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.

Rebecca Ferguson

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

Patricia MacLachlan

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

Marc Morial

You are demonstrating here in Houston that you are willing to be your brothers and sisters' keepers in a time of need,

Jalal Talabani

You and your (Kurdish) brothers are the heroes of liberating Iraq,

Ryan Stiles

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Lee Evans

My brothers were staying at my house, so I hired them on to help me, ... You have to help people when you can.

Imelda May

I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.

Tom Vix

We just didn't handle the pressure well. They're quicker than we are. We didn't want to get in a game where we had to chase them.

Kim Pinkham

We just didn't come out and hit. She did a good job making us chase after pitches.

Nancy Norris

We'll put new Chase signs on all four sides of the building.

Christine King

We have the great opportunity to enjoy Idaho, ride in pickup trucks, ride horses and chase cows, and there's not a lot of places you can do that.

Carol Shultz

We've learned to handle about anything that goes with this country. You don't really know the country till you've chased cows through it.

Richard Scudamore

Mike has a duty to the game to tell us exactly what he knows and if there's been any wrongdoing going on we will chase it down - we will deal with it appropriately.

Camilo Villegas

We just went to feel and having fun. Every time I step on the putting surface I'm going to have fun and I'm just going to enjoy it. I'm going to look forward to every putt. Last week, I said I've had enough of mechanics. Let's go back to when I was a kid. I started thinking when I was 10, 11, 12, I would look at the hole, hit it and if it goes in, great. If it doesn't go, chase it and hit it back. So no more mechanics, just feel.

Craig Heinselman

You can actually take it to chase the interesting science.

Jane Seymour

A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look real anymore. If you freeze everything on your face, you can't emote.

Yo-Yo Ma

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Vivek Wadhwa

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Bill Hader

Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Vladimir Potanin

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Bill Bryson

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Lindsey Graham

The allegation is that when they told the grand jury about the process they made some misstatements and false allegations, ... Face the Nation.

Ellen Key

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Donald Trump

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

C. S. Lewis

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

C. S. Lewis

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

Carrie Brownstein

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

Carrie Underwood

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

Carl Reiner

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Carl Reiner

When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

Bill Vaughan

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.

Tia Mowry

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Thierry Henry

I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.

Imelda May

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Idina Menzel

I would love to work with Matt Damon.

Ian Mckellen

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Irwin Thomas

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

Indiana Evans

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

Gale Gordon

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Gaines Adams

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

C. S. Lewis

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Carl Rakosi

Friends are not made, but recognized.

Bill Burr

God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?

Eric Friedman

That was the end of snowboarding at Mad River Glen.

Jeff Horner

We just didn't make plays. I don't feel wore down. I'm just mad right now.

William Shakespeare

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.

Carlos Alberto

Who is Michael Owen anyway? What has he ever won in football? He plays for Real Madrid but he is always on the bench.

Don Wright

Man, I was mad as I don't know what,

Bede Griffiths

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Robert Schwartz

We're not surprised that he would try to muddy the waters.

Dennis Miller

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

Tom Petty

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

Andy Irons

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

Michael Hofmann

Rocks and gravel will come down sometimes. But this is the first time there's ever been a mud event.

Dick Cavett

Well, it saved her a lot of muddy shoes,

Edwina Currie

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

Brian Clough

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

Mike Lawrence

Marsh is more pleasant to look at than kind of a mud bank.

Ben Barnes

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

Richard Avedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

B. F. Skinner

We'll pick those off as we are able,

Bruno Cullen

We've got probably 11 forwards who can play NRL, and we're only going to pick eight.

Riley Wallace

We have to play our game. We'll pick our spots to run, but we can't run-and-gun. That's their style.

Paul Horn

Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.

Sarah Price

(My children) need to pick up the torch and keep on moving.

DeShaun Foster

You just pick one, ... and go at him.

Mads Mikkelsen

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

Jamie Brown

We're not going to show up and shove it off the truck.

Andi Anderson

But we know the three S's still happen: shoot, shovel and shut up.

Teresa Kerry

You said something I didn't say. Now shove it.

Peggy Noonan

could even shove Alberto Gonzales down their throats.

Khaled Hosseini

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

Kevin McCarthy

That was thrown on us, so we'll look at it and see which way we go about doing it.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Cliff Lee

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Pete Eliades

I thought if I did big increments, I'd throw him off. I just started him up, and he couldn't stop.

Mack Brown

Justin's really good. He's big and strong. And he can throw it all over the lot,

Gregg Brandon

We don't have Omar anymore. We know Omar can throw a lot of touchdown passes. We don't know that about our quarterbacks now.

Henry Beard

You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble powders, bubble gum.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Patti Smith

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.