Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Pym

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.

Ally Carter

Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

Mary Quant

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

Kim Kardashian

Maybe I'll just be a good aunt.

Madeleine L'Engle

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Lucy Maud Montgomery

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

Maggie Stiefvater

Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?" "God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough.

Carlos Mencia

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

Calvin Trillin

Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

Kimberly Harrison

My kitchen and dining room are completely gone.

Christina Yard

We hang out together a lot as a team. After practice or games we'll all eat together in the dining hall.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Boris Kodjoe

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

J. J. Johnson

This season our goal was to get better, and we did that. I hope we laid the foundation for the future.

Phil Gramm

Tonight we have laid the foundation to make history,

Tyler Wiand

Tonight, thankfully, I was on. My teammates found me when I was open and tonight, they were going in.

Asjha Jones

Tonight I really wanted to come out and be aggressive. And I found opportunities. Fortunately for me they were going in tonight, but not enough.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Cassie Schrock

We gave it a great run. We had a great ride for the seniors. This is going to motivate us so much to get back here next year.

Tomas Vokoun

We scored that goal. It's not like they gave it to us.

Bill Clinton

You gave me the ride of my life, and I've tried to give as good as I got.

Tim Hudson

Farnsworth has been nails for us all year, but he gave up the runs tonight. Without him, we wouldn't have gotten here. All the other guys stepped up too.

Jeff Golc

At this point, we are not interested in any of it. But that could change. It is a fast-paced world now. Remember Standard Foods? It was big in the 1960s, and now you can't find them.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Steve Swanson

We are interested in the volume ? we need the wood.

Jennifer Pizer

We are interested in serious, incremental work in order to succeed.

Giacinto Facchetti

We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,

Steve Langdon

He tried, and tried, but they weren't interested and weren't listening.

Dan Johnson

We're all interested in seeing what he can do.

John Stumpf

I couldn't care less about league tables. I'm more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.

Annika Sorenstam

I don't think that's something I would be interested in, but who knows? Well, I was only there for about two days, so it's tough for me to tell you really what I think.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Dan Rather

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

Maria Fernandez

She starts by making her own paper from pulp.

Martin Straka

I can't say it in the paper what I told him.

David Davies

If he took the papers in... that, I'm afraid, is a very unwise thing for him to do and I do think this is a resigning issue.

Mahatma Gandhi

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Daniel Radcliffe

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

Alexander McCall Smith

There is room in history for all of us.

Douglas Wilson

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

Daniel Day-Lewis

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Amy Sherman-Palladino

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

Anita Shreve

A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.

T. S. Eliot

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

Rashida Jones

There's room for everything in everybody.

Tim Gunn

When someone new walks into a room, the first thing we notice about that person is probably their gender. And the second things is what they're wearing. And based on what they're wearing, we start making certain assumptions about them.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.