Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

Jay London

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

Tim Robbins

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

Jimmy Durante

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.

Jay London

I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else.

Mike Epps

With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.

Kathy Griffin

The fact that that really is my life, and that my husband Matt - who you see on the show - is like the most normal guy in the world.

Harpo Marx

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

Steven Wright

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

Mike Fratello

That's who Bobby is. That's his style of play. He's a high-energy guy. He can be instant offense. He can cause havoc on the defensive end. ... It's like a personality trait. Everybody doesn't have that. But he does.

Rob Schremp

What we need to do is hit Bobby Ryan a little more. He's a tough guy and he's trying to get through the neutral zone a little too easily. Maybe we need a good open-ice hit or a few more hits to slow him down. We do that, maybe we do a better job of shutting him down.

John McGrath

We heard Bob Dylan singing up on the hill.

Folks still remember the day ole Bob Riley came bouncing down that dirt road in his pickup. Pretty soon, it was bouncing higher and higher. The tires popped, and the shocks broke, but that truck kept bouncing. Some say it bounced clean over the moon, but whoever says that is a goddamn liar.

Helen Chandler

Bob was terrified of dancing. He thought it was for sissies.

Walt Jocketty

Bob likes the way we've done things in St. Louis. I told him I've worked with Mo for nine or 10 years, and he's been a big part of the operation.

Tom Meeker

Bob Lewis was a treasured member of the Kentucky Derby family and a friend to everyone in Thoroughbred racing.

Michael Mando

'Better Call Saul' happens in the same universe as 'Breaking Bad,' and we have the same writers and mostly the same crew. Like 'Breaking Bad,' it is a transformation story, and Bob Odenkirk brings his own distinctive flavour.

Peter Maher

Bob Johnson tried everything to get him to play with consistency. The trick was to try something different to keep him interested. One time, Nilsson even was sharpening his own skates and it worked for a while,

Michael Otto

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Ken McBride

We ran a first market test in 2004, and we estimated that a third of the total images -- a third of the total sheets we printed -- were in fact corporate logos.

Roger Read

Generally where you find the top guys, you find the corporate offices relocating.

John Hall

Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

Donald Selkin

Markets are going to drift in this range ... until corporate profits and GDP (gross domestic product) start to improve.

George Carlo

If I was a CIO or corporate IT manager, I would make sure my employees used them safely; they should all have a headset,

Ken Georgetti

How much more evidence does the government need that across-the-board corporate tax-cuts are a drag on the economy?

Debora Spar

If corporate profits do go down, it's highly likely that we could see the U.S. tumble into a recession.

Winson Fong

The economy is picking up and corporate profitability has recovered.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Tana French

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Michael Cunningham

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Irving Stone

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

John Buchanan Robinson

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Epictetus

You lose only the things you have

Karan Johar

It's a look at modern marriages, the reasons why people get married.

Kate Adie

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Benjamin Franklin

A modern Wit is one of David's Fools.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.