Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Iain Duncan Smith

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Irwin Thomas

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Gallagher

I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Henry Bragg

Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Tyra Banks

As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded.

Irwin Thomas

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

William Allen Butler

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

Virginia Postrel

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

Amisha Patel

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Christo

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Wole Soyinka

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

Nancy Friday

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

F. Sionil Jose

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Constance Wu

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

Faye Carnes

I have a gentlemen friend who encourages me to play golf too he plays as well. He's just a little older than I, but he's an inspiration to me.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.

Jim Spearman

If it encourages military people to vote, that is great.

Ian Gold

Just the simple fact that he still goes out there and encourages me and Al, it tells me a lot.

Eric Warner

I think it's a really fun idea. It encourages a youthful spirit. I haven't had any entries yet, but it may be a day-of thing. . . . I really hope that you enter.

Karen Hughes

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

Fred Savage

That actually encourages us to feel that we are on the right track, that we are doing something different, so it's encouraging when they laugh at the wrong places, or don't laugh at all sometimes.

Glenn Crooks

Last year I don't think she was as mobile or as strong as she is now. It took her a part of last season to improve. We are fortunate to have her in the program because she knows what it takes to win and encourages her teammates to do the same.

Darell Hammond

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

Pico Iyer

Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.

Mark McKinnon

Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.

Shannon McSweeney

Midweek is always quiet, and in the pouring rain there wasn't too many people out. On any rainy day there's going to be fewer people doing any outdoor activity.

Paul Fronstin

We are in the midst of a weak economy. That means fewer jobs and fewer people with coverage.

Josh Bernoff

It doesn't matter how friendly you are if the end result is people watching fewer commercials,

Lynn Reaser

We are seeing on one side fewer layoffs, and on the other side we are seeing a pickup in hiring.

Charles Steinberg

My understanding is Carroll worked fewer than 1,000 hours and got a watch. There is a security staff of several hundred who are not full-time.

Jason Falkner

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

Jeffrey Schneider

We have not been served with a lawsuit and don't have any comment.

Rig Veda

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Anacharsis Anacharsis

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

E. Hicks

You all are going to have to lower that camera.

Warren Shouldice

Personally, it's devastating. The scores were a lot lower than I expected. It was mine for the taking up there. If I had stuck my second jump, I could be up there on the podium.

Christopher Mecray

My sense is that the stock is going to stabilize here. You get much lower than this and it starts to get to be real overreaction.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Allan Hale

We're visualizing spreading it around a little bit,

Angela Ross

We're all spread out now. We just come here - it's just like she was Big Mama.

Steve McClain

Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.

Georg Petersen

It confirms what we have thought for a while, that the H5N1 virus is widely spread in Indonesia.

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Jane Goodall

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

Daniel H. Wilson

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Chuck Palahniuk

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

Donald Trump

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Donald Trump

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Donald Trump

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Beth Walters

We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.