Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Reggie Hayward

They were in great position to kick the field goal and win the game, ... For a second there, I thought about scooping it and trying to score, but my common sense kicked in. It was like, 'Get the ball. Live another down.'

Michael Geist

This has been a common trend for years as file sharers move between services.

Tom Schlesinger

It's more difficult for a governor to have anything resembling a common touch if their personal finances are in a different solar system.

Wilford Kale

It's more common than you'd think, unfortunately. In the waters of Hampton Roads, we probably lose six to eight people a year.

Stan Gehrt

It's very common to see them sitting by a roadside watching traffic go by. It's speculation, but we think they're taking notes mentally, looking for gaps and when they occur. And they probably teach it to their pups.

Stephen Tenby

It's very common in the first year of life, even in the first three or four years of life. It's more serious in the first year of life because small infants can get dehydrated very fast.

Bill Curry

It's very common in the bookselling industry to reference the Times list.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Irvine Welsh

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

J. R. R. Tolkien

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

Iwan Rheon

There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

Paul Davis

Keep writing that stuff ? I'll keep getting 27 points.

Allard Baird

We think he has the stuff to be a starter.

Jimmy Johnson

I just kind of used up my stuff there at the end.

Kathy Sierra

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

Henry Cavill

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

Amanda Butler

These have stuff to keep you going for three days.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Bernie Sanders

What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.

Donna Tartt

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.

Donald Evans

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

Donald Johanson

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.