Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron McGruder

Ultimately I think everyone draws their own line of what's shocking and what is inappropriate in different places. For you, some 10-year-old kids talking about hoes may not (be) that big of a deal. But someone out there is gonna flip. There's no way to know. So I just try to deliver an amusing and decent story and leave the shock and the awe to whatever people have in their own heads.

Mark Rowen

We believe we're moving ever closer to the light at the end of the valuation tunnel on eBay. We find it interesting and amusing to note that as investors' risk/reward ratio had dramatically improved, the market has become increasingly jittery about the future prospects for eBay.

Robert Thompson

And the most amusing thing is when they would start behaving as if this were the Super Bowl.

Jeffrey Brown

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

James Laver

The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time.

James Laver

The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, OutrT (daring) 1 year before its time, Smart, Dowdy 1 year after its time, Hideous 20 years after its time, Ridiculous 20 years after its time, Amusing 30 years after its time, Quaint 50 years after its time, Charming 70 years after its time, Romantic 100 years after its time, Beautiful 150 years after its time.

Richard Wilkinson

Flower Mound took their amusing dog and pony show on the road to outlying communities last night, ... The dog got shot and they were barbequing the pony as I left.

David Elliott

fell for Peter Lorre on screen when he made suave simpering so amusing in 'The Maltese Falcon.'

Gary Stern

What I find very amusing is they're still using machines that have not been proven in any court of law. That they are actually reliable in measuring speed.

Shakira

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

Tim Jackson

I think you put the combination of those three elements together and you've got a real premiere festival,

Tom O'Neil

It has all the elements that the Globe voters like. It has an important social message. It has A-list stars. It's part of the public debate.

Tupac Shakur

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

Donald Tsang

I suggest we work on all these elements and reach the final destination of universal suffrage as quickly as possible.

Christopher Hill

The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document.

Leslie Manigat

I'm not saying that Preval himself is involved, but there are elements around him, and in this country, that resort to violence in situations like these. I want to think we can have a peaceful contest, but I fear the worst.

Olivia Cooke

When I was filming Ouija, there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.

Garrett Lucash

It's hard to put words into what we're feeling right now. . . . For some reason, we had to fight through all our elements in a negative way.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Randy Monroe

He can score, and he found ways to score tonight.

Joanne Rowling

>in Divintation< Lavender: >squealing< Oooo! Professor look! I found an unknown planet! Professor Trelawny: That is Uranus my dear. Ron: Can I have a look at Ur anus too Lavender?

Mohamed ElBaradei

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Kathryn Minshew

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

Roz Foster

What we found was more than what we anticipated.

Aaron Patzer

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

Jeff Krull

Inevitably in the project we find something we didn't anticipate.

David Roux

They're inevitably responding to a decades-long march of technology into this marketplace.

Paul J. Meyer

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Clark Ervin

There's understandable pressure to get money out quickly. But there inevitably will be waste and fraud.

John Barton

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

Michael Silver

If I rely on the user to remove metadata, a lot of that metadata is inevitably going to get through. It really needs to be automated.

Victor Shum

Because the surge in prices last week was so strong, inevitably there is profit-taking.

Jim Rash

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

Constance Marie

After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.

Anton LaVey

The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

Russell Crowe

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

Richard Gere

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

Winona Ryder

I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.

Yoko Ono

Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.

Mila Kunis

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

John Buchanan Robinson

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

Cynthia Heimel

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.

Elle Macpherson

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Robbie Bach

Historically, there's been one price point and one configuration. You got it whether you wanted it or not,

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Roy Wright

I think we?re getting to a point of equilibrium. I think we?re getting back to the norm.

Tania Zaetta

I think at any point you go it's disappointing because everyone would like to make it all the way through,

LeBron James

It got to a point where it was kind of mental. I've got to regroup.

Scott Ashley

I want to win. If I have to score 50 points to win, I'll do that.

William Styron

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

Jonathan Swift

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Mark Lisanti

It's satire it's my own twisted sense of humor, The Wizard of Oz.

P. J. O'Rourke

Satire doesn't effect change.

Karl Kraus

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

G. H. Hardy

There's a lot of satire in Mardi Gras. We also take shots at ourselves. We may be down but we're not out.

Carroll O'Connor

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Angela Carter

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Gore Vidal

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.