Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Waters

We have to make money or they're never going to give it to us. Christine understands that. Let's be realistic here. We don't have a grant anymore. We have a budget. And she really wants and believes and thinks of a way for these weirdo movies to make money.

Eric Fehrnstrom

The governor understands this is a complex case and he believes the panel should take the time necessary to do a complete and thorough job.

Daniel Lipman

The response we've gotten and continue to get from certain elements of the gay community is just startling to me.

Paul Doyle

What did he run, about 30 meters in the first round and 40 or 50 in the second? You'll see a lot more out of him, he's really looking like he's going to do something impressive ... he's certainly looking like he's in sub-10 form.

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Jennifer Ko

We are in the process of deciding whether we should send them one check, or donate the money to a certain cause. We have looked into some things that were missing, things that were destroyed.

Stephen Covey

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Sue Kidd

She was very important in helping me form a certain sensibility about writing fiction. I read her 13 short stories over and over and over again. I studied them and I loved them.

Chris Landsea

One thing is fairly certain -- it's going to be a major hurricane.

Ryan Ford

Certainly it was big win and we're disappointed that we didn't get two. But going into this weekend, we're still in this thing.

Lynn Marmer

Certainly, having a dividend exposes you to certain sectors of the investment market that without it you are not exposed to.

Ricky Jay

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Tiger Woods

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

Steven Wright

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Reggie Jackson

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

Tom T. Hall

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Tom Brokaw

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

Tom Brady

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'

S. I. Hayakawa

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Dorothy Kelly

That is the quickest way to reach everyone. We need to get enough people together, but this is very preliminary. We must take small steps to get to a big step. This will not happen quickly.

Tommy Tuberville

It will probably never happen again. It will be my luck.

Jefferson Han

A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe.

Doug Duncan

The question in New Orleans is what will happen to the economy. The key to housing is jobs.

Celso Senise

We have all the ingredients for higher trepidation than normal. What will happen is hard to tell.

Engin Atsur

We can't let that happen on our home court. We were having a special season.

Alex Tanguay

We just didn't want to see the same thing happen as we did last week. This was an important win for us and this is a very important home stretch for us.

Richard G. Scott

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Author unknown

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

Daniel Barenboim

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Cynthia Heimel

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.

Ann Landers

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Abraham Lincoln

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Henry Ian Cusick

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

Alberto Moravia

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

David Christian

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Alice Hoffman

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Andy Partridge

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

Cillian Murphy

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

Alfie Allen

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Alfie Kohn

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

Alfie Kohn

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

Alfie Kohn

The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

Alfie Kohn

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.