Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a ""crowned head,"" although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester:""If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester.""""The reason, Sire, that you would thrive,"" The fool said --""if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit."" --Oogum Bem

Paula Mitchell

Knowing that my mother's alive and how she fought her way out, that's helped me a lot, ... We've heard so much bad news all week, we needed some good news.

Bill Clinton

John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.

Mike Hanson

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

M. Wolfe

GW is out, so it's anybody's. That's what we want. We're trying to stay alive and get an NCAA bid.

Mike Williamson

He's keeping us alive for stretches of games when we're not playing our best.

Dan Daniel

There is more of a diverse group in The Gulch than anywhere else in Nashville. It's an interesting, alive community and ICON is the first of many changes down there.

Ben Woodside

He had dreamed of playing there his whole life. He told me right after the game he was the happiest man alive right now.

James Hall

Had they not released the fish alive ? and I think releasing it is the right thing to do ? I think they might have made quite a bit of money.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Steve Earle

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Annelise Hoffman

I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Jennifer Johnson

I don't have time to spend hours looking for just the right things at a mall. I think I've been to a mall three times in the past year.

Sandra Cisneros

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

Jon Bon Jovi

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

Dr. Alejos

They are very hungry to learn. They want to do cutting-edge things.

Rachel Nichols

I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

Lil Wayne

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.

Ron Allice

The men have been pretty patient, because they weren't in the indoor competitions (like the women's team). They were hungry to show where they stand.

Christopher Burge

The market is hungry for spectacular impressionist works as the smashing results for paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne and Monet indicate.

Joe Mullen

They're a team that is looking to win some games. They've got to be hungry (in their situation).

Jim Neal

They're hungry for information. As an industry, and as a specific carrier, I need to give my shippers that information, too.

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.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Richard P. Feynman

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

Robert Plant

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

Rohit Shetty

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Wietse Venema

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Warren Farrell

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

Lee Watkins

They'd been there for six generations and it was all gone.

Kim Harrison

Good God,” I whispered, sitting on the van’s cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy—not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn’t-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly grossed out, I took a peek at my armpit, jerking away. Oh, that’s just…nasty.

Lindsay Pearce

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

Silas Weir Mitchell

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

Ike Taylor

I watched TV for two days, and then after that I just couldn't watch any more.

Walter Annenberg

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

Wendy Williams

I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.

Zoe Saldana

I never really watched the TV series.

Jamie Blackley

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

Henry Rollins

I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."

Laura Carmichael

I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

John Cheever

Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Chris Remley

When he was selected, I wasn't surprised. I'm going to watch it.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Rob Corddry

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Richard Dawkins

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond

Sarah Palin

The news makes me sad, so I don't watch it.

Tracy Morgan

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.