Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deirdre O'Kane

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Andrew Davies

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Sylvester Stallone

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

John Millington Synge

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

LeRoy Neiman

You can't take yourself too seriously.

Ken Livingstone

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

Michelle Gomez

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Diana Wynne Jones

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Stuart Backerman

There is no merit to the allegations, Michael is innocent. This is in keeping with what we've said all along.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Bob McNair

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

Susie Gardner

We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.

Dusty Baker

It seems like we have trouble keeping them in the ballpark. If we could keep them in the ballpark, it'd be different.

John Jones

A lot of people are in harm's way right now. Your product is keeping them safe.

Don Briggs

They have a lot of speed. We had trouble keeping up with them.

Beth Moore

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

Kevin Knox

We're going to see 4.6GB be a minimum for around six months or so. Then we'll move quickly to 6.4GB.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Chris Kilham

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.

Mike Tice

Randy strained his right hamstring. I saw him today; he's been in for treatment twice. We'll see. He could be up in some sort of a role, minimal role, or we can rest him.

Gerhard Schr

During Merkel's years as Minister for Women, I was having a really tough time as a single parent mother,

Kevin Taft

One day the minister is saying something, the next day the premier is contradicting her,

Alberto Romulo

These are the years that the locusts have eaten, ... It will take a minimum of two years for us to get back on our feet.

Laura Bush

You're probably wondering what the prime minister is sharing with me. We're talking mountain biking.

Eric Hinske

It really hurt. He nearly took my nipple off.

Olivier Gasnier

This is a very strong report on nearly all fronts.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

David Williams

The science is nearly there, but we have to find a reliable way of doing it.

Tony Campolo

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

John Spillman

Between the three properties, we have nearly 1,400 rooms and suites.

Robert Kiyosaki

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

John Wiley

This was a quality win for us. We are not patient or disciplined nearly as much as we should be, and I think we saw the right way to do some of those things tonight.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.

Robert Bloch

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Ian Bogost

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

A. J. Liebling

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Jacque Fresco

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

Rebecca Hall

No family is sane, is it?

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.

Max Winkler

It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

Pete Kendall

It seems like a long time since we've done anything.

Melanie Troxel

It seems like we can do no wrong. I'm as surprised as anybody. I don't want to wake up from this.

Larry Coker

It seems like three years to the players.

Steve Blake

As we put them in outlying areas, contamination has been more of a problem. We are still experimenting with different situations and locations.

Sherry Llewellyn

These situations are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Kyle Orton

I've been in some high-pressure situations already in my career, ... I think I kind of thrive on that. I like that situation. The more that you're in them, the better you get.

David Cutcliffe

You never know in these tough situations whether you are doing the right thing or not.

Levance Fields

We've been in situations like the one we had (Sunday). Down the stretch, they made more plays.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

David Lynch

I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

Ann Plato

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

Suzy Buchholtz

There's always somebody to help. I don't do math.

Frank Pasquarello

It was a strange turn of events. It could have been somebody else doing it for him.

Samantha Fox

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

Priscilla Presley

I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.

Pete Rose

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

Adam Mansbach

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

Melissa Doi

Are they going to be able to get somebody up here?

David Eger

Somebody will walk out of here very pleased.

Dave Flurie

Somebody was always there for me. If we don't do it, who's going to do to for the kids?

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Johnnie Hayes

It was still standing and a tree was on it, but it was flooded. Everything we had in there was ruined, our TV and all our furniture.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Gene Autry

things that give you standing in the community.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Joe Brennan

We did a lot of standing around for two quarters.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Gary Latham

This is an active, not a passive, RFID system. It tells workers what to do with the vehicles and when.

Barbara Corcoran

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

Luis Suarez

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Melinda Shiraki

We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.

Elmer Jackson

Doris tells the story better than I do, right? Go ahead, please.

Richard Carmona

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Joanna Lumley

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

Jon Phillips

I was not trying to be nosy or anything, but perspiration just tells you something.

Justin Upton

He always tells me that, ... And I always tell him the same.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.