Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Cormier

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Russell B. Long

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

Woody Guthrie

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

Woody Allen

As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

Sarah Silverman

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

Tucker Carlson

Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.

Nelly

I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.

R. Lee Ermey

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Evangeline Lilly

I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.

Bible Bible

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Michael Williams

He has big ears and he's real skinny. People like to pick on him. It was like that as long as I could remember.

Merv Adams

He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and they'll start that all over again.

Robert Walpole

I took the right sow by the ear.

William Christopher Handy

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

Rick Yancey

You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

Publilius Syrus

It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

Leonardo da Vinci

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.