Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Ani Difranco

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

Dodie Smith

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.

Dodie Smith

He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.

Dinah Shore

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Dinesh D'Souza

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Busy Philipps

Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.

Alain de Botton

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Miley Cyrus

I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

Desmond Dekker

You can get it if you really want

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Bruce Boxleitner

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

Britney Spears

I'm not a diva. I know what I like and I know what I want.

Eleanor Smeal

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Kevin Hart

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.