Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Perry Barlow

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

Tyler Cowen

Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.

Gerald Celente

Los Estados Unidos has turned into a banana republic, a fascist banana republic.

Eric Rasmussen

I don't need to eat bananas every day.

Sarah Dessen

I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.

Nicki Minaj

Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

Gena Pharis

When I get all the bananas and oranges, I'll let you know.

Parker Young

I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.

Dikembe Mutombo

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.' The banana in Congo is called 'Dikembe.' So my uncle start calling me, 'Dikembe, Dikembe, look at you Dikembe, you cannot even stand up.' It took a long time for me to walk.

Mike Holmes

He may not have broken any law, but it seems to me there are some serious questions.

Will Estes

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Ryan Reynolds

I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.

William Butler Yeats

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Yogi Berra

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

Rick Warren

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

Wendell Berry

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

Yann Martel

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.

Tony Skinn

I think it's been working for us, calling us Cinderella. We were not supposed to get into the tournament.

Dwayne Casey

I was calling out their call and our call at the same time, just to get them acclimated.

Kim Young-ha

When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.

Sarah Baker

I don't go around calling myself a fat girl. It doesn't feel fun to me.

Jeremy Cox

I credit the officials. They did a really good job of calling fouls in the post and cleaning it up right away down there. Obviously, whenever you go to a zone, it limits inside play and dares them to shoot outside.

Cowboy Troy

Had it not been for Big and Rich calling me and wanting me to come out there, I'd still be in Texas, probably still working at the shoe store I was working in.

Abdullah A. Badawi

As far as we are concerned, he has committed a serious offense and we cannot hand him over to others to be extradited,

Jalal Rumi

A shadow cannot ignorethe sun that all day creates and movesit.

Jessye Norman

As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.

Rig Veda

A scholar cannot sit with an ignorant person and expect to gain by the meeting.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.

Lord Chesterfield

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones

Gloria Bergquist

Automakers need a consistent national policy for fuel economy, and national fuel economy standards cannot be written by any single state or group of states.

Kofi Annan

a unique evil, which cannot simply be consigned to the past or forgotten.

Alex Morrison

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

Louis Michel

The peace process in the Congo is my priority,

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term, ... Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Ryan Lochte

I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.

Richard M. Nixon

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Richard Rohr

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Robert Smith

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Virginia Woolf

Why must they grow up and lose it all?

Wayne Pacelle

I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

William Lewis

Just tell my wife and kid I love them.

Jim Whitesell

I think it's a Catch-22. You're always going to run into one kid who says, 'I want to go to Ames, Iowa, or Cedar Falls.' Then there some who want to stay home. You have to find the right one.

City High

He didn't have to run. A lot of kids wouldn't have,

Steve Collins

He just plays the game. You've got to love kids like that.

Thurston Moore

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Dr. Seuss

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

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Stephen King

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Daina Parent

We've been working all year toward this. This is the time we're going to go out and show them what we're made of.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Anthony Davis

It has to be like Hawaii. We went in there and it was about basketball, and we took them one at a time.

Kimberly Smith

It took a long time, in part because it was a donation.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Karlyn Supple

It took a little wind out of our sails.

Gina Jones

They just don't know what they took away from me.

Brett Nelson

It was like our other matches. He took fifth, so he did pretty good.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

Tom Rooney

My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school.

Tom Petty

When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

Rick Riordan

My dear children!" Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack. "Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye. "Nellie!" Amy said. "Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.

Rick Riordan

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Renata Adler

My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

Roger Miller

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

Roger Rosenblatt

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.