Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. Somerset Maugham

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Nathan Fillion

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

Pearl S. Buck

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

Ashwin Sanghi

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Albert Einstein

Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

Donald E. Westlake

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

Clarence Darrow

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

Alice Sebold

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

Kevin Rogers

Last year, I think it was the icing on the cake just to get to NTN. This year the expectations are higher.

Richard Paul Evans

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!

Ray Brown

I had to have two cakes because I had so many candles. That really hit hard.

Oscar Wilde

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Shel Silverstein

A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

Tao Lin

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

Lars von Trier

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

Langston Hughes

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

Sarah Kay

One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your action expresses your priorities.

Oswald Chambers

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God ...

Olivia Wilde

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

Arlen Specter

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

Peter Lynch

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

Leland Ryken

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

Karen Mills

President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.