Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valerie June

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

Abraham Lincoln

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Brandon Flowers

I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it.

Nayvadius Cash

The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.

Patrick Quinn

We're really not trying to make it miserable for people. But it's burning electricity. Our quick estimate is that it's costing us $100,000 per year.

Randy Williams

We're really looking for the cooperation of the public that's what makes this work. Hopefully they can hold off on burning until the conditions change a little bit.

Paul O'Grady

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.

Sydney Smith

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble

Geno Auriemma

(Mel) has an intensity level about her that keeps the fire burning inside, she never lets the fire die. Nicole's the same way. We had two guys guarding that kid that don't get tired. She could have run them off screens all night and those kids aren't going to get tired.

Scott Reed

The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it.

Cecelia Ahern

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Carrie Fisher

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Carrie Fisher

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

Carrie Fisher

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

Aaron Gray

That was a tough game. We played real hard. The shots just weren't falling tonight. It just wasn't our night.

Todd MacCulloch

That would have been nice. But the guy is falling down. I think Pat might have thought he couldn't even get the shot off. You don't want to foul. I thought that time was going to run out sooner.

Raquel Welch

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

Tom Browning

That was a special group. They left footprints. We want to follow them and feed off them.

Jimmy Williams

That was the only way we could feed those people because all the stores were down. We were just scrapping together, making it happen.

Shannon Stewart

That will be nice to play with him. Hopefully, I can feed off of him, and he can feed off of me.

Richard Dean Anderson

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.

Carl DeFebo

We've gotten very, very positive feedback on this facility.

Rich Smith

We've gotten such nice feedback about the festival - some of it from professional playwrights, talking about how well respected it is.

Clifford Galey

We're working on trying to get meals in here to feed our people.

Michael Parmly

Virtually ... 95 to 98 percent of the money that comes into the island is going to end up in the hands of the state. That ... means that money is going to feed a totalitarian state.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.