Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Reggie Hayward

They were in great position to kick the field goal and win the game, ... For a second there, I thought about scooping it and trying to score, but my common sense kicked in. It was like, 'Get the ball. Live another down.'

Michael Geist

This has been a common trend for years as file sharers move between services.

Tom Schlesinger

It's more difficult for a governor to have anything resembling a common touch if their personal finances are in a different solar system.

Wilford Kale

It's more common than you'd think, unfortunately. In the waters of Hampton Roads, we probably lose six to eight people a year.

Stan Gehrt

It's very common to see them sitting by a roadside watching traffic go by. It's speculation, but we think they're taking notes mentally, looking for gaps and when they occur. And they probably teach it to their pups.

Stephen Tenby

It's very common in the first year of life, even in the first three or four years of life. It's more serious in the first year of life because small infants can get dehydrated very fast.

Bill Curry

It's very common in the bookselling industry to reference the Times list.

Jesse Jackson

He does not want to eat in fact on the table of those who would kill him,

Al Visconti

These kids could all grow up and be rich and eat lobster the rest of their lives. And nothing will taste better than those french fries.

Bill Clarke

You don't have to pack and unpack and pay a lot of money to stay in hotels or eat out, and you are surrounded by nature instead of a hot, sterile parking lot.

Steve Davies

You don't have to be a millionaire to eat like a millionaire, thanks to our new Buttered Lobster Bites. What better person to share that message than America's newest everyday-citizen-turned-millionaire?

Chris Kenny

It's not exactly what you want to eat before practice, but we figured we'd do that, then practice, then go back to the hotel.

Nuno Bettencourt

It's a very moody album, but everyone experiences these feelings and situations. I don't think everybody wants to eat toast all day!

Kenneth Cox

It's owned by home folks, and the people who shop, loaf and eat here are home folks,

Alice Lichtenstein

It sounded great! People could eat all the forbidden foods and lose weight,

Denise Bunning

That has helped from a social perspective. Lots of kids eat pizza.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Hugh Jackman

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Frank Thomas

He knows how to pitch to the fat part of the ballpark.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Rebecca West

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Anne Heche

You know, so many things get redone -- music gets remade, Shakespeare gets remade,

Herman Edwards

You can see he really studies the game. He doesn't just walk out there and play. He waits for his opportunity to make the play and when you think he's not going to make the play, that's when he gets you.

David Cook

Everyone is praying and hoping that he gets better. He's a good friend. Nobody is going to be the same after this. It's all going to be different.

Ed Belfour

There's the old saying that when it gets tough, the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

Joe Girardi

I want to make sure he is ready, that he's where he needs to be when he gets there so he doesn't get hurt.

Carl Jackson

Once he gets it on the right position on these greens, he's dangerous.

David Powell

Once Darrius gets in the open, he's got the speed to take it to the end zone,

Mark Manchester

Once BIC gets a lead, they're hard to come back against. They don't make many mistakes.