Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Fonda

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

C. S. Lewis

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

Alafair Burke

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

Dylan Moran

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

Adam Ross

I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.

Ani Difranco

Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

Amy Poehler

You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.

Allen Collins

If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?

Allan Gregg

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Ian Wright

It would be different if it was someone you didn't like and he was a horrible person, giving it all the time, but he's not like that.

Jeff Parker

I've been on the kids since Day One about playing hard and never giving up when you're down,

Billy Donovan

The whole thing with them is, if they pull up on jump shots in the lane, they take runners in the lane, and we are giving two, we are going to live with that. But we were not living with threes.

Robert Kirkman

The X-Men have just been through a lot. It's pretty much been non-stop since the beginning, really. So I'm giving them the night off.

Brian Griese

This is a sad, sad day for me, ... Sean Mahan got me. I'm a man of my word, though. I'm going to take it like a man. This thing is already giving me a headache, though.

Thomas Mitchell

The way you get (approval) is you demonstrate to the public that you are giving a quality product, which is what Medicaid is supposed to be,

Travis Lee

That's not like me. I want to be more selective, instead of giving away some at-bats.

Rep. Simrill

You're just taking it from the smokers and giving it to the eaters.