Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Pym

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.

Ally Carter

Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

Dolly Parton

I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.

Judith Jamison

I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, somebody down the block from you. An aunt or an uncle. Some relative. A parent.

Jessica McNamee

I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

Will Grace

Grace- If you're looking for your Aunt Karen, she's not here. She doesn't work on days that end with..."day.

Mary Quant

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

William Shenstone

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Margaret Atwood

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Ray Waddell

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Philip Chien

The whole object of the book is to take the two-dimensional bios and make them into three-dimensional people.

Travis Paquet

This is a win in our book as far as I am concerned. We keep working hard. It'll come.

Rick Riordan

The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.

Daniel Handler

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,

Gena Prochaska

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Daniel Handler

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

William Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Bernie Siegel

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.

Gustave Flaubert

Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.

Dorothy Sayers

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Michael Terpstra

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Jim Kliesch

Any category that you're interested in, you can buy green.

Kurt Barnard

Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it.

Diana Yates

The strong are getting stronger. There are more opportunities to buy at a cheaper price.

Terry Mackin

Advertisers can't buy enough video in today's market.

Mark Friedman

Once you buy a cargo pant (Capri or otherwise), a Bermuda short or two, leggings and gauchos (if you don't already own them) - sprinkle in some grey you are good to go with what you have from last year. We do not think there is enough excitement compared to the strength of the last two springs.

Stephen Baker

Now consumers can buy the computer they want, not just the desktop they can afford.

Nathan Brookwood

Now consumers can buy a Mac that is three times faster and for the same price.

Kelvin Sampson

I just think he's a good player that fills a need for us. Every time he and I have talked, I left with a good feeling.

Brene Brown

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

Larry Garza

As for me, I'm single, and it hurts me 'cause he's not here and he won't be able to see his grandchildren grow up. He was always proud of his three sons finishing college, growing up and providing for themselves.

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Chris Neff

Right now, we're 2-0 and we don't know anything about the rest. This really is like a new season, and we're hoping we can finish it 6-0.

Kathleen McCarthy

The Rockland runner is very good and Kate stayed with her the whole race. Kate is so consistent. I can always rely on her to finish strong.

Denny Rinehart

It was tough to finish fourth, but overall the girls did a good job. I can't be negative at all. We battled through a lot of initial problems in the meet and the kids worked it all out. We still have some kids recovering from illness and injuries. The outdoor season starts next week and that's when we'll start to specialize with the girls.

Rod Smith

The season's not over. We've got to finish the season off right.

Ellis Hobbs

The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me to play.

Mike Degory

This is a physical game, I play a physical position, and I guess I had a little luck on my side to have the streak and hopefully finish it.

Michael Barrett

This is not the way we wanted to finish the stand.

Dr. Trucco

This is the first time that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

bell hooks

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Brent Weeks

Light cannot be chained.

Brent Weeks

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

Barry Goldwater

We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

Antonio Machado

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Antonio Porchia

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Edward Snowden

I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

Brian Greene

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Jay Jacobs

People stumbled into the war by making mistakes.

Tom Daschle

People still would have the right to go to court,

Jodie Sweetin

People still watch 'Full House' all the time. It's on three times a day!

Gary Koenig

People still want it, that's why the old stars are still doing it.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Vijay Mallya

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Gerald Veasley

Look at his face! He's serious about this! This ain't no joke.

Jane Pauley

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

Jeff Vandermeer

You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

Stephanie Zimbalist

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Russell Dynes

We really haven't had a situation like this.

Frank Robinson

Don't tell him. Yes, I would. If he was at .1995, I would sit him.

Rachel Weisz

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

Thomas Ryan

Let him sit here in his skivvies while we get him a new suit if they want to play like that.

Scott Young

I was sitting over there and all of a sudden bam, bam, bam.

Sandy Alderson

I don't think I'll be sitting with Walt this week,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.

Patrick Riml

We will see. She's on the start list. We still have to see how she is doing tomorrow.

Rashard Lewis

We showed some fight, but it wasn't enough. We need that from the start and not just wait until the end.

Sander Levin

We start from scratch. Everything has to be on the table.

E. B. White

What I first had to do was to start them thinking differently. They just didn't have a whole lot of pride.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Frank Robinson

One thing he has to start doing, he has to start being productive. He has to, because you can't keep going 0-for-3, 0-for-4, 0-for-4, 1-for-4, that type of thing, from the top of the lineup.

S. Hughes

I am speechless, honestly, I feel like I'm going to start crying.

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.