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.

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.

Kim Kardashian

Maybe I'll just be a good aunt.

Madeleine L'Engle

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Charles Williams

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

Nick Earls

I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

Seanan McGuire

I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on 'Hamlet' and caused quite a lot of trouble!

David Levithan

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

Katherine Anne Porter

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

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.

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.

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.

Augustine Birrell

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

Augustine Birrell

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Arthur Koestler

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

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.

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.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Stan Cave

You have nothing to vet in court if you haven't put it on the books yet.

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Emily Johnson

Let?s just say you?re not going to see these books at the public library.

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.

Terry Mackin

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

Paula Clark

The sad part about electronics is once you buy it it is obsolete. We live in a disposable society, when they upgrade they just throw it away.

Jan Vandermoortele

The scarcest commodity at this time is time. All the rest money can buy, but money can't buy time.

Raymond Floyd

It was the start of it, and now we're using 5-woods and all these hybrids. Everybody's got them now. It just wasn't in the realm of things back then. They didn't even make it. You saw a 5-wood in women's sets a little bit. That's why I went to a custom club shop. You just couldn't walk in and buy a 5-wood. ... We had 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-woods, and that was it.

Bruce Snyder

It was an unknown quantity. People didn't know the story, didn't know about the performances. It needed to be in theaters and get people talking before they were going to buy a copy to keep forever.

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.

Tyler Haynes

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

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.

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.

Louis MacNeice

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

John Gibbons

We want to hang in there and see what develops. We want to finish well and say we had a good year. You play until you're eliminated.

Landon Donovan

Crucial, ... You don't want to worry about other results, you don't want to worry about getting a result in the sixth game. If you can finish it ... you finish it.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We finished this one. We made it hard though. I told the guys that they are kind of hard on their coaches.

John Kaleo

I started the game and played about halfway through the game. To get hurt in the 3rd quarter and watch in the 4th quarter was tough, ... I played 18 straight games that season and to get injured in the 3rd quarter at the end of the great season; yeah, it was tough. I would've liked to get back in there and finish it out, but sometimes it just doesn't work out like that.

Rafael Nadal

Is more for precaution. You don't know tomorrow what's happen, no? But now I am happy because I don't feel too much pain. But I can finish the match, so that's a good sign.

Dr. Trucco

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

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.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Ray Allen

Everything's blurry on the right side. The light getting in it aggravates it.

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,

Andrew Sukawaty

people that want to use the phone a lot.

Paul Douglas

People that like snow, need to get out there and play in it.

Nancy Cole

People that I've talked to today, their question seems to be: Will he quit again?

Chris Squire

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

Jeremy London

People are used to seeing actors in LA.

Andrew Spence

People are turning up and the police turning them away.

Joe DeRupo

People are trying to look at satellite photos, and people are trying to get in there to look. Unfortunately it's not only impassable but dangerous. We're still waiting to hear.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

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.

Lindy Ruff

He's not well. I'd put him in the serious category. He wasn't doing well, even at the end of the game.

Jay Wright

He's got a serious injury, but he's doing OK. He's being evaluated right now. That's really all we can say.

Paolo Sorrentino

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

John Irving

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

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.

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.

Scott Young

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

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.

LeBron James

That was very strange. We were way up, so I could sit over there.

Chanita Olds

When the buzzer went off I had to sit down, because everything was a blur.

Mike Bohn

When that's done, Ricardo and I will sit down and talk about his tenure.

Elena Dementieva

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

Rashard Lewis

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

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.

Melissa Carlson

Get out there and start talking to people.

Marcello Lippi

From here on it's serious, no more expanded rosters. I have to start working on the team for the World Cup.

Jim Backus

If at the end of this year, if we have money, we may start replacing some of them,

Ai Miyazato

I don?t think I will start worrying all of a sudden after I get there.

Henry Lewis

If it's not there when I get back, ... I'll just have to start over.

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.

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.