Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Thomas

They're giving up doing their work and their chores at their homes to come over here and work for us.

Barbara Schneider

People don't like having to do tasks by themselves -- especially housework. Rather than doing chores separately, it can be a much more positive experience when families do them at the same time.

Omar Jacobs

Every time I come home she has got chores for me to do. Take out the garbage, pull weeds, trim the screens. I thought it was a break.

Cindy Chu

Women can hire a domestic helper to help them with their daily chores or child-rearing but some women do not feel comfortable hiring an outsider to do such work. So they turn to their relatives, particularly their mother or their sister, to help them.

Dear Abbey

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores it's called partnership.

Kathy McCauley

I'd have to give her dad the credit for Brittany's strength. Brittany helps her father with firewood and chores and that's helped make her strong.

Ed Wade

At 11 this morning -- or 11:30, when my phone rang -- I was doing household chores and expected to come in and spend some time working on our plans for next year, and being here tomorrow morning first thing to do those things, ... My energy and dedication hasn't been thinking about my next job. I was trying to do this job the right way.

Pat Ruettiger

He grew up being very independent. He had his chores like any kid did at that time. There was never any, 'I don't want to do it.' You had to do it to sustain yourself.

Ami Bera

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Callum Keith Rennie

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.

Jonathan Klein

We've got a newfound dedication to being the newsy alternative. We've always intended to be that, but we haven't quite been as up to that as we should have.

Jonathan Klein

We've got a newfound dedication to being the newsy alternative, ... We've always intended to be that, but we haven't quite been as up to that as we should have.

Benny Goodman

If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.

Ken Bacon

It's not surprising that their facilities are primitive by our standards. It's also not surprising that, given the dedication and money they've devoted to upgrading their military, that they have been able to produce long-range missiles, and to fire them from such primitive spots.

Russ Badeaux

It's a great honor. It shows how much hard work and dedication the girls have put in since Hurricane Katrina.

Tom Meeker

It means people who have a sense of dedication and loyalty to the organization. It means, in its truest sense, the ethos of the company. Something that is revered as the first rite of spring.

Christine Pearson

There's definitely a time loss. There is less dedication and people stop going that extra mile... employees tend to take out their frustration on the organization, not the instigator.

Ken Schneider

It's a tribute to our community, our kids and the dedication they have toward girls basketball. It's a great thing for our community, kids and schools.

Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

Ed Begley, Jr.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

Denis Waitley

Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times

David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

Tyler Brand

We stressed in the locker room before the game that we wanted to come out with energy and intensity, and we didn't do that right at the start. But I was happy with us extending our lead and making that run.

Flip Saunders

When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.

Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Carlos Castaneda

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

Jeff Mittie

The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.

Donnie Edwards

All of us expected to win last week,

Marc Berman

the most disappointing. Nobody expected 'Invasion' to hold the 'Lost' lead-in. But it's losing a good 30 (percent) to 40 percent of the lead-in. That's a lot.

Tarvaris Jackson

It's exciting. You know, it's all new and different for me. I'm working my way through it and trying to do what's expected of me. Like I said, you never really know where you're going or when you're going until you hear your name called. I just want to work hard and show what I can do and just see how it comes out.

Kent Brown

It's a situation we want to be in. We're not expected to win so if we don't, it's no big deal. And if we do, it's all good.

David Myers

A lot of those are still in service a lot longer than we expected they would be.

Heather Stewart

They played their butts off today. Nobody expected us to play this team that tight. I couldn't be more proud.

Jason Richardson

The young guys got a lot of talent. Right now, they're playing with their talent, and they're playing better than what we expected of them.

Frank DeSalvo

They never thought they'd get a fair shake from this department. The guys fully expected what happened to happen.

Thomas Cummings

(During rainy weather) we tend to stay indoors and do household stuff and not socialize. When people get depressed, they tend to isolate themselves. It's a symptom but also a cause.

Beverly Jones

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Rutina Wesley

Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Art Hogan

I think the theme is going to be that you have to pick the winners, and I think the winners are going to be the large-cap household names, like IBM, Dell, Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel. I think they'll lead us for a little while.

Thomas Sutton

He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Chief Joseph

When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.

Edward Hirsch

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

David Hockney

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

Barney Frank

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

Audre Lorde

And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive

Armstrong Williams

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

Arnold Bennett

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Arnold Bennett

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Cherie Lunghi

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Chris Black

If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

Chris Bohjalian

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

Eddie Murphy

I ain't never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay for a while? I ordered some pizza.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.

Ato Essandoh

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

Denis Waitley

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

Steve Largent

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

Steven Wright

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Gil Reyes

It's just not in our plans yet to retire.

William Edwards

We printed 10,000, and we've got plans for the other 2,500.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

David Pleiss

As of now, we don't have any plans for layoffs.

Mike DeLorenzo

Now is the time for residents to prepare and make sure they have their (disaster and evacuation) plans ready.

John Gilbride

They utilized a wide range of smuggling, the most repulsive of which was the use of puppies.

Jim Stone

They (USDB) have a wonderful range of capabilities.

Tamara Tunie

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Paul Gascoigne

The most important thing is to get Rangers into the Premiership.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Esperanza Spalding

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Robert Bach

Americans have been on a multi-year spending spree.

Howard Silverblatt

They're starting to spend some of the money,

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Tim Bell

Spend a little now, but you're going to get more for your buck.

Jose Canseco

Spend a Day with Canseco on the Hill.

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Dickens

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

Charles Dickens

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Charles Dickens

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

Charles Dickens

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

Charlize Theron

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

Alexander Kozulin

Tomorrow we will show the world our might!

Robert Half

A thought for each day: Make it through until tomorrow

Barbara Mandrell

I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

Barbara Mandrell

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

David Bowie

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

Shelley Davis

Wright and Hammond usually are our No. 2 and No. 3 scorers. Tomorrow will be a better day.

Jim Tracy

We've never quit. We just need to come back here tomorrow and try to turn this thing around.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.