Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Debbie Smith

Reaching out to children in need and touching their lives in this special way is so important.

Peter Craig

Our thoughts and prayers are with her children and her family.

Mark Madsen

Our thoughts and prayers are with Fred Hoiberg and his family and his children, because there's not a finer human being around than Fred Hoiberg. But hey, we've got to make adjustments, and we've got some good players who will hopefully come in and fill the void.

Sharon Lewis

Our detectives are interviewing the parents of the two children we found, to see whether they can't throw any light on the subject ... At the moment we have no leads.

Joe Biden

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

Jason O'Mara

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

KP Kushwaha

People are still coming to hospitals with unconscious children in their arms. Some of them are coming to us very late.

Teresa Belew

People going, starting to drink at 12-o'clock with children and leaving after a long day in the sun out there, that's just a risky, risky combination.

Glenn Christenson

People come, they have a very good meal, for very good value for their dollar, they grab a couple rolls of quarters, play 'till they're gone and then go home.

Charles Pace

People end up having to pay cash. Last month Medicaid was covering them at $3 a prescription; this month it's not going through and instead of $3 they're paying $300. Maybe it will all shake out in a couple of months, but what are these poor people going to do in the meantime?

Peter Nowak

Of course, we learned our lesson from last season, when we (gave up) the third goal and the fourth goal and we lost at home 4-0. And we had a couple of games when we really had to track the deficit in the game. I don't want to have this kind of situation where we have to trail the result every game. We have to do better.

Tiffany Thompson

Of course, usually one or two doesn't fare too well during the trip. A couple are usually dead on arrival.

Tate Casey

Off-the-field issues the last couple of years killed us, just killed us. It's a trust factor. If you can't trust a guy to do what he's supposed to do off the field, how are you going to trust him when he's on the field.

Maureen Berk

After the first couple of weeks I was completely addicted. I loved it and I couldn't get enough of it.

Chipper Jones

After the first couple of innings, I would have probably called off the dogs. But it was nice to get a big lead and relax.

Jason Hammel

After the first couple innings I felt pretty confident. I'm disappointed with the outcome. I'm definitely looking forward to the next one.

Christy Scott

Again, we played a solid first game and then let down the second game. We struggled with hitting errors and a couple mental mistakes, but we regrouped and finished well in the third game.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Douglas Adams

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

Plautus

Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

Marnie Stern

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.

Jerry Reed

She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

Gloria Steinem

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

Walt Whitman

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Warren Farrell

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Trisha Yearwood

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

Michael Allen

That's what they do. They primarily like going after big markets.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

John Heimlich

We don't yet have traffic back where we need it, but yes, the problem (of losses) is primarily fares rather than traffic,

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Mike Foster

It's going to be primarily a water issue, ... The big thing is going to be the (storm) surge.

Peter Cardillo

Very well managed, ... I just yesterday raised it to a 'strong technical buy.'

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Raf Simons

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Amy Walter

I don't see that Cuellar starts off as particularly vulnerable.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

P. J. O'Rourke

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

Crystal Moore

I used to get in a lot of trouble and stuff, and I used to be into anything.

Brian Goorjian

Rowdy's (Sheridan) in trouble ... but I think C.J. will be OK.

Frank Dagostino

That's why we're not in the trouble of some of the other condos in the area.

Drayton McLane

You're going to get me in trouble with the commissioner (Bud Selig).

Brandon Sanderson

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Cardinal Richelieu

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Charles Barkley

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

Bruce Lee

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Eddie Van Halen

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Sergei Lavrov

Everything will be watched during the New Year's.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Johnny Damon

It's going to be a very watched weekend.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Billy Laird

We watched film and had a workout in the weight room. I don't like to do it, but we're going to have to do it two more times.

Gary Johnson

I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.