Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessie Evans

Just looking at the guy walking around, I thought his potential was limitless if he learned a few things. As they say, even Ray Charles could have seen it.

James Rowe

He used to be bigger. It's kind of like Charles Barkley. If you can play with it, don't mess with it.

Dan Auerbach

When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

Quincy Jones

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

Phil Colicchio

We thought we were quicker than they were and I thought we could wear them down. Defensively, we just had five kids coming at them the whole time. Offensively, Darrell is instant offense, L.J. stepped up tonight and I thought Charles Miller was outstanding.

H. Hunt

He's been a great friend to the St. Charles Singers.

Robert Gottlieb

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.

Charles Steele

This is not about Danny Porter or Charles Steele or SCLC, ... I want to have a conversation with the nation.

Martin Charnin

That song is gone, it's gone, it's gone. Charles and I have often looked at one another and can't even remember the lyric or the tune.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

John Nestor

I think it's fairly well known that the SEC for one is looking at Tyco, and looking at it very hard. When the SEC looks at any company, they are interested in talking to their auditors. And as part of their look they'd naturally be talking to us, and we'd be talking to them.

Jim Magagna

I think that's a fairly reasonable place to be.

Todd Spencer

I think we got a group with really good size and athleticism. These are big guys who can move. They've all got quick feet and are fairly agile.

Dr. Levy

I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

William Ford

If we want to do repairs next summer, we're going to have to get moving fairly quickly,

Chris Patterson

The main thing is still the humor. . . getting the jokes out there. Music is just something were fairly able at, sort of a carrier for the humor.

Chris Patterson

The main thing is still the humor . . . getting the jokes out there. Music is just something we're fairly able at, sort of a carrier for the humor.

John Hull

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Nicola Sturgeon

It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Matthew Bright

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Viola Spolin

That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.

Maureen McCormick

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Warren Buffett

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

Tyson Chandler

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Walt Disney

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

Sarah Dessen

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Matt Kiefer

He had a long rehab. Ever since he could play (again), he has been a leader. A vocal leader.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William J. Clinton

People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.

Will Ferrell

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Ed Emberley

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

Alan Furst

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.