Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandt Jobe

Last August, I was sitting on a couch wondering if I was ever going to play golf again. A year later, I'm playing in the Tour Championship. Right now, after all that, life is pretty good.

Carl Miller

I was a couch potato until my mother talked me into swimming,

Tom Larson

He was sitting on the couch in his pajamas. He had on his reading glasses, and he was facing the TV.

James Heckman

I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

Hayley Williams

I know a lot of people think L.A. and they see a picture in their head, but those people obviously don't know me, because I sit on a couch every day. That's my idea of a good time - just being in a sweat suit.

Julia Davis

It's hard to get started. Hard because you want to lay on the couch and be lazy.

Ken Williams

It's too long a wait. But I'd rather wait till Saturday than next Feb. 15. I've been there before, sitting on the couch watching this all happen (for other teams). It's not a good feeling.

Pam Tambini

It's good to be back. When I was sick, I still watched the games. That wasn't fun, watching from the couch when I knew I could be playing.

Jonathan Richman

I visited Lou Reed in New York a few times before I went away. I visited them a few times when I was still living at home- took the train down. I hung out with the Velvet Underground a bit, slept on their manager's couch but it was Steve Selznick not Danny Fields.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Brendan Shanahan

He just knows how to play the game. Most times, I'm the one standing in front but if I'm not there, he has no fear of going in there and doing that job. The goal isn't scored unless Steve's screening the goalie.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends, ... He has no fear.

Sugata Mitra

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

James Douglas

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

Chuck Hillery

Kim was kind of limited with fouls. She hit some big free throws down the stretch.

Ed Pendt

I yelled at (Scheffer) as she was going by to go to the hoop. She went to the hoop, got fouled and made the free throws.

Gary Mills

He didn't shoot a great percentage this year, but he always makes his free throws when the game's on the line.

James Blake

He didn't get many free points on his serve and I was getting some on mine,

Jakob Bohme

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Joseph Smith

I take full responsibility for the crimes. . . . I knew I was wrong, but I couldn't stop.

Colin McRae

He was a great guy and full of laughs and great spirit,

Paul Cabana

Guys were joking saying Savy is back so now you'll be ready to go. I kind of laughed and said, 'Oh, you guys are full of it.' They were right.

Bob Harman

There are so many issues and the system is full of holes. It's a mess. Every year the state tries to put a number on something that's nebulous and none of these numbers are ever accurate.

Kate Bush

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

Todd Christensen

He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.

Bill Durham

He said he had listened to some clips of my song and, if I wanted to get airplay, to send him a full CD.

John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Anton LaVey

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Robert Jordan

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

Lauren Dougherty

His hair is more naturally sun-kissed, and he has a little less of a golden tan.

W. Tozer

I love it when you win in two, and I hate it if you go to the golden goal.

Anthony Cummings

The Golden Slipper is a pressure race and this horse doesn't feel pressure.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.

Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Epictetus

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Ebenezer Ekuban

I'd be lying to you if I said that it's just another game. It really isn't.

Andy Pettitte

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a blow.

Richard Page

As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

Richard P. Feynman

The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction — a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory — who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.

Richard Hofstadter

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.

Richard Hofstadter

To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.

Rebecca West

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

Umberto Eco

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Umberto Eco

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

Josh Billings

It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Samuel Johnson

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

William Faulkner

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

William Graham Sumner

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

Robert G. Allen

Many things can make you rich, but only a few things can enrich you.

Samuel Johnson

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Napoleon Hill

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

Epicurus

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

Don Cox

We're not getting rich by any means, we're surviving and we're healing, ... and we're just tryin' to make a buck.

Walton Goggins

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Mallory Ortberg

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

Scott Olson

They will turn the tables if they know someone is after them.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

Michel de Montaigne

And not to serve for a table-talk.

Boomer Esiason

I got the title for you, ... Table For One.