Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Covert

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

Michael Leunig

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

Barbara Cartland

A woman should say: ''Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?'' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

Dorothy Stratten

A woman goes to bed with a man if she is attracted; if she primarily does it for personal gain, what can you call it but prostitution?

Lisa Johnson's

A working desk in the bedroom is a no-no.

Eric McCormack

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

Chris Mihm

As long as it's a king-sized bed, I'm OK. I just sleep diagonally.

Bob Hill

Ray looks awful. Ray is not good. You could just look at him and tell he's sick without asking. We've got to get him to Miami and get him to bed and see if we can't get him ready to play (today).

Cheng Siwei

Products made in China facilitate American lives from when people wake up in the morning and to the time they go to bed at night.

Dave Lambert

As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses.

Jessica Leonard

People who don't eat breakfast are twice as likely to be obese.

Joe Collier

We just wanted to make the kitchen as large as we could. We were also able to make use of all those big windows. Now the light pours in into the breakfast nook and the view now looks out toward the pool and the pretty cedar trees.

Dan Brown

My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

Anthony Bourdain

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

Robert Benchley

Who has not wished that his host would come out frankly at the beginning of the visit and state, in no uncertain terms, the rulesand preferences of the household in such matters as the breakfast hour? And who has not sounded out his guest to find out what he likes in the regulation of his diet and modus vivendi (mode of living)?

Robert A. Heinlein

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

Veronica Roth

I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking?

Ernest Hemingway

They arrested us after breakfast.

Jennifer Aniston

As an actor, you have be up in the morning, so you make your dinner and go to bed.

Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners

Rusty Wallace

I've never seen it yet, so I'm going over to look at it. He's got it all done and it's for sale. The rest of the day, I might play nine holes of golf. Then, I'm going to have a nice early dinner at my favorite Italian joint.

Jane Addams

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

Greg Biffle

We're going out for steak dinners and we're finishing in the top five and we're third in points and everything's great.

Red Buttons

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Sydney Poitier, who said to Lester Maddox, Guess who's not coming to dinner? Never got a dinner!

Sarah Nie

I guess I made friends with people who were not too much the party type. But I was never the type of person who would like to party too much. I never felt the urge to do that, I much prefer going downtown for a dinner or a movie. So it didn't matter whether I was younger.

Stephen Horn

If this goes through, we will meet with the aldermen biweekly and have dinner one night a week.

Ryan Dunn

Bam:Let's see if we can rock and knock this thing over. Ryan:Yeah, thats how I wanted to spend my afternoon... dead.

Kym Whitley

I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny.

Neil Innes

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

Ali Farahnakian

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

Chris Austin

Sometimes students find it funny when it happens to someone else.

Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Jenny Lewis

Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.

Allison Jones

Pretty people don't keep comedies on the air. Funny people keep comedies on the air.

Chris Parnell

'Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren't I funny?' - that just wasn't my instinct.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Mary Pope Osborne

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Paul Kariya

At home we just have to score in shootouts and obviously Sullivan and I didn't do that tonight.

Morris Peterson

At home, it's all about pride, and to lose so many at home at the start of the season, that was telling was that we had no character.

Joe Duffy

At home I'm obedient. The first day I'm back, I usually just listen to what she tells me to do.

Charlie Ebersol

As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.

Martin Rucinsky

That's where we go when we miss home.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Carrie Martin

People get really comfortable, and they don't want to leave. These people's lives have been completely uprooted. This is the only home they've known for weeks.

Thomas Campbell

O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Francis Mathew

Seek to join Power, do not seek to stop power because you will fail.

Alexander Rumyantsev

Russia is ready to join the project anytime, because it has enough potential and willingness for it.

Tony Norfield

This is screwed up big-time, the whole intervention program. It's possible that there will be more intervention, but it's unlikely the U.S. will join in again.

Greg Gazin

Those who can't speak join Toastmasters; Those who can also join.

Stephen Baldwin

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Nora Roberts

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

Diane Keaton

Len said, 'I'll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,'

Abdullah Abdullah

Terrorists from all over the world have joined them.

Ken Kendrick

We are thrilled to have Josh join our staff,

Brian Jacques

Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got the say, ... If you don't, it's like putting your kid in an orphanage.

Rodman Philbrick

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

Robyn Hitchcock

As an amorphous, shapeless kid that wanted to be a singer but didn't know how you went about it, that seemed like a starting place.

Ron Scott

As a kindergarten teacher, I feel secure having her here. These kids are young, and they rely on her.

Michael Clarke

A year ago, we saw what that kid could do when he got in a groove. He put on a nice show out there in muddy conditions.

Charles Coe

Randolph has come up big last two weeks. He's a strong kid and deceptively fast.

Jeff Boogaart

Ramsey has a 6-8 kid and two quick guards. They played us tough and they've got some kids who take up a lot of space in the middle.

Al Martin

People up here liked the quieter versions. But kids would like the rock 'n' roll version.

Harold Chitwood

Our shots would not go down and we were down by 10 at the half. In the second half, they were too much for us. They were quicker than us and they had a lot of kids to keep running at us.

Ben Street

The thing was just lying there for me to put in.

Archimedes

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

Barbara Kingsolver

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

Bashar al-Assad

In the End, a Lie Is a Lie.

Bashar al-Assad

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.

Ayn Rand

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level...

Ayn Rand

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

Bertrand Russell

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Bertrand Russell

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Miley Cyrus

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

Catherine McCormack

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

Miley Cyrus

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Craig Finn

The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.

Brian Clough

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Brit Hume

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

Trev Faulk

At the end of Sunday afternoon, we just want to be 2-1.

e. e. cummings

May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young

Alexander Pope

E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Archie Panjabi

The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven't made the bed and if you don't get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.

Al Yankovic

My wife went off with Elvis.

Charles Barkley

My wife's married. I'm not.

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Craig Finn

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

Craig Kilborn

Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put it on his wife's Gold Card.

Charles Spurgeon

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

Barbara Bush

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.