Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Greil Marcus

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Ian Mckellen

Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

Ian Anderson

There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

Iain Banks

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Allen Tate

All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead....

Allan Bloom

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Ann Douglas

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Ann Landers

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

Ann Landers

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

Andrea Jung

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

Andrea Gibson

You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.

Andrea Dworkin

Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.