Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garson Kanin

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Ron Lanphier

The people around here who used to play pool are his age. I'd like to get them coming in. Walking around the tables is good exercise for their bodies and figuring out the shots is good for their minds.

Ninon de

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet

Robert Thompson

The '50s and '60s were an enormous golden age.

Giovanni Bisignani

The approach of the French Government to air transport is from another age. There was little or no financial transparency. And a result that ignores the recommendation of an independent commission makes a total mockery of the consultation process. The government should support greater efficiency rather than shirking its regulatory responsibilities.

David Bradley

We have traditional college-age students in the day, and at night a different crowd comes in.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

John Fitzpatrick

Typically, on-line, there is no way to verify age. You have a credit card being offered or a check card that doesn't have a birth date. You're not looking at the person. There's no way to verify who you're dealing with. The only way to deal with that is at the point of delivery in the case of on-line sales.

Paul Desmond

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

Yahya Jammeh

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Ian Mcewan

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Billy Graham

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

Ellen G. White

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Esther Rolle

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

X. J. Kennedy

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Ellie Goulding

I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and you've got salt crystals on your face. I love that, because it means you've worked really hard.

Morgan Tsvangirai

The people are now crying for peace and national healing,

David Walton

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

Niecy Nash

When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.

Rod Steiger

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

Matthew Quick

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.

Uwe Boll

We're working on Dungeon Siege right now, and we have a great script for Far Cry done already and we're hoping to go into production next year.

Platon

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

Bruce Weber

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

Maurice Jackson

We need to read our keys, pin our ears back and go get them.

Karen Holland

You just engage the residents to be the eyes and ears of the police department.

Ricky Phillips

It didn't meet all our ears that well because we were writing a new record and had great material and we knew it would take time away from that, but it's been so many positives that we are glad we did it.

Juicy J

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

Frank Tyger

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Frank Tyger

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you into trouble.

Source Unknown

What you are doing rings so loudly in my ears that I can't hear what you're saying.

Bible Bible

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Tim Burton

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Gail Carriger

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

Gillian Armstrong

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Ellen Key

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Edward Norton

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Elaine Stritch

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Imelda May

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Valerie June

When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Sathya Baba

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Brittany Snow

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

Daniel Radcliffe

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Richard Daley

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

Nicole Holofcener

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

C. S. Lewis

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

David Atkins

He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.

William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Avril Lavigne

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside.

Alex Pettyfer

I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.

Aldo Leopold

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

Aaron Paul

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

Abraham Cowley

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

D. H. Lawrence

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

Isabella Blow

I want to be kissed by the people I love.

Conor Maynard

My first kiss was when I was 13. I was so nervous that I was shaking. Unfortunately, the girl I kissed never spoke to me again.

Catullus

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

William Shakespeare

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

William Shakespeare

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.

William Shakespeare

the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

William Shakespeare

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

John Guare

Mel said, 'Just make it your own.' And she said, 'I'll kiss each several paper for amends. Aye, mira, here is writ 'kind Julia.' Mel and I just looked at each other - 'There's the show.'

will.i.am

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

David A. Bednar

The Savior knows people by name, He knows their circumstances, and He directs us in our work to bless the lives of individuals.

Paul Auster

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

Robert Kiyosaki

It's not what you know anymore that counts, it's how fast you learn

Petrarch

It is better to will the good than to know the truth,

Alexandre Despatie

Most important, he knows me and how I react to situations. He knows when to push me and when not to push.

Joe Torre

Who knows where that inning would have gone?

Reggie Sanders

Who knows what's going to unfold when we get home? Nobody knows. All we know is this: Now we have a chance.

Alan Paton

who knows what life is, for life is a secret

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Larry Baer

We've reached out to her and she referred us to her son. We're working with the son to see what if anything to do.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Billy Graham

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Heraclitus

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Ryan Scolpini

She's pitched every time we've played. There will be no secrets there. They'll know she'll pitch.

Sandra Brown

Even we have secrets here in Middleburg, Florida, even though we're on Wisteria Lane,

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

S. Hughes

Everyone wants to know, what's your secret? Nothing! No secrets. I'll tell you what's in my chili.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Mark Twain

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

Martha Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Ashton Kutcher

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Caronica DeBose

You know, I haven't even though about it. I have not even thought about it.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Charlotte Bronte

Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

Errol Flynn

It's not what they say about you, it's what they whisper

Ray Bradbury

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.

William Shakespeare

Foul whisperings are abroad

Gordon B. Hinckley

Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.

Ray Bradbury

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Malcolm Turnbull

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

John Betjeman

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

William Shakespeare

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

Chanakya

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.