Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Wynn

He seems to define himself all the time by saying 'better than Steve Wynn,' or 'better than the Mirage.' We, at first, were amused by this and ignored him.

Nik Kershaw

I was amused to read that they've actually put together a marketing plan, which said I would be touring extensively in the spring. So how was I?

John Hodgman

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

Kate McEnroe

I am always amused by them. They aren't wrong, but they just aren't project- specific enough.

Joseph Hoffman

In some ways, he may be looking down at all of this and be amused by it all. He was a person who liked being anonymous.

Alexander Downer

Their sort of ugly, sneering, amused attitude at the slaughter of innocent people is just horrific,

Michael Leunig

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

James Thurber

It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused

Ray Brown

I had to have two cakes because I had so many candles. That really hit hard.

Zhang Yansheng

The small-sized refrigerators we specially designed and manufactured for American consumers to store wine are sold like hot cakes in the United States,

Laurie Colwin

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

Jimmy Smith

There's not a one of these cakes worth less than $100.

Ron Ben-Israel

I have a showroom where we experiment with twelve cakes. We develop sketches and ideas for cakes for the next season. We work with the top fashion designers to see what type of lace they are using or work with the top florist for us to be able to make various sugar roses or flowers.

Francis Wollenzien

My dad thought all wedding cakes should be white. Times have changed.

Navarrete Ashford

Most of our customers are students and faculty, but we do have people come in from the outside. We do custom cakes and we're hoping to get an outside community thing going here.

Felicity Kendal

I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

Maxim Knight

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.

Richard Hartley

All the students will be with the same classmates and teachers they had before the Easter holiday began.

Ryan Hunter

It's going to be great. I'm looking forward to seeing which one of my former classmates they're going to have volunteering to drive me around.

Troy Mauldin

It's the last big party of the school year-the last time to see all your classmates at one time.

Jeff Boone

We were touched by how many people came. Even her grade school classmates from St. Pius were there. We really appreciated it.

Alexandra Robbins

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

Laila Robins

Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.

Calvin Baker

One mother said that at 8 p.m. in her kitchen, she watched her son have a spirited exchange (online) with his classmates over the content of their homework -- those things just can't happen with paper and pencil.

Michael Caputo

We have classmates from all over the country who come back for our reunion.

English Proverb

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

Two Chainz

If you a chicken head, go somewhere and lay some eggs

Ron Ben-Israel

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

William Morris Hunt

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

Ronald Reagan

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

Tony Gerlicz

Clearly, an organization has to be accountable, but (should not have to) put all (its) eggs in a narrow testing basket.

Murray Rothbard

Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Kathy Bates

The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.

Julian Baggini

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

Mariangee Bogado

I was looking at the scoreboard a lot. I knew I had the no-hitter, but I think it's all mental. I was just thinking about getting everyone out.

Tamba Hali

I think in the back of his mind, he knew we were coming. He still had to do his job, but he knew we were coming.

Matt Thornton

He wanted to make sure he knew I can compete, for me to pitch like he knows I can, like I know I can.

Pete Fenson

He just shook it off and played the way we knew he could play.

Army Sgt.

He just refused to go until he knew he had a welcoming place,

Jeremy Rowell

He knew what he was getting into. He's such a physical player on offensive side. I don't think he'll have any problems transitioning to defense. He understands how to get after the football.

Jeff Backus

He knew what he was doing. It's a letdown, but we move forward.

Alan Alda

He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.

Ken Whisenhunt

He knew that he needed to practice today in order to play on Sunday, and he did,

Samuel Hopkins

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

Ricki Lake

Hey, I don't produce my shows, I just show up to work!

Jonathan Zittrain

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

Brian Rolston

I've got to produce if we want to be successful.

John Dos Passos

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Jon Jory

It sets the tone for the way we want to produce the play,

Howard Schnellenberger

It's no secret that this state produces high-quality players, ... And there is no reason why every team in the state can't become a winning one.

Marlon Cook

It's not that there's not enough water. It's just that we're trying to produce water from a small geographical area.

Jonas Jennings

He reminded me of myself in college; just raw, raw talent,

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach. He's a raw talent.

Steve Gunderson

Reclaimed water is not raw sewage, but it's still unauthorized.

Jason O'Mara

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

O.J. Mayo

That could be right. (Kansas State) could be a possibility. At the same time, we don't want to go to a raw program.

George Ferguson

The approach, in fairness, should be to re-negotiate the contract, so that we don't end up with raw sewage from Sumas in the Sumas River again,

Fred Goss

We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Susan Johnson

In Illinois, there are very scattered reports of true influenza.

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Odette Annable

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

Jon Gruden

It's done with. We need Simeon Rice back.

Jerry Swanson

This is the best; this is what wild rice is.

Rose Fong

We are the new Rice Bowl, second generation.

Janet Jacobs

When he told us, I got up from the table, shocked and surprised,

William Cooper

I will be shocked if he didn't play.

Dan Brown

I have been shocked at their reaction. Furthermore I do not really understand it.

Hope White

I'll be very shocked if we didn't use all of it.

Mick Durham

I'm really shocked with the way we played.

Barbara Smith

I'm really shocked something like this would happen.

Derek Keenan

I'm not shocked we're doing as well as we are.

Louis Sheldon

This is all tied to Jack? ... I'm shocked out of my socks.

Ernest Kinney

It kind of shocked all of us. This is unbelievable.