Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Trilby Lundberg

The gasoline price has broken records repeatedly in 2005, but until September 9 it did not exceed the true all-time high.

Sam Johnson

They took the brick, threw it through the door. They broke the register.

Kurt Barnard

They're willing to buy, but not willing to go broke in the process,

Stuart Schweigert

They sealed off the end. Linebacker committed to the left. It was 30 yards between me and him. I saw the corner outside, so I kind of stayed inside, and he broke it out and ran down the field.

Stephen McInerny

It struck some object under the bridge. The mast broke off at the base.

Michael Gregory

It's not so much GM, but it could have been one of the proverbial straws that broke consumers' backs. All of a sudden people have to pay more for energy, debt service, healthcare, and save more for retirement.

Peter Kornbluh

It's not only justice, it's poetic justice. The corruption scandal broke the back of his supporters.

Jake Paltrow

For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Andrew Bell

If people feel they got screwed, I'd be happy to show them everything. I've never heard of any real big problems with the elections.

Charles Jones

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jon Garland

I love the city. It's where I wanted to play, where I wanted to be. And I'm happy to be there.

Reggie Evans

I'll just write it off (on his taxes). I'm just happy I'm playing.

Matt Holliday

I know him real well. I'm happy he got called up.

Yannick Noah

I know he's been working really hard. I talk to him all the time, and I feel like he's trying as hard as he can. And he's happy here. I'm happy that he's happy.

Fred Armisen

I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself.

Harry Reid

I have to say without any qualification that I'm very happy that we have someone like her.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Gwen Stefani

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alison Sweeney

If you're sitting in front of the TV, you can't have ice cream. But if you're running around all day, then yeah, you can.

Alison Sweeney

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, "If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, "Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously." All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.

Ann Curry

When you treat yourself right, you run better and more efficiently. Which means you don't have to go 100 miles an hour to get everything done.

Ann Brashares

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

Ann Coulter

Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages.

Ann Coulter

Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question - unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is surely no more frightening than B. Hussein Obama.

Ann Coulter

Before the New York Times starts running "Portraits in Grief" of former Enron employees, it's worth remembering that even after the collapse, Enron stock is still worth more than the entire Social Security "trust fund."