Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Irwin Thomas

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Evo Morales

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

Ellen Key

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Ian Mckellen

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

Wen Jiabao

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

David Rabe

There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.

Chris Colfer

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

Alice Walker

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Richard Daley

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

David Beckham

Me? I would love to be famous in America. I like the American people and I like the way they look up to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods . I'm sure they criticize their stars occasionally but it doesn't reach the point where they ever put down their own people and their own stars. That's what's nice for me.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

Jim Tracy

I was harshly criticized for the decision to make Eric Gagne a closer,

Sean Linville

I'm a Husky (football) season-ticket holder myself, and I still think he should be playing baseball.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

Clyde Guinn

Part of being a long-term holder is don't do anything you don't want to live with for a long time. The first tenet of that is don't overpay.

Paula Radcliffe

It's very special. It's right up there with running the world record. It's important as world record holder I also show that I can win major titles as well.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. is not the holder of truth.

Robert Lloyd

We don't want to be the holder of services intellectual capital.

Jesse Owens

Just ironge the people who tend mock at you

Ann Fisher

When you test a newborn, you're only testing for the mother's antibodies. This makes a mockery of the whole notion of voluntary testing for pregnant women.

Bob Marley

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard

Richard Reeves

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.

Tom Daschle

This isn't reform, ... This makes a mockery of McCain-Feingold.

Harper Lee

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

Harper Lee

Things are never as bad as they seem.

Kian Egan

I know people mock us, but we do what we do. It is all about pop music and entertaining our fans. We don't pretend to be anything we are not, and while some may not like our music, there are plenty out there who do.

Joe Horn

The Saints aren't going to be the first team that they made a mockery of.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”