Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

Don Rose

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Christopher Cox

The speaker of the House is just that -- the speaker of the House, ... It is the people's house. It is the business of all of America that is at stake.

Jay London

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

Benjamin Franklin

A fine genius in his own country, is like a gold in the mine.

Kelly Packard

The shot was intended to go to her. Becky made a beautiful but difficult pass. Ruth caught it, had somebody hanging on her but hit the shot.

Kathy Miles

That this event took place this year and brought such a crowd is so good for the beautiful people of New Orleans.

Ayelet Waldman

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

Diana Wynne Jones

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

Demi Lovato

I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.

Demi Lovato

I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.

Demi Lovato

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!

Bram Stoker

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

Bram Stoker

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

Ayrton Senna

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Jane Goodall

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

Bram Stoker

The blood is the life!

Eldridge Cleaver

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.

Liam Gallagher

We should be judged as musicians, and bloody fine ones at that.

Jim Hill

There's some sense that at least with blood pressure, it's fairly easily measured, and if there is an increase, then the physician can take the patient off the drug fairly quickly.

Peter Handal

There's no way to draw the line. If you say you can't smoke and you use blood tests to police it, you could also test for genes that cause cancer.

Rob Daum

The toughest game to win in the playoffs is your first home game. And I'm not sure we even deserved to win the game. But it's a huge win, because every win at this time of the year is big. To draw first blood is really important for us.

Buddha

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

Brian Henson

We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

John Capel

Even at the trials we've never quite seen anything like that, ... All the red, white and blue coming around the corner like that -- all in a straight line, all in stride, all in unison.

John Cohen

Big Blue Nation was out in full force. It was great to see that many blue shirts in the stands.

Michael Kors

the optimism of an endless horizon and blue skies ahead.

Larry Finucane

You have to represent the blue and orange with pride, and dignity, and class, and I think they are responding to that, and I'm very proud about that.

Larry Wachtel

What does Buffett know? He's only worth $18 billion. I think he has warned of this in the past. And, indeed, he's right on blue chips There has been a gravitation toward the cyclical stocks and away from the blue chips.

Shirley Manson

We just wanted to make a record that sounded cool. So we stole from hip-hop, we stole from techno and blues and mashed them all up.

E. B. White

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

Elizabeth Perkins

Those blue jeans looked great, you know? I mean the boy looks good. It was such a drag working with Jon Bon Jovi, the rock star, every day. It was so difficult just to walk out on the set.

Jia Qinglin

We hope to work together with people of all walks of life in Taiwan, enlarge the scope of cooperation and strive for the bright future of the cross-straits relations.

Albert Maltz

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.

Mark Mersel

We'd have interest in talking to Chicago. It's a great organization with a great coach and bright future.

Bob Howard

We've prepared the same as we have every week. We just try to get better with each game. The more big games you play in, the more it helps when you get in front of those big crowds under those bright lights.

Thales

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

Stephane Dujarric

Look on the bright side. Mr. Taylor is in jail. He's in the special court where he was indicted. We feel it's safe.

Marina and the Diamonds

I feel weird without lipstick. Even after the first time I wore a really neon pink or a really bright red, I felt really strange without it there. My lips are a main feature, so I feel naked without them.

Manmohan Singh

I foresee a very bright era for sports in our country.

Joe Mihalich

Charron never lost confidence in himself. When the bright lights are on, he wants to be out there.

Katherine Miller

This one looked like we needed to have it checked out,

William Taylor

For the liquor to be checked out, the floor manager who monitors all the registers has to physically do the checkout,

Wimar Witoelar

He did not say he expects to be impeached... We have checked the recording... he recognizes the possibility of impeachment, he didn't say that he would be impeached.

Gregg Popovich

I'll be checking minutes more than I've ever checked before, and making sure that people are getting enough playing time. Some nights, that'll be a real tough thing to do.

Jose Castillo

The doctors checked on my knee, and they said it's good. I feel pretty good right now. I'm ready to play.

Mary Cole

It was frustrating, because we checked it so many times.

Jason Swanson

It was sore that day. Then the next day I went and got my knee checked out, and it was perfect.

Winston Churchill

It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.

Mike Hanson

It is something that they think about, not only when they go on similar calls, where their incident may have happened, but also something that they think about on a daily or weekly basis.

Amy Fischer

Daily messenger service for telegrams stopped in the early 1970s and was replaced by next day express delivery by courier.

Bob Dole

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Charles Bukowski

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

Haz Iwendi

While they (Briton and American) are having a drink ... they were kidnapped ... and taken a way.

Sorin Cerin

The real wise man will listen to the symphony of silence and drink the water of forgetfulness to understand the sense of his emptiness.

Donny Osmond

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

Diogenes

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Dean Martin

I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.

Dave DeCecco

Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it.

Irish Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

Brian Sun

While the firm may have historically done some work for Mr. Ovitz, neither the firm nor Mr. Fields was involved in any way in the Anita Busch matter.

Ann Aguirre

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

Tim Clark

I do feel more comfortable over there. I go there and feel like, 'I can win this week.' I want to feel like that over here, too. There's no doubt, this is the toughest tour to win on, and the fields at the top are always much more bunched.

Anthony Lewis

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

Dennis Smith

A year ago, I think I filled my tanks in the $1.15, ($1.18) range, and this year, we're pushing $2.25 to $2.30.

Atharva Veda

The One Lord of the Universe is the Support of His humble servants. They love the One Lord; their minds are filled with love for the Lord. The Name of the Lord is all treasures for them.

Robert Gottlieb

'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial.

Joe Scott

Friday was just filled with anger, not so much sadness. As the weekend went on, it just got sadder and tougher.

E. P. Thompson

We have filled that niche. People are very satisfied with this product.

Yoko Ono

Thank you George, it was grand knowing you.

Charles Breithaupt

This is going to be a grand experiment.

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Adolf Hitler

History is as Old as My Grandfather

Andre Leon Talley

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

Sophia Myles

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

Victoria Azarenka

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

Toby Keith

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

Nik Wallenda

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

Lech Walesa

If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

Sean Howard

It has outraged the community. He should be ashamed.

Suzanne Collins

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

Sigmund Freud

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

Neil Gaiman

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Gary Snyder

That's the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

Harold Prince

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

Harold Prince

Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

James Daly

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

Gertrude Stein

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Eckhart Tolle

Become conscious of being conscious.

Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Deepak Chopra

Time is just quantified eternity.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

Adolf Loos

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Alexander MacLaren

Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.

Alexander Pope

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Ambrose Bierce

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

Thomas Hood

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Rip Taylor

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

Tacitus

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Mason Cooley

Tears are great peace-makers.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Ayn Rand

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Jane Goodall

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'