Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Price

Hagen played in tournaments as though they were cocktail parties.

Joanna Lumley

I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.

Kofi Annan

In already unstable societies, this cocktail of disasters is a sure recipe for more conflict,

Charles Smith

The cocktail party is a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite for dinner.

Brooks Atkinson

The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

Terry Wogan

The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It's a cocktail and dinner. I know I'm a tired old geezer, but there you are.

Michael Fink

It's definitely lace for evening this spring. Saks loves lace in faded pastel colors used in cocktail and evening gowns, all in a long and lean silhouette -- no poufs.

Jude Law

I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

Galina Espinoza

She likes to go for cocktail length dresses. She'll probably wear something a little longer for the Oscars; though not necessarily floor length.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

Jim Compton

We tore everything out of here. All that was left when we started was the floors and the walls.

Jack Smith

We've been working a lot on floor game and getting three or four passes and then hitting someone in the paint inside like that. I thought the kids played pretty steady. I liked the way we ran the floor tonight.

Rich Basirico

I thought we got up and down the floor really well, and our shot selection was excellent.

Brian Hill

I think it's us struggling with our offense. I don't think it's so much what other teams are doing to us, I just think it's ourselves. Right now I don't see the mental toughness when we go out on the floor and play and like a team playing with that type of confidence, I think we're hurting ourselves more than other teams are hurting us.

Jeff Davis

He's being dishonest. Just let it come to the floor for a vote.

Doc Rivers

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

James Scott

When they key in on the big men, it just opens the floor up so we can knock down shots. It's fun.

Wendy Price

We looked winded. They looked winded, too. The floor here is longer than we're used to, so I don't know if that was the reason ? that plus being on break.

Pete Carroll

He's going to have an operation. It's going to be a lengthy recovery.

Robert Rottersman

What I'm going to try and do here is take a rather lengthy report and summarize it.

William Godwin

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

John Burns

I have talked to them at length about it in my office.

Kate Atkinson

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

Moe Ammar

It's a very, very lengthy process. We have a little over 500 members today, but out of the 500, we only pick four.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Jacques Chiron

It was the perfect length and everything... Perfect color.

Dr. Seuss

Shorth is better than length.

Herman Edwards

He likes trying to make the big kick,

Kurt Busch

He likes to talk a lot. We like to race.

Priscilla Hill

He likes that they respect the sport there, not like in America, where it's all about football.

Graeme Base

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.

Ruth Reichl

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

Andre Johnson

I think any offensive player likes to touch the ball, ... That's what you're supposed to do.

Nick Nolte

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

Buddy Bell

He's come a long way, ... He likes being in that situation.

Rob Zombie

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Matisyahu

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Phil Zepeda

Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

Pierre Lapointe

In the long term, I remain positive but the question is how much longer will we have up and downs, but mostly downs, like we've been having for two or three weeks.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

George Charamba

I no longer talk to you and you must never phone me again.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

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

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

Winston Churchill

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

Ray Burrows

I'm bored, even though I've got a lot to do, ... I'm tired. I'm frustrated.

Unknown

Go mairir is go gathair - May you live and may you wear it out.

Alexandra Roach

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

Don Cherry

I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'

Johnny Gimble

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Whit Ayres

There's weariness and frustration. But that's different from active, nationwide protests.

Dr. Bahr

This is just too important not to wear a helmet.

Jasmine Guinness

I try not to wear too much makeup, as I think there comes a point where too much makes you look older.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.