Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.

Gayle King

I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.

Nicki Minaj

Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

John Perry Barlow

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

Rose George

Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.

Deb Kapp

Riders said they were thrilled that someone had donated bananas at the museum when they stopped. They were surprised to learn that they had gone to that effort for the bikers. What started as a small, little welcome really blossomed into a marketing event.

Tyler Cowen

Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.

Guy Maddin

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

Jan Davis

Some growers have lost their entire banana plantations.

Tom Reilly

It seems to me that that is not blending in as much as it should or could with the surrounding homes.

Hubie Brown

He's really a major addition. He's playing extremely well, blending into the chemistry. We're learning where to play him and how to play him.

Cindy Fitzgerald

Our strength is individual talent. Our weakness - and it?s something we have to work on - is blending that talent into a team as strong as we can possibly be.

P. J. Harvey

Kids used to sit back and listen to lectures. Now they're leaning in. Body language has changed.

Veda Upanishads

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Richard Neal

I would submit to you today that this is the easiest thing in this body that could be done with Democrats and Republicans to simplify the Tax Code.

Wanda Davis

Just like small women do things, like do their hair or do their nails and buy nice clothes to make that small body look good, full-figured women can do the same thing.

Freddie Roach

Keep working that body and it's going to pay off. No single punches. He can't handle combinations.

Mike Sosnowski

John is the fastest player on the team. He has exceptional hands and will put a body on anybody.

Martha Hunt

I think it is really important to indulge on the holidays, I think that we all deserve that; I think that the more you worry, the more it's a problem. I think everyone's relationship with food is all about giving your body what it wants and what it needs. I think indulging is good and working out, too, for sure!

Christine Lahti

I also do push-ups when I can, but I normally don't work out my upper body except when I'm lifting my kids, which usually is enough!

Ben Elton

He lives on in an incomparable body of work which will continue to bring joy to millions.

Mario Cuomo

A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.

Carmen Miranda

More affectionate than a kiss is a well done hug in someone that you love. Have you ever notice how I can give delicious hugs?

Thomas Campbell

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.

Marcus Samuelsson

Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.

Irish Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

Russell Lynes

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Robin Williams

I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

Sarah Vowell

I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water'... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.

Samuel Johnson

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Vivian Stanshall

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

W. C. Fields

It's quite true I'm not drinking anymore; however, I'm not drinking any less either.

W. C. Fields

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

George Meredith

Sweet as Eden is the air, / And Eden-sweet the ray.

Dan Green

What we do not get are the names of those people peering out from those lush, green trees.

Bill Roberts

He was pretty green until we took him in down here,

Daryn Colledge

I don't know why we wore them. ... It shouldn't matter. We should be able to come out in green or pink and play football.

Wayne Smith

Had results been fair, it is possible that we may have even seen a different government. The Liberals, NDP and Greens represent a majority, and together they would have held a majority of seats.

Tracy Sutton

I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success and I am excited.

Dar Williams

The green world was . . . unpredictable and chaotic. It was an unmediated place literally represented by the forest, the wilderness, where you learned things you don't necessarily want to know about yourself.

Lindsey Graham

The green we're looking for today is not four-leaf clovers. For Ralph to be successful, he needs money.

Stephen Ames

The greens are actually firmer than the fairways.

Eric Rignot

The Greenland ice sheet's contribution to sea level is an issue of considerable societal and scientific importance.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Daniel Logan

I love being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

Katrina Kaif

Love should be all about giving and trusting.

Kate Bush

I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles.

Andy Serkis

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

John Stocco

He's a little out there. I love the guy, though.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Mary Badham

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Karen Ignagni

In many cases, the plans have negotiated lower rates than Medicaid with pharmaceutical companies.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Hector Elizondo

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

Travis Miner

After the play was over, she said she was having pains in her lower stomach. So I went and told the preacher.

Sen. Little

It's really unconscionable that it was as low as $4,600. I'm very pleased we were able to run this through.

Larry Hunter

Davidson is not one of those teams you want to be playing when you have a low seed.

Frank Hippel

That's probably the low end of the range.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Wordsworth

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Ben Sheets

I'm proud of myself because I didn't (overthrow), which normally 'stupid Ben' will do.

Mike Khayat

The true story rests with those people up there. We're just doing what we normally do. They did something unique.

Mitch Albom

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

John Kelley

People normally wouldn't do this but they have to come in.

Giovanni Trapattoni

We have to stop thinking about Sweden-Denmark. I'm sure they will play normally and honestly.

Ted White

The suspects had no idea who they were trying to rob.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

Nellie Bly

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Martin Amis

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

George Carlin

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

J. D. Salinger

And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)

Friedrich Nietzsche

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

Terry Francona

I can't tell you if, when or where I'll use him. This is an usual circumstance.

Raymond E. Feist

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

Vandana Shiva

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.