Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natasha Trethewey

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Brian Moehler

We're going to make mistakes. That's just the way it is. Hopefully you learn from those mistakes and don't make them as frequently as the year goes on.

Charles Dickens

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

Robert Burke

They're shopping like women -- more frequently and impulsively.

Harry Blackmun

Controversy over the meaning of our nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent,

George Gershwin

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

Robert Waters

I guess I'll just have to stop more frequently to get fuel little by little.

Gary Sheffield

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

Seth Shostak

A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Steve Huling

We have to find some high jumpers. We graduated two seniors who did very well.

Scott Hall

We would require more of students to graduate than traditional public schools.

Solange Knowles

We are already paying bills, having responsibilities most people don't have even when they're 24 and haven't graduated from college.

Heather Williams

A lot of graduate students have no idea that they can even get money from the SA.

Tad Decker

This guy graduated with honors from Penn State in communications. We were very lucky to get this guy.

Thomas Vilsack

For in our high schools today,a young person can graduate from most of our high schools with but two years of math and two years of science.

Gifford Pinchot

It means that the market for our graduates is getting much, much better.

Donna Brown

This is the last year for the kids there (who will graduate from Grand Ridge), we wanted to do something for them also.

Jon Mattheiss

There was a lot of pressure on us tonight. We went up their last year and lost. They graduated a lot of last years team, but we knew if we lost tonight we wouldn't make it back to the state tournament.

Gifford Pinchot

It means that the market for our graduates is getting much, much better.

John Calipari

I second the motion. His record is spotless. He graduates every kid. He doesn't look at other women. He doesn't smoke.

Eric Shelton

You're sending out graduates who might not be industry-ready.

Dolly Parton

I'll never graduate from collagen.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

Ivy Lee

We don't have high school graduates teaching our kids.

Ralph Holmes

It's Stonewall Jackson High School graduates helping the middle school. We want to help the middle school and help the West Side become the ?best side' again.

Tom Joyce

It was never intended to be a refinancing bonanza. It was never intended to be a windfall for graduates who have already benefited from the taxpayer subsidies of the Stafford program.

Louisa May Alcott

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Matt Millen

We started off the season with high expectations,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Madeleine Albright

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

William Mosher

Whether the levels (of condom use) are high enough is for others to judge. But I think it's at least encouraging.

Jonathan Davies

When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner, so I wasn't accepted.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Eartha Kitt

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

Burl Cain

We have to have a jail or we can't ever restore order and rebuild the city.

Chen Guangcheng

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Charles Manson

I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.

Charles Manson

I am not in jail. There is no jail.

Ed Koch

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

Ed Koch

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Eliza Dushku

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

Chelsea Handler

Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Chris Carmack

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

Chingy

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

Chita Rivera

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

Chip Conley

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

Eddie Murphy

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

Eddie Murphy

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

Dean Cain

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Daymond John

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Hugh Johnson

They tend to be like sheep. They are followers. It's called piling on in football, and I think it's the equivalent. It's unprecedented.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Ezra Taft Benson

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Colton Haynes

I used to do a lot of yoga, but I tend to lose a lot of weight when I do that.

Louise Nurding

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.