Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Quant

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

William Shenstone

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Ada Leverson

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Jim Hightower

His aunt lives right down the street from school and he had been to STM before as a player in our Sunkist basketball tournament, ... He showed up the morning of our Labor Day practice.

Heather Mazarakos

I miss my aunt and my uncle very much and there are not enough words to express how much they mean to me.

David Marschall

Initially, we wanted to make sure that, if the storm continued on a path toward New Orleans and the smart thing was to evacuate, my 80-something-year-old aunt knew she could come to Baton Rouge. These evacuations are necessary every few years, and, in fact, my aunt came to Baton Rouge last September during a storm that came near New Orleans.

Marcel Proust

The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.

Kelley Armstrong

Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked. He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good." Chloe and Derek

Sue Phillips

It's been a fabulous experience for me. I get the middle-of-the-night calls at 3 in the morning telling their Aunt Sue they won (their regional) and they're coming. They keep in touch with me throughout the year, too.

Stephen Harper

I actually think the (U.S.) ambassador's intervention was inappropriate... I don't think foreign ambassadors should be expressing their views, or intervening in an election.

Doug Armstrong

He knows we like him. He's been here for a number of years, and I've tried to express to him that I've been one of his stronger supporters over that time. Nothing to me has changed. When the time comes and he wants to stay here, we'll talk to him.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Q-Tip

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

Stan Williams

Guys don't have very many ways to express themselves. Facial hair is equated with masculinity, and men's fashion is very masculine right now. They also make younger guys look older.

E. B. White

We think gene expression is a major part of what separates chimps and humans.

Cecilia Munoz

We are expressing our hopes that the Senate will do something different.

Marek Rupar

It is something I can do to express myself. It is something I am good at.

John Bradshaw

I think it was a very worthwhile meeting. I feel we learned a lot and I feel we had the opportunity to express our opinions.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Humpy Wheeler

We are going to remold the track to take some of the meanness out of it.

Glenn Geffner

There are so many variables. These numbers mean nothing when they're announced.

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Steve Ralston

I was in the right place at the right time . . . if I had missed that one, it would have been embarrassing,

Dinara Safina

I think I played well today. I just missed some really important shots.

Thomas Ken

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

Jeff Burton

He said it in a way that you couldn't miss it.

Buck Showalter

He's a treasure. Every day that passes, we realize how much we miss him.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

John Shadegg

I think we need an idea person. It's something we've been missing for a long time.

Claude Tarver

I think a lot of them are wondering if they may have missed out on him.

Kitty Wright

I think a lot of people misunderstood, (thinking) that they were going to be there forever. Now that they're gone, they're missing them.

Robert Cormier

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Russell B. Long

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

Woody Guthrie

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

Woody Allen

As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

Sarah Silverman

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

Tucker Carlson

Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.

Sara Gruen

He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter...

Walker Percy

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

Rodney Dangerfield

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.