Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

C. S. Lewis

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

Cecelia Ahern

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Cecelia Ahern

Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own, learning that I don’t have the answers to everything. And the moment a child begins to understand that, you know you’re in trouble.

Cecelia Ahern

I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. I’ve met some great guys here, but I didn’t grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I don’t feel like they are real friends. I haven’t kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or laughed my heart out as their stomachs were pumped. It’s kind of hard to beat that.

Cecelia Ahern

She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and that someone else would take care of everything. How easy life would be without having grown-up problems to worry about. And then she could grow up all over again...

Stewart Davis

The police can't do anything unless they (catch them in the act).

John Blair

The police are trying to make or rewrite the law.

Rene Lavigne

That was a thankful sight, when we saw the police helicopter.

Ann Robertson

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.

John Hamm

That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,

Paul Michael Glaser

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Nancy Bray

We got tired of watching him, and we called police.

Kathy Valentine

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Bill Burton

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

H. Hart

We just didn't finish. That's been our problem all year.

Lydia Parnes

We're really not here saying that the spam problem is solved. What we're saying is that we're making progress.

Mark Harmsen

We have had so many problems in our district.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Hilary Clinton

Why would you put all your C-130s in a place with weather problems?

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Ashton Kutcher

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Travis Parker

Wherever he's at, we just got to find him.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Zachary Quinto

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.