Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Richelle Mead

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

Richelle Mead

Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

Willie Aames

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

William Mathews

So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.

William Wordsworth

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

William Wordsworth

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

William Wordsworth

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

Michel de Montaigne

And not to serve for a table-talk.

James A. Garfield

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

Hillary Clinton

I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

Ethel Merman

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

Erma Bombeck

I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

Lori Crunk

I would think that being up here three times in the last four years now would be an advantage because our girls know what to expect. Our girls have had success in this building. Michelle (Mabry) shot the ball very well here last year and so this is also an advantage.

H. Hart

It appears to be a case of taking advantage of the fact that the vault door is open. It could be an attempt to make a relatively small-scale repair into a major renovation project under the guise of an emergency.

Dan Marino

I always felt that we had an advantage playing at the Orange Bowl.

Gary Anders

Having the No.1 seed in a five-team district has a distinct advantage. That's something we're shooting for. Hopefully the kids will understand the importance of that.

Ann McInerney

Going into playing the top three teams, we need to really make sure we put our best foot forward and take advantage of the strengths we have as a team. We are going to face a lot more athleticism in Hartford and then again in the rivalry with Boston University.

Source Unknown

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

Joe Sacco

For me, one advantage of comic journalism is that I can depict the past, which is hard to do if you're a photographer or filmmaker.

Richard Dracott

I think you're going to see greater data flow, but the competitive advantage is going to be how you're going to use that knowledge flow.

Tobey Maguire

I think women have the advantage over men - they tend to be much more in touch with their feelings and understand the dynamics of how relationships work. Men are much more cold-blooded and less willing to explore what makes a marriage or a relationship work. We like to deal in results and women are interested primarily in the process of the relationship, the little things which are actually the basics of how men and women interact.