Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spanish Proverb

He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden

Michael Shaw

You don't know what a fanatic Judy Garland fan or an Oz fanatic is capable of. They think they want to have them, even if they have to keep them at some sort of twisted altar someplace down in the basement.

David Poland

Basically, every movie has to come and bow at the altar of the Golden Globes.

Jack Moran

I'm a lacrosse player and I'm not rowdy. I was an altar boy, The kids here know the difference between what's on the field and off.

William A. Ward

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity.

Cynthia Ozick

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.

Iris Apfel

My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was a child of the Depression, so she taught me all about accessories, and I always tell everybody she worships at the altar of the accessory.

Stephen Mangan

My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.

Jon Hamm

I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own.

Marina Tortorello

It's something people don't see normally. To see people dressed up in that time period and using the tools and techniques is very interesting.

Kishore Biyani

It's not so easy to get people in smaller towns to spend money, but they still come to the store, all dressed up with their families. It's an outing for them.

Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Colin Firth

Something about being given that microphone and if you're dressed right and the spotlights are on you, how can you not play that stuff?

Jimmy Barnes

This is the ARIAs. What am I getting dressed up for?

Monique Lhuillier

Ever since I was a little girl, I always loved fashion. I would watch my mother get dressed and suggest things she should wear.

Michael Tigar

dressed the way he would be when he was selling real estate, when he was the manager of a farm co-op, when he was doing many of other responsible jobs he's held during his life. What you see is who he is.

Green Day

Billie Joe: What do you mean we walked around dressed like girls? They were our own clothes, they just happened to be dresses...

Robert Jordan

I was like 'We're going to need you, keep your head up.' It was more him getting comfortable. Everybody knows he can play ball.

Ronnie Anderson

Kitchens are forevermore an integral part of the home. Everybody wants larger kitchens and they are willing to spend more money on better appliances.

Dave Meade

Jaclyn had a good game for us. Everybody played well and got a lot of playing time.

James Devlin

I would see everybody outside playing one-on-one, so I went out and started playing. I've been playing ever since.

Judy Rose

I would say to them like everybody else that loses their jobs, look for better employment.

Eric Meister

He is really a good passing big man. Whenever he gets doubled on his drives, he knows where everybody is and he's good at dishing off.

Larry Brown

He is one of the few people that I don't have to worry about his workmanship. If everybody did the quality of work that Earl did, we would have a different society than we have. And he's not going to retire before he does my screen closure.

Tony MacAulay

Guys wanted it to be the game-winner. I?m just real happy for Seamus, and so is everybody else. That?s what makes our team come together.

Stephen Colbert

I have tender feelings for Nixon because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn't like the Watergate trials 'cause they interrupted 'The Munsters.'

Ronan Farrow

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

Cassandra Clare

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Joseph Cook

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Manners form the great charm of women.

Darren Criss

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Tom Robbins

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Wallace Stegner

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Zoe Wanamaker

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Zaha Hadid

When I taught, all my best students were women.

Jonathan Swift

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Jodi Picoult

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

Jurgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Oprah Winfrey

Life has taught me to just be the best I can be.