Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jools Oliver

People pick up on some bits of the book in particular, like the bit about Jamie's sperm,

Ken Park

The World Almanac' tells about the world. Maybe the little bits are trivia, in and of themselves, but the more you know about that, the more you know about the world.

Ellen Klages

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Tom Wilkinson

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Jenson Button

DR was definitely the front man but we needed a guy that was there 24-7 for the team and not doing other bits and pieces as well. Nick is doing a fantastic job, for me everyone is a lot closer. There is definitely a good spirit.

Joanna Lumley

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

Bette Midler

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

Jan Hammer

Maybe there'll be new bits of music that will start showing up. You know? Like what happened in the 60s. Everything just broke wide open. Music started getting connected between Jazz and Rock and Pop. Everything was wide open, there was much more freedom. Hopefully something like that will happen again.

James Bell

I don't think we're going to see the traditional recovery - it may come in bits and spurts,

Cecil Frank Powell

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Bible Bible

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

Arthur Doyle

Is it not? Is it not? Breadth of view, my dear Mr. Mac, is one of the essentials of our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.

Peter Greene

That's why you get this blas? effect, ... The breadth is flat so it's really one of those days where it's not really exciting.

Kourtney Kardashian

My mom fed us a lot of processed food when we were kids, like chicken fingers, grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas. I make those treats for my family, too, but I use organic cheeses and whole wheat bread and tortillas.

Dan Ariely

Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't any money. Every day I would have to raise chicken and bread and broccoli and go ahead and spend all my time trading. So, money is a wonderful mechanism.

Elizabeth Scott

I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.

Billy Bragg

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

Donna Reed

Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor.

Gary Campbell

Coaches are usually defensive minded anyway. I've always built the defense starting with the middle linebacker.

Carolyn Strauss

The show has built momentum with our subscribers and with the critics.

Peter Graf

These composite apps are built around the user and are instantly usable, ... All of these are add-ons. You don't need to touch your existing stuff, and you don't need to be all SAP.

Greg Wise

I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming off it.

Charles Smith

The wind industry has been built up to a critical mass.

Alan Gell

They actually owe me a refund now. I overpaid without realizing it. This is all from old taxes, it's not from the last year or so, it's just built up over time. As far as I know everything is clear now.

Paul Chryst

The way (Alvarez) built this program, it speaks volumes. What I think is pretty neat is that he did it his way. There's a lot to learn from that. He does a great job of communicating.

Jason Calacanis

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

Rachel Sklar

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Margaret Johnston

Personally I am haunted by the irony that someone like Sheila, whose message to the world was all about nurturing, could have a child who would shoot her.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

National Center

So that's a very good reminder to all of us that we need to teach our children as soon as they can talk,

Sabrina Parker

Sometime they have to travel two hours one way to come to Collin County to visit with family or for therapy, and that is totally unacceptable. Not only do these children need homes, they need homes in Colin County. We ideally want to place all the siblings in one home.

Mark Gatiss

'Son of Frankenstein' is never talked about in the same tone as James Whale's 1931 'Frankenstein.' But it should be. It was Boris Karloff's last appearance in the Frankenstein series and stars Donnie Dunagan, then a child actor.

Lucy Norvell

Sometimes children are ready to go before their parents are ready to send them.

Susan Castro

Sometimes children are afraid, thinking if this could happen to her, it could happen to me.

Chuck D.

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not - even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian - it's only a matter of time ... As far as I can tell, the nicest thing you can say about children is that they haven't done anything terrible yet.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Wes Walz

Randy complements our line. He sees the ice really well. When the puck comes around the wall, he's got a good set of hands. He can get a lot of loose pucks out to Gabby.

Matt Miller

Ralph is a good and honorable man and we recognize all the good he has done. But we also recognize that it is time to move forward.

Ted McIntyre

Rawlings threw really well. That was really good to see. She pitched strong and really looked comfortable out there.

Robert Friedland

Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.

Tetsu Emori

Production in the Gulf has risen dramatically and refinery input has also risen, these are good selling factors.

David Hemmings

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.

Guillaume Duchesne

Profits have been good and are lifting stocks.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Shani Davis

This is awesome. After all the controversy and tension at the Olympics, I wanted to show people at home that my priority is skating.

Pat McCrory

This is home to the drivers, and there's no place like home." ()

Ann East

This is home for us. We are not going anywhere. We may be down, but we're not out.

Tiffany Burt

This is great. I'm so excited. We're home and we're playing Mid-Con teams. Life couldn't be better. Softball is so fast-paced and intimate, and people are going to love this team.

Phillip Clark

This is going to be home for a while,

Archie Panjabi

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Ayelet Waldman

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

Ayn Rand

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

Brenda Ueland

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Andy Goldsworthy

The early firings contained many stones.

Anne Sexton

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

Claire Danes

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Corey Taylor

But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.

Alice Hoffman

I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

Vanessa Paradis

I don't like things set in stone.

Neil Gaiman

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

Peer Steinbruck

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Michael Hastings

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Richard Butler

After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.