Famous Quotes & Sayings

Studs Terkel

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.

E. O. Wilson

That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.

Dorothy Dix

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Chuck Palahniuk

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Anne Tyler

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Angela Cartwright

Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.

Angela Kinsey

I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

Andrew Sullivan

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

Daniel Defoe

It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road.

Rusty Wallace

I've never seen it yet, so I'm going over to look at it. He's got it all done and it's for sale. The rest of the day, I might play nine holes of golf. Then, I'm going to have a nice early dinner at my favorite Italian joint.

Jane Addams

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

Red Buttons

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!

Ina Garten

I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.

Ward McAllister

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

Ernie Whitt

We had a nice dinner and a few ... ginger-ales.

Dan Meyer

Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

Garrick Phillips

We set the tone late in the first quarter and then more so in the second.

John Gibbons

We could probably use some of those later in the year.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

John Kilduff

There was a late wave a selling at the end of the day.

Randy Foye

Maybe he can do my laundry or go to Domino's late at night.

Lord Rings

Frodo: Your Late Gandalf: A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to

Frederick Oliver

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing late

James Stevens

If we are going to do it, we have to do it immediately, ... It is already late in the season to be doing any mosquito spraying.

Oscar Wilde

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.