Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Owens

As soon as she pulled up the picture, I knew it was Sommer. I went into my bedroom and kind of cried and Brittany and Sommer, they both talked to each other until about 2 in the morning on instant messages.

Tonight, when we were eating dinner, Marta said something that really knocked me for a loop. She said, ""I love carrots."" ""Good,"" I said as I gritted my teeth real hard. ""Then maybe you and carrots would like to go into the bedroom and have sex!"" They didn't, but maybe they will sometime, and I can watch.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)

Kathy Miles

But there was really one time when we called all the kids in the bedroom and said, 'This is what I think we're going to do.' That's when the decision was really made.

Christopher Fowler

My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.

Nigel Dennis

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

Jesse Ventura

I don't want a Democrat in the board room and I don't want a Republican in the bedroom, ... Democrats can't do business ... and all Republicans want to do is get in your bedroom and tell you what you should do in the privacy of your own home.

Lillian Too

I always tell people that it's not very good to put water features in a bedroom -- not even paintings of lakes and rivers -- because that could lead to losses, particularly financial losses. Sometimes it also leads to a loss in relationship.

Hisao Sato

Oil demand in the U.S., China and India is expected to rise further. Supplies, especially of sweet crude oil, will increase only slightly compared with the growth in demand.

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

Companies that rely on the Chinese market may suffer if China continues raising rates.

Liu Mingkang

the story I delivered to the public in China and outside of China is a story of 'never again.'

Rebecca MacKinnon

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

Joyce Ma

When I met her in Hong Kong I was very touched by how she welcomed the eastern culture to be her own. And she was there, not now when China is open, but when it was during the cultural revolution,

Chiang Kai-shek

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.

Jiang Xiaoyu

We want to convey the image of a China that is more open and that is making progress.

Pauline Frommer

You hear more and more about people going to China and not just to Beijing, but also to Shanghai. It's a place Americans should see. They're shaping up to be our big competitors.

Ekkehard Rathgeber

This year's China Open will be a great leap forward from last year as more world-class players have confirmed their participation.

Ed Howat

Sometimes there are problems, but when you compare us to our conference we are doing well. We just need to continue to get better.

Andre Agassi

Pretty amazing. I don't know if I can put in context how this compares with some of my greatest experiences on the tennis court, but I know it's right up there, because this is what you work so hard for.

Carl Smith

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ''It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they're jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Dan Hendricks

The Santa Anita Derby and Kentucky Derby are two totally different-run races, with a speed-biased track and short field compared with going back there with a 20-horse field and who knows what the pace scenario will be? This is a big race, a $750,000 Grade I. To win that would be a big deal. The Kentucky Derby is like a one-hand poker game. It's all in with whatever you've got. Whatever comes up comes up.

Hilary Zunin

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.

Kevin McCann

You really can't compare the two championships. These kids really worked hard for this and they deserved it.

David Morse

Young urbanites spend a lot of money--a lot more than they have. This generation is very, very materialistic compared to prior generations. It's not about spirituality and self-realization like the '60s. It's much more about having stuff as an expression of who you are as a person.

Johan Santana

At this point in the season, compared to a couple of years ago, I feel much better.

Malcolm Lowry

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Linda Sherry

Be prepared for some runaround when trying to find out the fees for foreign transactions. A lot of representatives don't have a clue, so you have to be persistent.

Madeline Albright

But we have to do it in some way that does not harm our overall foreign policy interests,

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Bob Doll

Without question, foreign stock markets are doing better than the U.S. market.

Bill Plympton

I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.

John Vessey

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Victoria Clarke

I don't think it's ever been about Cheney's staff. It's about him. Cheney's influence has always been his own.

Jim Craig

My views may have had some influence ... But their views have influenced me as well,

Bill Crawford

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.

Vicky Rideout

I think parents' media use is probably an important influence on kids' media use.

Jaime King

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

Rob Portman

We should not be lowering the expectations, nor lowering the ambitions in the round, ... Hong Kong is not the end of process.

Richard Norton Smith

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

Jean Cocteau

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

George Herbert

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Jules Renard

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Dean Ryan

Sale were smarter and sharper than us but they lacked our power.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

George Stephen

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Alec Baldwin

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Anne Sexton

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Anthony Hopkins

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.