Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Paul Rudd

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

Vic Peters

It is nice to have that. Donnie Nelson was saying he's usually the villain so he thought this was great.

Maggie Erlenbaugh

Megan Nelson was in a new position (libero) and made some stellar plays on defense.

James Best

The movie has four-letter words in it. You've got Willie Nelson playing Uncle Jesse, smoking dope? That's not 'Dukes of Hazzard.' It should have been 'Jackass 2,'

Dan Jenkins

I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

Bill Vaughan

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

Bill Vaughan

Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

Bill Hicks

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

Mike Marsden

I do not support a total smoking ban.

David Sedaris

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

Cesare Pavese

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Charles Dickens

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

Charles Lamb

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Charles Lamb

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

William Shakespeare

LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

William Shakespeare

This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

William Shakespeare

There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

Djuna Barnes

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form ...

David Amram

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

David Amram

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

David Suzuki

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

Catherine Bell

I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

Charles Dickens

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Lee Brice

Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.

Duggar Baucom

We were (5-2) with Willie in the lineup.

David Wright

That's one thing I really appreciated. Willie had my back.

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it.

Irina Slutskaya

I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it.

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Bruce Bennett

He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.