Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

Isabella Bird

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.

William Cavendish

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

Ellen G. White

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

Esther Rolle

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.

David A. Bednar

We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.

Brian Bell

Truthfully, we don't want my Weezer affiliation to have any bearing on whether someone likes us or not. It's an entirely different thing. The Space Twins have our own chemistry.

John C. Calhoun

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

Ashton Kutcher

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

Tony Pina

We came out boom, boom, boom and scored three runs real quick. For them to respond that way knowing they weren't playing real well, that's what good teams do.

Paul Eenhoorn

There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it that. And I think 'Martin Bonner' showed what's possible. Later in life, when you've been working at something for a long time, to actually get some kudos for what you do is wonderful.

Philip Hammond

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

Steven Wieting

We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in consumer spending.

Matt Thornhill

Those cars have boomer sensibilities in how they're designed.

Laisenia Qarase

We are in the midst of the greatest investment boom Fiji has ever seen.

Mike Russell

We're booming right now. The warm temperature is bringing them on, so there's lots of strawberries out there.

Paul Fassinger

We're not really talking about boom times by the bay. We're talking slow to moderate growth, but in the normal range of things.

John Galbraith

On the first of January of 1929, as a simple matter of probability, it was most likely that the boom would end before the year was out, ... The market wouldn't level out; it would fall precipitately.

Clive Thompson

There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

Rhonda Yates

The police called me at the restaurant and said his car was still in the garage. I told them that if his car was there, he was there, and they busted down his door.

Brunello Cucinelli

In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.

Beverly Cleary

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

Marshawn Lynch

You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.

Cheryl Burnett

We were still within shouting distance. And then of course they busted it open.

Dusty Baker

Today was kind of a flat day after the guys have been busting it. Guys are dragging a little bit.

Carlai Moore

We've had busted lips, stitches to the head. But that's what makes it fun. We know at the end of the day we worked hard.

Tyler Reed

We're working really hard. I think we came together a lot this week at practice, and we really busted our butt this week trying to get better, and I think we showed some improvements.

Chino Moreno

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

David Hewson

In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.

C. S. Lewis

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

Cecelia Ahern

I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

Craig Thompson

Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don't think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity.

William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle in the water

Max Gillespie

His name in football circles in Hampton Roads is well-respected.

David Amram

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

Billy Graham

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Ezra Taft Benson

Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.

Michael Moore

He has the funniest lines in the film. I am eternally grateful to him. (on President Bush)

Lord Alfred Tennyson

He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power.

William James

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

William James

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

David Green

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

Kelly Clark

I found out there is a lot more joy and hope and eternal things in the world than snowboarding.

Charles Baudelaire

Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?

Scott Reed

The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it.

Cecelia Ahern

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Carrie Fisher

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Carrie Fisher

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

Carrie Fisher

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

Aaron Gray

That was a tough game. We played real hard. The shots just weren't falling tonight. It just wasn't our night.

Todd MacCulloch

That would have been nice. But the guy is falling down. I think Pat might have thought he couldn't even get the shot off. You don't want to foul. I thought that time was going to run out sooner.

Raquel Welch

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

Idris Elba

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Ian Mckellen

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Kevin Garnett

That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you.

Laurent Gbagbo

We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,

Reid Scott

One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Sepp Blatter

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

Bill Vaughan

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

Sean O'Faolain

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

Colin Mochrie

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

Nate Silver

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

Mark Twain

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Eugene Ionesco

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

David Eddings

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Greg Rusedski

(John) McEnroe sees him in the top 20, I see him getting into the top 50 and then the top 20.

Bob Harris

Well, I think everyone kind of sees us as the sheriff, you know.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Jack Nance

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Alejandro Fernandez

It's not completely to his liking, but what else can he do now that he sees I was right?

Anthony Hemingway

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

Nate Burleson

It was tough for him. When Superman sees Kryptonite for the first time, it's shocking.

Georges Bizet

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

Oliver Goldsmith

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Honore de Balzac

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Michelle Moran

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

George Herbert

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

Virgil

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched