Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron McGruder

Ultimately I think everyone draws their own line of what's shocking and what is inappropriate in different places. For you, some 10-year-old kids talking about hoes may not (be) that big of a deal. But someone out there is gonna flip. There's no way to know. So I just try to deliver an amusing and decent story and leave the shock and the awe to whatever people have in their own heads.

Mark Rowen

We believe we're moving ever closer to the light at the end of the valuation tunnel on eBay. We find it interesting and amusing to note that as investors' risk/reward ratio had dramatically improved, the market has become increasingly jittery about the future prospects for eBay.

Robert Thompson

And the most amusing thing is when they would start behaving as if this were the Super Bowl.

Jeffrey Brown

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

James Laver

The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time.

James Laver

The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, OutrT (daring) 1 year before its time, Smart, Dowdy 1 year after its time, Hideous 20 years after its time, Ridiculous 20 years after its time, Amusing 30 years after its time, Quaint 50 years after its time, Charming 70 years after its time, Romantic 100 years after its time, Beautiful 150 years after its time.

Richard Wilkinson

Flower Mound took their amusing dog and pony show on the road to outlying communities last night, ... The dog got shot and they were barbequing the pony as I left.

David Elliott

fell for Peter Lorre on screen when he made suave simpering so amusing in 'The Maltese Falcon.'

Gary Stern

What I find very amusing is they're still using machines that have not been proven in any court of law. That they are actually reliable in measuring speed.

Dave Craig

I was looking (but not seriously) for a building to expand my . . . book business. I saw this beautiful building for the first time. I peered through every window I could . . . It was love at first sight.

Laura Bush

I think it is one of the most beautiful Christmas trees I've ever seen.

Gwen Harris

Here it's raining, but when we go north for a meet it's sunny and beautiful and we're running well and jumping well and throwing well.

Granth Sahib

Haven't you heard the call from beyond, O beautiful soul-bride? You must go to your in-laws; you cannot stay with your parents forever.

Conrad Lautenbacher

Hawaii is in a very strategic location and unfortunately that strategic location brings a great deal of marine debris to the wonderful, beautiful shores that we treasure.

Joe Taslim

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

Diego Maradona

He's a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

Bruce Iglauer

His truly beautiful voice and melodic, understated guitar style contrasted dramatically with the more rough and raucous blues and blues-rock that came before him.

Russell Crowe

He's gonna travel with me, ... A Beautiful Mind.

John Rodriguez

Just the way they were jumping around, it was like they were going to the World Series. Don't count your chickens because all of them might not be hatched.

Brent Guy

John Chick makes a play every day, somewhere. That's going to be one of our better personnel moves.

Larry Brown

He's a Chicago kid. That team had a great future. I don't know if it's ever easy being traded. My hope is that this is a good situation for him.

Maurice Cheeks

I thought Chicago had more energy, that's for sure.

Paul Greening

The people who aren't going to vote aren't going to vote if you give them two months. But if you have any kind of political organization, this is a political gold mine. If you are a well-organized township or Chicago ward, you can get a good chunk of your vote way before the election.

Andrew Bogut

We've got to win. These are our rivals, New Jersey, Chicago and Philly.

Ron Jones

I actually, as a child, always wanted to own my own steak house. I started out that way and like I said, I'll always have a steak around. I usually will have chicken or a steak on the grill because I love grilling.

Nick Hornby

I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.

Brad Hopkins

I am in year 13. There is no spring chicken in this guy right here, and I understand the nature of the game. I understand it is a young man's game. It is just a matter of whether they want to go with the young guys. Maybe they let me ride off into the sunset.

Jeff Trumbauer

He was a guy where we weren't daring him to shoot, but he wasn't probably the most threatening guy on the floor. He did a nice job and hit some big shots.

Bayard Taylor

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Chameka Scott

Any other night, that's who we wanted shooting it. We were daring her to shoot it all night, anyway.

Tasha Smith

President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.

Kourtney Kardashian

I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.

Gitesh Pandya

This year a lot of the winning films have subject matter that isn't necessarily mainstream. It's daring studios and filmmakers to make these films.

Theodore Roosevelt

It's not the critic who counts.

George W. Bush

This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

Graham Greene

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Bob Hartley

We're playing with passion. These guys never quit. We're seeing within our dressing room guys committed, playing sick, and hurt.

Laugh, clown, laugh. This is what I tell myself whenever I dress up like Bozo.

Eric Lindros

I can honestly say there isn't a guy in the dressing room who doesn't respect Pat.

Clint Stoerner

I am disappointed. It's tough competing, and it is tough to show out when you don't even dress out.

Rita Wilson

He was the first to dress stars - even before I married Tom, and that is 19 years ago.

Joe DiMuro

He may not dress like a surfboarder or skateboarder. But he can communicate like one.

Barry Hyman

Today is the next to last day of the quarter and window dressing gets more aggressive.

Richelle Mead

Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her days examining fabric swatches for bridesmaid dresses and going on about how in love she is. This usually causes Agent Boring Borscht to regale us with stories of Russian weddings that are even more boring than his usual ones. My attempts at escape have been thwarted thus far. Also, I am out of cigarettes. Any assistance or tobacco products you can send will be greatly appreciated. -Prisoner 24601

Venus Williams

I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

Bill Clinton

Recovery is going to take years. Fifty thousand people are still living in tents. I hope you will think of them.

Jules Verne

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

Penelope Cruz

In 'Twice Born' I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, I had some prosthetics; it was interesting to see how I'm going to look when I'm fifty-five or so. I actually saw similarities between my grandmothers and my mother.

Toby Keith

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'

Bobby Heenan

Its amazing that Lou Ferrigno can talk with fifty pounds of cracker in his mouth.

Bible Bible

Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.

M. C. Escher

I've been doing this kind of work for over fifty years now, and nothing in this strange and frightening world seems more pleasant to me.

Benito Mussolini

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes

Sharon Stone

You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.

Dan Reynolds

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

S. Walker

Just under ten seconds...call it nine point five in round figures.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Bobby Frankel

He couldn't have rode a better race, ... She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire.

Jim Courier

He'll be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Mike Madden

He literally, probably stood there in shock for about four or five minutes.

Samuel Beckett

How hideous is the semicolon.

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Steve Bruce

The kick in the teeth was the hideous mistake we made in conceding that first goal.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Noam Chomsky

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Rachel Perry

I didn't think I was hideous or anything.

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Jeffrey Sharon

I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they'd trade.

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

Wilson Mizner

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Marc Bulger

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

Neil Davidson

It's not a particularly profitable business. There are a hundred other things (where) American investors can put their money to better use and more profitable use.

Laurence Sterne

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Fernando Ferrer

I think this is the most indecent thing I have seen in my public life that spans 25 years.

Howard Stern

You've got to be kidding me, ... How am I indecent in Miami, but I'm not indecent in (Fort Myers)?

Danielle Harris

I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.

Richelle Mead

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Ruben Studdard

Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.

Virginia Woolf

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Woody Allen

Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes.

Robert C. Solomon

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Richard Dawkins

I love romantic poetry.

Salma Hayek

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

Waylon Jennings

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Gil Haskell

He's a tenacious competitor. He's a fly-around, knock-you-down kind of guy. He's really a hellacious player.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

Mary Roach

All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.

Tullian Tchividjian

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Venus Williams

I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.

Venus Williams

To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

Venus Williams

The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress.

Sarah MacLean

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon

Marcia Angell

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

Theophilus London

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

Mike Meador

Thirty years is a long time to do anything.

Stephen Colbert

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.