Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?

Flip Murray

It is sort of a different lineup, maybe not one we'd use all the time. But I think I can play any role coach asks of me.

Mark Phillips

It is very fair, but asks questions all the way.

Kevin Bankston

Our goal is to go after the people who are making the government's illegal surveillance possible. They could not do what they are doing without the help of companies like AT&T. We want to make it clear to AT&T that it is not in their legal or economic interests to violate the law whenever the president asks them to.

Jamie Dixon

Our family thanks everyone for their support and prayers and asks for their continued respect and privacy.

Des Browne

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Jennifer Rodriguez

What my family did for me, I hope that I am the outcome of that, that I am the success story of that.

Lisa Hark

We give them about 30 recipes. Of that, each family seems to find about 15 that they stick with.

John Graler

We knew he couldn't go unless a family member went.

David Bell

Twenty-five has been a number that has been important to me my whole life. It's important to me because my family is important to me.

Dan Savage

To keep the peace, I do show things to my family before they come out, ... It's like a 'heads up, here's what I'm writing. If you really have a problem with it or you're never going to talk to me again, give me a call.'

Stephanie Coontz

You have to make a family where you can find it.

Henry Lee

You have an obligation to yourself and your family to haul ass and get out of here, and I'm telling you to get out now,

Jean Paul

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Jerome K. Jerome

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

James A. Baldwin

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James A. Baldwin

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.

Jackie Robinson

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Eva Longoria

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

Estelle Parsons

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Evita Peron

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

Mithun Chakraborty

It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.

Mitt Romney

I support the work of the NRA, but disagree sometimes.

Publilius Syrus

What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

Leonardo da Vinci

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

Learned Hand

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

Lauren Weisberger

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

George Canning

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?