Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Bible Bible

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Robert Burton

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore

Robin McKinley

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Sue Davis

Father Grace has shown up for 'Pray for Snow' parties.

Poncho Sanchez

I started on timbales. I had a friend who had a little Latin jazz band. His father made the timbales for us, so I learned to play on them.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Tom Odell

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Reggie Sanders

Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

Bobby Cox

Boyer has been up four times now, and he's fine.

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Mark Holmes

It was a culmination of several weeks of work and several months of research.

Loreen Hewitt

It will probably take him three months to recover.

Bob Honts

They were months overdue, so I was about to sue them.

Dwayne Roloson

I've got two or three months in the summertime for that.

Powers Boothe

I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Sherilyn Fenn

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

Tionne Watkins

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

Mike Tyson

I am not a role model.

May Sarton

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Ned Yost

I said, don't worry about it. He's only going to throw about 50 pitches. That's about six innings, and then he'll be done.

Tim Healy

That's the most assists we've had in six games.

Mike Shanahan

I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Ray Waddell

There is no substitute for the live experience,

Andrew Carnegie

Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"

Andre Gide

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Patti Page

The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but...

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Carol Kennedy

It was just so wonderful to go down there and be of some help.

Katherine Paterson

It was a wonderful way to be awakened.