Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zaha Hadid

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

Ezra Taft Benson

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

Neon Hitch

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.

Rebecca Ferguson

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

Patricia MacLachlan

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

Marc Morial

You are demonstrating here in Houston that you are willing to be your brothers and sisters' keepers in a time of need,

Jalal Talabani

You and your (Kurdish) brothers are the heroes of liberating Iraq,

Ryan Stiles

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Lee Evans

My brothers were staying at my house, so I hired them on to help me, ... You have to help people when you can.

Yanis Varoufakis

My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Imelda May

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

Ian Mckellen

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

Gilbert Hernandez

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

Donald Trump

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Beeban Kidron

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

Nicolas Roeg

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

Chris Gaynor

We played our hearts out. It was just like last year's game with Gonzaga, except this one hurts even worse because we were this much closer.

Raymond Carver

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

Rebecca Solnit

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

Mark Zuckerberg

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Patrick Modiano

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

Patrick Chappatte

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Paul Auster

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Darren Mathews

We need to have these kinds of games to prepare us for late in the season.

Tom Typrowicz

We could lose a million games and I wouldn't care. I want these young ladies to leave these games knowing what life is about and what it's going to take.

Brett Tomko

We can't let these opportunities slip away. Before we know it, we're going to be out of games. This next series is huge. If we can take three, then we've got a shot.

Tim Brasic

We can't let guys come in here and do what they're doing to us at home. Our last two home games have been just embarrassing.

Erich Leinsdorf

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Agnes Obel

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Jeff Ulbrich

Last year, we introduced the 3-4, but at the same time, we retained all our 4-3 calls, we practiced them. It was kind of always like, I don't know if it was inevitable, but it kind of seemed like that at times, that we were going to go back.

Kathryn Lasky

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm going to make sure that it will be introduced again. ... And I know the legislators don't like it, but I will keep pushing.

Cameron Mackintosh

I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

John Hurt

Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

Martin Seligman

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

John Szabo

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

Irwin Thomas

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

Robert Hunter

We can share what we got of yours'Cause we done shared all of mine

J. C. Watts

Most of the compositions (on the album) are originals of mine or tunes that I really like to play.

William Shakespeare

Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.

Geddy Lee

Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.

Frank Holmes

Those miners who are hedged are put in the penalty box.

Bill Dee

I was real proud of him. I told him his overall win percentage is better than mine now.

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Troy Williamson

For real? Wow. That's crazy. Nah, I'm going to keep mine and put it in my house.

John Neff

(We can put together something) for any occasion you'd want to give a gift,

John Collins

On occasion during cross-examination, the defendant was tearful and perhaps remorseful.

Chosun Ilbo

For the sake of the remaining two years of his administration, Roh should seize the occasion to find a replacement for the man.

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

Michael Starke

I thought we rose to the occasion and played well.

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

Evan Snapper

But there are occasions when separate filings make more sense. For example, when one taxpayer has lot of itemized deductions and the other taxpayer has very little income.