Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Cooper

My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

Gail Devers

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

Jennifer Hudson

My family always says my voice is a gift—a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson. My sister and I used to joke that the 'Kates' in our family got all the talent.

Greg Fitzsimmons

I called my grandmother yesterday. She picks up the phone, 'Oh hello, dear, hold on a second, I just stepped out of the shower. Let me go put some clothes on.' I said, 'Hey Grandma, don't ever tell me you're naked again. Go put a lot of clothes on. Then put some more clothes on. I'm going to sit here and drink and try to forget you naked in my head.' I'll never eat raisins again.

Janet Evanovich

Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.

Janet Evanovich

You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.

Janet Evanovich

You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!

Janet Evanovich

I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur

Susan B. Anthony

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Douglas William Jerrold

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Richard Bach

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Sophia Loren

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

Sophie Kinsella

This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels

Tammin Sursok

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

Swami Vivekananda

"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste." Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu.

John Steinbeck

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

Maya Angelou

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

Boz Scaggs

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Carol Burnett

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.

Alan Lightman

It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

Miley Cyrus

I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

Dean Koontz

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

Daniel Handler

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

Coco Chanel

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.