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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

C. S. Lewis

We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?

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.

Blair Underwood

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

Diane Cilento

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Desi Arnaz

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Brian Tracy

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Jane Hirshfield

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Goodall

Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.

Benjamin Disraeli

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Richard Bentley

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself

Bob Bradley

I still think it will happen. I think this was a little setback but there's no reason why he can't push himself forward.

Mike Trapasso

Justin wasn't trying to overpower people and get strikeouts. He had to stay within himself and learned that.

David Bookbinder

He prides himself on reading laws narrowly. He loves it. He thinks his job is to read laws as narrowly as possible.

Clive Lloyd

If he doesn't respect me he should at least respect the position (of match referee), but he made matters worse for himself with his dismissive and rude attitude.

Martin Lewis

He smokes and quits for himself and I smoke for myself. I won't leave it because he does.

Edward MacMahon

He's manipulative and obviously so, and now you are the target. He's trying to write a role for himself in history, when the truth is he was just a hanger-on.

Sheila E.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

Paul Boyce

We could've met a nobody next but that would've been no use to anyone.

Barney Oliver

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Scott Snyder

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Mike Tyson

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

Theodore Roosevelt

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Deborah Kerr

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Maureen Phillips

He was a very gentle, wonderful, kind soul. In 22 years ... I never met a person who didn't like him.

English 16th Century Proverbs

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Steve Mitchell

We're a service industry, what a town does is it proves services. We need to be able to look and see how we are raising revenues to provide these services.

English 16th Century Proverbs

The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.

Tom DeLay

Mr. Earle and his staff know it. And I will prove it.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Jim Mattox

He's been there 30 years, he doesn't have to prove anything to anybody,

Zachary Quinto

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.

Hisayasu Nagata

In the end, I could not prove the authenticity of the information.

Arthur C. Clarke

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Eckhart Tolle

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Britney Spears

I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Eileen Caddy

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Maggie Magerko

We've had Thanksgivings together, so there's a strong relationship there.

A. A. Milne

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

A. A. Milne

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

George Herbert

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.