Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Kevin Turner

We will pursue this individual, we will search him out and try to get at least some of our money. The rest will be borne by the taxpayer.

Dale Carnegie

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

Anne Sexton

women are born twice.

Czeslaw Milosz

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

Albert Hofmann

I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.

Amin Maalouf

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Jesse Jackson

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Ray LaMontagne

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

Timothy Zahn

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Rudolf Arnheim

Every act is a visual judgement.

Ron Kaufman

Quality is a choice. Choose to make it better.

Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!'

Suzanne Collins

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

Rollo May

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

T. S. Eliot

To make an end is to make a beginning.

John Milton

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Shawn Ryan

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

George Orwell

The end was contained in the beginning.

Emma Forrest

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Chris Van Allsburg

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

Tom Izzo

I didn't think we were ever in the game, even when we were ahead. I was disappointed maybe in all ends of the court, for us, but I'd say that Minnesota had the most to with that. They just played harder.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Richard G. Scott

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

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

Mircea Monroe

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

Bible Bible

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Bhagavad Gita

And when immorality prevails, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupted; when women are corrupted, social problems arise.

Tom Cooper

Each family, as we all know, is very, very different. They have different spending priorities and they have different teaching and learning priorities.

Linda Maxwell

Evelyn was the glue that held the family together.

Jim Vogel

You?d be surprised what kind of marketplace there is for gently used equipment.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Brian Regan

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

Charles Spurgeon

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Muhsin Muhammad

We should be able to be more balanced. We'll see how it works out. We've got a lot of growing to do. We've got a lot of time to make up.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Joe Ayoob

I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard.

Paul Johnson

So sometimes it's hard to know who's got the ball.

Francis Mathew

Sorry is too simple to say, but we make it to hard because of Pride in Us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Ayn Rand

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

Kim Mathers

I am trying to move forward with my life.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Tracy McMillan

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Brigham Young

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Dionne Warwick

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Andrea Dworkin

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Jennifer Baker

The reason she stopped by the congressman's office was because I interned there and she would come to meet me for lunch.

David Calhoun

We had the same reaction -- Is this feasible? But realize that whatever we do, it's not going to meet everyone's problems.

Michael Chertoff

Those who got out are fine, ... Meet the Press.

Pete Sepp

If it doesn't meet the technical term of earmark, it would probably meet the public idea of one.

Suranne Jones

I had his posters on my wall, and it's really nice to meet him and find out he is so lovely.

Samaire Armstrong

I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

E. B. White

And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me,' and that might take up 15 minutes of your time allotment.

Ashley Wagner

I might be more of a tomboy on the ice, but when it comes to fashion and things like that, I'm a total girlie-girl.

James Matthews

We've had tickets sold all over the state, so I don't know where the winner might come from,

Lyle Setencich

We've had some problems. If we want to stop the run, we can stop the run. But we might not be able to stop the pass.

Alexei Smertin

I've received an offer from a Russian club.

Ed Miller

Essentially, through one product, the operator can offer three different services here. We've been shooting for this type of integration for some time.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Gene Jr

We made an offer and they turned it down.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

Rep. Chalk

My plan is to run on what I offer to the voters without regard of who my opponent is.

Joseph Cannon

For the people that have to do the process, it takes a substantial toll. We offer stress counseling.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

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.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Brad Williams

Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

William H. Gass

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.