Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bakker

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Ryan White

When I came out of surgery, I was on a respirator and had a tube in my left lung. I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.

Leonard Woodcock

When the settlement was made to pay the same wage rates in 1967, it provided for base rate parity, but not cost of living parity.

David Gest

I bought up the first two nights thinking if you can pack them the first two nights, by the time the reviews came out, she'd be able to sell tickets.

Patty Hearst

But this has to happen. You just can't let people go because they stayed hidden for 25 or 27 or 37, whatever years. It's ridiculous.

John Cameron

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

Kim Mathers

I have always taken his word on things and stood by his side. Even after the whole situation up at Hot Rocks, I tried to defend him.

Jessica Hahn

If only Tammy knew how much I really cared about her. She has nothing to do with any of this mess.

Pat Colander

Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.

Boris Boehm

The weak dollar hits our economy at the worst possible moment. We had just seen the first signs of a small recovery. It hits our export-related companies.

Brad Miller

That must have been terrible to watch. We should give a dollar back to every fan.

Suzy Menkes

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

Derek Halpenny

Towards the end of the year, we do see the dollar turning down as it loses its rate support.

Bret Calhoun

We know she has a grass pedigree, but we thought she had a good shot. You're not going to get to run for a quarter-million dollars in a Grade III like this too many times. We thought she fit as well as any other horse in here.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

Rand Paul

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

Michael Newman

No. No I felt terrible for our customers. I felt terrible for the problems that they had. I understand putting 50 dollars of gas in your tank is a real problem. There was no price gouging in Western New York.

Niels Christensen

Monetary policy expectations were the driving forces on the FX (foreign exchange) markets in most of 2005 and while we expect structural problems to come back to haunt the dollar in 2006 we expect monetary policy expectations to lend support to the greenback early in the year.

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.

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?

Adam Sandler

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Adam Sandler

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Adam Sandler

My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam.' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night.'

Abraham Verghese

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Barry Zito

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

Demarcus Ware

I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Craig Ferguson

You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.

Thomas Merton

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

Robert M. Pirsig

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

Peter Thonis

This is a logical and predictable move by AT&T ( T ).

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.

Russ Diamond

It's been over a month now, and the voter outrage is still going strong.

Matt Meinrod

It's seems like every time, people want to see how I've come back from an injury. Considering I only had a month of workouts, I'm happy.

Jim Tracy

Then, it'd be interesting to see what we'll have going into the month of September.

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.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Roy Oswalt

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

Vanna Bonta

Pay me for my work, but I dont do it for the money

Suzanne Collins

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

Stephen King

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.

Stephen King

Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

Sonam Kapoor

I don’t spend much because a lot of it is freebies. Though, usually, I pay.

Sylvia Plath

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

Ronald Burkle

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

Suzanne Collins

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

Sigmund Freud

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

Neil Gaiman

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

Lisa McMann

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Gary Snyder

That's the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

Candace Bushnell

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

Jared Leto

I remember seeing this image of these women wearing these bright clothes and patterns, and it struck me. I remember taking note and going, like, "What is that? Who is that?" and finding out it was Gucci and being surprised.

Erin Gruwell

Remember not all Germans were Nazis.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Ed Miliband

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

Shaw Wu

We all touch Windows at work or at school, whether we like it or not.

Alexandra Adornetto

At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!

Peter Uihlein

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

Seth Rogen

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

Terry Pratchett

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Matsuo Basho

Just washed, How chill The white leeks!

Pablo Neruda

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Paula Deen

I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

Mary E. Pearson

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.