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 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?

Dorothy Allison

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

Doris Lessing

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

e. e. cummings

Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

Adam Sandler

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

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.

Jamie Oliver

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Jami Gertz

My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.

Janet Jackson

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

Miley Cyrus

I always love coming to Disneyland but celebrating my birthday here with my family, friends and the kids from YSA is really awesome!, this is a night I'll never forget.

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.

Tony Curtis

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

Steve Martin

All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

Sam Levenson

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

Tim O'Reilly

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

Vanna White

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

Vanna Bonta

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

Suzanne Collins

Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

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,

Christian Moody

Julian just went up, and I can't remember who he dunked on, but who he dunked on will remember it.

Mike Browning

We do want him to remember us. We're all part of this partnership, and we want to be included.

Jay Leno

Remember when Obama was campaigning? Didn't he say he was going to close Guantanamo Bay? Didn't he say that? Apparently, he just meant for renovations.

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.

Diane Ravitch

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Dikembe Mutombo

I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

Anton Yelchin

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

Bruce Boxleitner

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

Edward Abbey

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Edward Abbey

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

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!

Patricia Hill Collins

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Patricia Briggs

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

Pat Paulsen

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

Oriana Fallaci

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