Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don King

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

Margaret Levens

Just to watch the smile on his face when a chopper flew over. He died doing what he wanted. That was his passion and I know he was happy.

Michael Arrington

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

Nadrine Stocker

I think it may have just been stress. My grandmother died on Feb. 9 the year before and I was thinking about that and it may have triggered the labor.

Pat Lewis

I always come on the holidays. We're like family. And Easter is a time of family gathering. God gave us his only son to show us he was our living savior. His son died for our sins and rose again, and that's really important. It's a day to give thanks to God.

Craig Reid

He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart. He was wasting away. By the end, it was a relief because he was in so much pain and he was so weak. He died in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and we were all there.

Suzanne Fields

The rains in Washington on the day that Pope John Paul II died were unusually ferocious, as if the heavens were weeping with uncontrollable sadness.

Jeff Phillips

He fought for that until the day he died and would still be fighting that.

John Barrymore

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Cuki Alvarez

Kelvin has been working hard for a little over a month. I wish it could be more, but we'll take what we got and let it work. I'm not worried about his stamina because he's in great shape, it's only now he'll be able to handle himself on the ground.

Scott Bogumil

It got away from us. The 3-pointer to start the third quarter was great, but we then got greedy with those.

Michael MacCambridge

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

Warren Buffett

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Joe Franklin

The whole idea is never to get greedy indoors.

Bill Gurley

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Steve Jaksa

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Michael Leunig

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

Richelle Mead

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Rufus Wainwright

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Jay Rohr

I'm getting a lesson in post-Charley getting construction done.

Frank Robinson

It's going to be a work in progress. He got a little lesson today. We don't want to make the same kind of mistakes two or three times.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Eli Broad

You always learn lessons in business.

Randall L. Stephenson

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

Thomas Mesereau

He is permanently living outside of the United States.

Sathya Baba

It is not the standard of living that is important, but the manner of living.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Anthony Ricco

He is living in a mud hut in the middle of nowhere with his Koran, his wife, and his child,

Virender Sehwag

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

William Gibson

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

Paul Simon

If you were to pick a role model on the court, living or dead, what role model or composite role model would it be?

Ronald White

I put her on a train to Chiang Mai in March because she had been playing around and living in a place with three boys, one of whom, I presume, got her pregnant.

Brian Collins

I'm relieved that he's living, Disappointed that he's convicted.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Monica Crowley

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Rob Cosby

They don't quit. They don't want to quit playing and neither do I.

Pat Gelsinger

It really is something that neither one of us could have done on their own.

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Chris Smith

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

Kevin Cathcart

Tragedy does not discriminate, and neither should relief agencies.

Charles Ferguson Smith

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Josh Sharpless

I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just seemed like a normal game. I didn't have the butterflies this time around. I just went out and pitched.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Clive Woodward

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,

Vincent Farrell

I think technology stocks are in for a correction, but it's a perfectly normal correction. This is a seasonably weak period of time.

Michael Steele

I don't know that much about the club, the membership, nor do I care, quite frankly, because I don't play golf.

Billy Donovan

He got back to playing the way he normally does.

Pete Johnson

rode out (hurricane) Camille (in 1969) when I was 20 years old.

Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Emo Philips

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

Marshall Brickman

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

Patrick Ness

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Mike Pence

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts

Rainbow Rowell

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Joan Robinson

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

Lyndon B. Johnson

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Pele

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Whit Hartz

You're pretty much surrounded by sharp, poky things.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.