Famous Quotes & Sayings

Serena Williams

I've always been a beauty junkie. I've tried every product. I'm addicted to products. I can't go into the mall without buying everything. I said to my manager, 'I should get a beauty deal, I'm going to go broke buying all these products.

John Olson

A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.

Craig Benson

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.

Ed Looney

So when you're dealing with one addict, you're dealing with 8 to 10 other people that get affected because of the addiction. We have to look at public policy, the government, the people who are leaders and rely on them to do better public policy when it comes to a very, very addictive product.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Whitney Mays

At some point, your will dies. At some point, your addiction has a whole other plan for you.

Oprah Winfrey

What is relevant is that he was a drug addict ... and stepped out of that history to be the man he is today and to take that message to save other people and allow them to save themselves.

Stephen Richards

To me, I guess, it just sums up the addiction of addiction, kind of the guilty pleasure in being addicted to something. I never really write about one thing in particular, so, I mean, it can be about a girl, or it can be about alcohol. It's just basically the guilty pleasure in enjoying addiction, trying to get away from wanting to be addicted to something, yet still feeling comfortable with it.

Allen Ginsberg

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Matt Ridley

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

Doug Tobin

Some of the evidence we collected at the (stabbing) scene did lead up to the trailer where we served the search warrant this afternoon. Fortunately, it ended peacefully.

David Marschall

Most everybody who can has been a volunteer somewhere in town for some period of time. Like everybody else, we collected donations immediately after.

Tom Jackson

It was pretty difficult to watch for a while, ... We collected ourselves and played. Full-court pressure is not an easy thing to do. We must have given up five or six baskets.

Barton Gellman

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

David Gardner

Detroit is our weakest market and upstate is second, ... We try to operate at a 95 percent occupancy level and we haven't seen that for a number of years in upstate

P. J. O'Rourke

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

Mack Strong

I've seen a lot of years that were very challenging. A lot of turning points, a lot of lessons learned over those years. But I can tell you with all honesty, with all my heart, it's been worth every second. The feeling I have right now, getting ready to go to Detroit to play for a world championship ... it's just tremendous.

Richard Jefferson

I don't think Detroit was ecstatic when they won a division. I don't think San Antonio is going to be excited when they win theirs. . . . This is just one step.

Tomas Vokoun

You can't stop 40 or 45 shots a night and expect to win. Detroit has five Hall of Fame players on the team. You can't give them 45 shots.

Karen Pagoda

They had to go from Shanghai to Narita, then Narita to Detroit, then Detroit to Albany.

Charles Barkley

This is the most wide open I've ever seen the NBA playoffs. The only thing that would surprise me is if San Antonio and Detroit aren't in the Finals. Anything else wouldn't surprise me.

David Letterman

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

Bob Harms

This grant is essential for keeping the doors open and providing the many services we offer to consumers. We are very grateful to the Bremer Foundation.

John Shepperd

That should be the peak because there was a large increase in June a year ago, ... So that should imply that the rate in June in this year comes down. I think this will open the door to a reduction interest rates from the ECB.

Brad Goreski

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

Eric Brown

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

Catherine Ponder

All financial doors are open; all financial channels are free, and endless bounty now comes to me.

Jane Austen

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Dean Koontz

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Brian Eno

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

Bob Dylan

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kristin Gore

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Gerry Anderson

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Rashad Anderson

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Frank Barrett

He tilted at windmills, but he knocked over a lot of them in a variety of fields.

DeJuan Blair

That was like getting knocked out in the last second of a title fight.

Aaron McFarland

That's a very talented team. They'll do well. I'd love to say we got knocked out by the state champions.

Dave Ketterman

They just really needed a win more than we did. They played with a sense of urgency and knocked some shots down.

Daylon McCutcheon

I've had the wind knocked out of me before. This was way worse than that." ()

Michael Matz

That's everyone's concern. In a 20-horse field, you can get knocked out before you get to the first turn. Nothing you can do about that.

Charles Young

We were knocked down but not knocked out.

Clark Haggans

We've knocked down seven of the eight. We just have one more to go.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

James Wolcott

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Jason Aldean

For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.

Miley Cyrus

When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.

Anthony Trollope

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

Demetri Martin

The other night I was playing twister with some amputees.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Edward Young

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

Coolio

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Alexander Pope

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Albert Schweitzer

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Randy Travis

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

Thomas Jefferson

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.