Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kelly

You know you're fat when you use a piece of a bread as a napkin.

Studs Terkel

Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.

Michael Pollan

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

Chuck D.

Our post guys have been our bread and butter all year long. When they get going for us, it opens things up for our guards.

Casey Hampton

Our run defense is our bread and butter, ... That's what we do: Stop the run. I think we're getting right where we need to be, at the right time.

Brunello Cucinelli

I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive oil.

David Hedison

When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever, and when I've made the money, I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself.

Natalie Morales

At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.

David Byrne

It is the price which must be paid to restore public confidence in our commitment to protect public health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Shania Twain

My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me theres some way we can save this. We can save this, right?

Seth

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

Leonard Peltier

Well... I still can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. These politicians are such sleazebags that you just don't know. You can't really get anything from a lot of them once they get into power. They totally forget about all their commitments. The poor people elect them, and they forget about all the poor people.

Joshua Harris

Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.

Pema Chodron

Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to have a more flexible identity because we learn to accept ourselves and all of our human experience with more tenderness and openness. We learn to accept the present moment with an open heart. Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.

Lara Flynn Boyle

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

Patrick Swayze

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

Eric Gonzalez

If a person wanted to hide out in the mountains, it would be hard to find them, but it would be difficult for them to hide out in a small town.

Linda Pruitt

I don't think it is difficult to turn around and play them on such short notice. It gives only one week to prepare, but we are prepared because we know what they are doing. It is also good because it is still fresh on our girls' minds that we lost to them last week.

John Oxford

If it gets itself rooted there, it will be even more difficult to get it out than Southeast Asia.

Christopher Low

If yields stay where they are, it's difficult to imagine how it could not have some economic impact.

John Fossum

If the flight attendants either collectively or individually engage in some activity, it's going to be much more difficult to operate the airline.

John Grandoff

If the incentives were attractive, if the process were not so difficult and bureaucratic and not so subjective, the people would say let's go for it.

Jack Jennings

If the home is not reinforcing reading, it is much more difficult to learn it in school, ... Reading scores don't just measure schools. They're also a reflection of the values societies or families put on reading.

Laura Hillenbrand

He was a very difficult animal. This was a horse who, if you pulled the right rein he'd go left.

Alex Ferguson

He's had a difficult time, obviously, but he trained yesterday and will train today so he will be okay.

Terrence Gabriel

I think the Qualcomm report may be dampening sentiment and Compaq's report is somewhat mixed. It does seem that disappointment over the Qualcomm report is feeding into the tech stocks.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Mark Chandler

We haven't seen any planting of any note for five years.

Dick Jauron

You'll hear me say, 'We've had a terrific draft.' Because you always take people you like and feel are good. But truly, you have to wait and see how it pans out. You may not know how good you did until five years later.

Jim Tressel

You just never know (about recruits). So who will do it? I don't know that any of us at this time last year would have thought ... (freshman) Malcolm Jenkins would start five games at cornerback.

Steve Kellar

Wilton is a good team. They took Waldorf down to the wire before losing by five last week.

Tim Stewart

Wireless technology has really matured a lot in the last five years. Not only has it matured, it's become affordable.

Steve Meyers

Wherever these laws have been in place for five years or more, parents and students agree, it's good.

Chris Clarke

We couldn't get that lead over five points. We were doing a lot of good things, but just couldn't get over that five-point hump.

Nancy Bain

We couldn't get five people in one spot.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Benjamin Disraeli

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Andy Cohen

Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Alexander Hamilton

To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.

Aleksandar Hemon

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.

Aleister Crowley

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

Joe Torre

I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility,

Robert Scoble

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

Cindy Sheehan

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Jan Egeland

Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it's too late? Maybe. It's a logistical nightmare,

Julie Hall

Are people still sleeping with their chickens? Yes, they are.

Ayad Allawi

are outlaws or terrorists ... who do not represent the sentiments of the people of the towns.

Randeep Hooda

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

Pablo Picasso

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

Carl Olson

And then people got all excited. Why was it there?

Constantin Oclei

The situation is very bad. We need to evacuate 1,200 people from Bechet and its surroundings by this evening.

Kathleen Farrell

I thought I was going to just walk in and walk out.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Jim Butcher

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

Jessica Alba

There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations.

Irvin S. Cobb

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

Iris Murdoch

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Ida B. Wells

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Ida B. Wells

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.