Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas White

He is so out of control with his crack addiction that he is willing to do armed robberies to support it,

George Sheehan

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

William S. Burroughs

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

William S. Burroughs

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

Sarah Silverman

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

Rodney King

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Robin Williams

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Roger Babson

If things go wrong, don't go with them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Katy Perry

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

John Huston

I was in such a bad position probably a couple of months ago I just decided to start playing every week. I wanted to see if I could kind of get some sort of a feel for the game back.... I've started playing a little better.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Nicholson Baker

Keyboard work creates a class of unwanted things - one-letter typos, failures of phrasing, bad punctuation. If you don't want to delete these entirely, you can use the Return key to push them to the bottom of the screen.

Joan Greene

Kids today are very bright. They know bad things happen, and they need to know that this man who has been so wonderful has done nothing wrong.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Paul Di Filippo

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

Pat Lynch

Kids that didn't make it 20 years ago make it easily now.

Bobby Anglin

He could eat, especially if it was Jack-in the Box. He really loved the big ultimate cheeseburgers and could easily eat three.

Marlon Byrd

He could easily have swung away right there and tried to get his hits. Most guys, if you're going for .400, you're swinging to get your hits.

Marlon Byrd

He could easily have swung away right there and tried to get his hits,

Tom Caudill

He's got good skills for a kids who plays inside. He could easily play as a guard. He's got to play inside because we're not very big. He's only going to get better.

Keith Marshall

It could easily get out of control. It's so easy for somebody to get trapped and disoriented.

Bill Tierney

I think the guys think of him in a very respectful way, as a guy who can very easily lead them. And they look at him as a friend.

Paul Stoddart

With me it was F3000 and Formula One. I don't really see that transition being made very easily now.

Jason DeLuca

We are fourth, fifth and sixth in the state. We easily could be one, two and three. We are not that far off. I'm sure we are all looking forward to finding out.

Randy Carter

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Richard Whately

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

William J. Clinton

She got to go to heaven four days early.

Richard Roeper

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Wilson Mizner

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Lindy Ruff

It's part of our culture, and not necessarily hockey. There's nothing wrong with legal gambling . . . as long as it doesn't become a disease.

Joe E. Lewis

I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

Lord Byron

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

Edward de Bono

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Walter Robb

I would say it was about a month ago and I had an offer in my pocket and I was ready to sell. If I had not been able to find a good parent team, I would have sold. Then we had a meeting with Carolina.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Andy Schulz

Kids were making plays all over the place. They refused to lose. We refused to lose. Time just ran out. Fortunately, we were ahead.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Lisa Murray

Kids saw their town from a different perspective, through the lens of a camera.

John Lawrence

Kids need to try different things. They're making us do this and we shouldn't be doing this. There is no reason.

Patty Murray

Kids need something in this town to do,

Vicky Rideout

I would suggest that parents want to probably take a look at how much time their kids are spending with media and how much time their kids are spending in other activities,

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Steven Reinprecht

He led the way, that's for sure. I think he showed what a special player is.

Seth Vining

He's been so solid. He's come in and led the team from the start.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

Winona Ryder

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Wil Nichol

In the second period we turned the tide. We started doing the little things that make us successful. And that led to the big things, which is goals.

Mamie Gummer

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

R. Robinson

Thirteen and three. He's a 13-3 quarterback. You're going to just sit him down? That man led us to 13-3, so why would you sit him down?

Mike Daniels

His wife is just the sweetest person, just about the nicest person you every met, ... She has that sweet soprano voice. They sang together. They were just inseparable. He was her whole life.

Eric Blake

It could be the nicest weather of the season.

Jim Murphy

It's, by far, the nicest stadium down here. It's great.

Brad Miller

There was kind of a buzz. We thought it was pretty nice. It's one of the nicest in the MAC, and a lot of people appreciated how well it looked.

Brian Andrew

This is the nicest way to search somebody if they have to be searched.

Michael Washington

This is one of the nicest parks that we've built.

Kyle Adams

The weather is supposed to be great. They say it's going to be the nicest day of the week.

Bobby Lee

I like Columbus, Ohio, because it's Pleasantville for real. They have the nicest white people I have ever met, and I mean that!

Wayne Rogers

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

Sarah Paulson

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

Pete Carroll

It's so frustrating for him. He's been waiting for his chance. I feel terrible for him.

Jodi Picoult

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Moby

I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.

Mika

I am terrible at relationships.

Larry David

Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

Simon Schama

A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older...

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Marlon Byrd

It's a terrible loss. We had so many chances.