Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Jonathan Turley

I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades.

Neil Sedgwick

The second goal allowed us a little bit of breathing room. We were able to get valuable playing time for some of our younger players with the two-goal lead.

Mark Bannister

These companies are allowed to bring in foreign leaf which is substandard to Canadian leaf, and that's being smoked by people here,

Lalit Bhanot

These athletes were not allowed to compete in domestic competitions that were considered as trials to qualify for the games.

Mark Johnson

These were people much like you and I. What is it in humanity that allowed it to happen?

Robert Menendez

These drug-plan companies can switch the nature of the drugs they cover. Seniors should be allowed to then switch out of that plan if the medication they are taking is dropped from their drug-plan provider.

Kaye Thompson

The state numbers have come down significantly, from around 28 percent in 2002 to approximately 10 percent in 2005. That is still too high; it means that one in 10 children under 18 is still allowed to purchase cigarettes. The closer that number gets to zero, the better.

Joss Whedon

I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

Tim Cindric

That's great news. Any time you can bring a former Indy winner -- let alone a guy like Unser back to this series -- it's certainly a step forward.

Dave Band

You're the love of my life and the breath in my prayers. Take my hand and lead me there.. what I need is you here. I can't forget the taste of your mouth from your lips all the heavens pour out. I can't forget when we are one. With you alone I am free.

Alison Brie

Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.

Michael Cox

You're forcing it into the creek, ... Leave the creek alone -- it's already got problems.

Joel Madden

You're born alone and you die alone. No one can help you and no one can stop those things..everyman is equal when it comes to birth and death.

Eric Staal

You never want to lose three games in a row, let alone going into a break. Go into the break and rejuvenate and come back and be ready to go.

Peter Fox

You perpetrated a vicious, sustained and dreadful attack on a vulnerable woman, alone at night in the concrete stairwell of a multi-storey car park.

Kenneth Williams

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

Kenko Yoshida

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Dave Lambert

As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses.

Jessica Leonard

People who don't eat breakfast are twice as likely to be obese.

Joe Collier

We just wanted to make the kitchen as large as we could. We were also able to make use of all those big windows. Now the light pours in into the breakfast nook and the view now looks out toward the pool and the pretty cedar trees.

Dan Brown

My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

Anthony Bourdain

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

Robert Benchley

Who has not wished that his host would come out frankly at the beginning of the visit and state, in no uncertain terms, the rulesand preferences of the household in such matters as the breakfast hour? And who has not sounded out his guest to find out what he likes in the regulation of his diet and modus vivendi (mode of living)?

Robert A. Heinlein

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

Veronica Roth

I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking?

Ernest Hemingway

They arrested us after breakfast.

Adele

I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Dolores Huerta

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?

Anne Robinson

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

Andy Warhol

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

Stephen Hawking

It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Suzanne Collins

While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.

Neil Gaiman

I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

Francis Bacon

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Fran Lebowitz

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Brett Ratner

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

Brett Ratner

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Aretha Franklin

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

Bashar al-Assad

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.

Augustus

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...

Peter Cardillo

Very well managed, ... I just yesterday raised it to a 'strong technical buy.'

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Raf Simons

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

Antony Starr

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

John Tory

Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.

Kevin McGrath

We all have to live within the rules.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Rachael Ray

She said the first rule is to be myself.

Conrad Burns

I say it's the law. Write the rule and let it go forward,

Kenneth Fisher

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

Al Gore

I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.

Jason Blum

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.

Jane Wiedlin

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Barry Sonnenfeld

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

Ariana Grande

Moonlight is very honest and very special to me. I feel like this is the most personal music I've made, by far. I'm very proud of it and I'm very excited. It's scary...it's vulnerable and kind of terrifying.

Bob Dylan

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

Debra Messing

As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.

Barbara Boxer

I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

Ann Coulter

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Gary Enis

That's why tonight was so big. We've got to go back there and play Grenada.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Brigid Brophy

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

Stephen Kress

Every puffin we see tonight is a miracle.

E. B. White

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

Anne Sexton

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

Andre Dubus

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Red Smith

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Rip Taylor

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.