Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sopheeng Toun

I have three sisters and two brothers. My younger brother and I were born here, but the rest of my family is from Cambodia. My family went through hard times in Cambodia and came here in the early '80s.

Dario Fo

I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could not actually invent.

Joss Whedon

I had this extraordinary world I helped create, with this cast I felt were the most extraordinary people I'd worked with, who were born to play these parts,

Benjamin Limo

I'm very proud of this gold medal. My son was born on Monday, and it is obvious that I will name him 'Helsinki.

Kellan Lutz

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

Mark Twain

I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born

Robert Rexroade

I knew there was a year that coach didn't win a game, but I didn't know it was the year we were born until now. He (Evans) is a great coach and has taught us great fundamentals.

Kevin Poole

I knew I was born to play sports,

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Mark Morris

We didn't know we had such a good example so close by.

Lisa Stuckey

We're taking a very close look at who our dropouts are, to see if there are common trends or characteristics so we can better predict who might drop out, and provide the support they need.

Krist Novoselic

We all live in Seattle, and this is a close music community. We just, Peter and I met each other about 7 years ago. I'd stay at his house in Athens.

Eldon Hoy

We all knew coming into the season that the league was wide open. We stepped up in the fourth quarter of many games and won some very close games.

Lorenzo Williams

Tonight we just wanted to handle the situation and close the game out.

Kenneth Dotson

To see that this close to the game is very rare.

Hunter Rawlings

To me, he is a representative of what we are trying to accomplish, namely, to have a very close intellectual association with China.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

Manny DeMutis

It's where artisans will come together and create one-of-a-kind things. If you want one-of-a-kind things you've got to come to Phoenixville.

Katherine Jenkins

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

George H. W. Bush

The list is wide open, which should create some good speculation here in Washington,

Michael Gerber

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.

Besa Deda

A minority government may increase uncertainty and create some short-term volatility in the currency.

Jack Ablin

All of those things conspired to create a difficult environment for stocks.

Jeb Bush

All of the money is being plowed into infrastructure, ... If you haven't dealt with the fundamentals of what's a livable community, how do you create private-sector jobs. If you haven't focused on that, it's not sustainable.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Nancy Allen

Since it happened in our area, and it?s the Oxford Lions, we thought we?d step up. We decided last Thursday at our meeting. We wanted to get it out and do it quick.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Jakaya Kikwete

We promise to respect people of all creeds: those who are Christians, Muslims as well as those who have decided not to follow any religion.

Ed Rendell

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Horacio Gutierrez

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

Paul Scott

While we have some promising signs, we need to see the proposal still. We're pleased that Mills has decided to step away from direct involvement of the project.

Tommy Bailey

We wanted to jump on them early, especially with the weather the way it was. Five innings makes an official game, so that is why we needed to get the early lead. But then, we decided to just put the weather out of our minds.

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Adam Carolla

People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

Amy Poehler

Dreams never wear you down.

Amy Poehler

I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

Allen Ginsberg

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

Andrea Dworkin

Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Alberto Gonzales

I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

Rod Smith

We had a good season, but it's still a failure to me. That's in my eyes, that's nobody else's opinion, that's my opinion because I know what it's like to hold the trophy at the end. But anything less than that is a failure to me. . . . When we needed it the most, we didn't get it. Their team was better.

Bobby Valentine

Koga put him in the No. 1 spot last year, and he got hot after that. I thought I'd follow suit.

Crystal Hackney

Our girls put in a lot of work over the summer, so we're ready to go. We're going up there with high expectations.

Rory Huff

Our girls just stepped it up and McClintock was playing to not get beat.

Marc Walters

Our girls have been working hard. Our girls are trying to get better, and we're making progress.

Amanda Miller

Our girls do a good job of keeping a team down, ... Volleyball is very much a momentum game, so it's important not to let a team back in the game.

Jim Young

Our girls are very intelligent and they study hard for their exams. We were out of our routine early. Southeast played well and we were not sharp.

Kim Orr

Overall, I thought we played really well. We ran our offense well and got back on defense. I know the girls were pleased, too. Even though it was a loss, we played pretty well.

Josh Davis

Overall, the girls stepped it up. They showed a lot of character.

Teresa Lamb

Overall, the girls showed tremendous growth and teamwork.

Bonnie Somerville

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

Jenifer Lewis

I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.

Iris Apfel

If your hair is done properly you can get away with anything

Homer

And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs

Georgia May Jagger

Basically, my hair is very dry from all the backcombing! Hairdressers prefer if your hair is dry and damaged, as it makes it easier to style.

J. K. Rowling

Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

J. K. Rowling

Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.

George Herbert

No hair so small but hath his shadow.

Jerry Cantrell

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again..

Troy Garity

Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own.

Rumi

I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless?

Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes, kismet happens.

Leonard Woolf

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Elliott Smith

If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.

Holly Black

Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.

Gustave Flaubert

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

John L. Phillips

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.