Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Jay Leno

As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

Warren Beatty

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

Jason Quinlan

She lives in California and grew up in Boston. She flew out here after she was diagnosed and underwent chemotherapy at Children's until last May. She had to stay in the hospital the entire time.

Sheila Ballantyne

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

Rob Stutzman

This is $3 million more from the governor because he smells victory in the air. He thinks California is worth investing in.

Cardinal Mahony

It is unacceptable that immigrant workers labor in unsafe conditions for wages insufficient to support their families. It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

Charlie Munger

We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.

Steve Anderson

Our storm (today) and Wednesday will be down in Southern California on Friday.

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.

Dean Koontz

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

Diane Keaton

...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.

Edgar Allan Poe

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Victor Hugo

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

Suzanne Collins

Doors are for those who lack enemies.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Michael Ende

There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.

Patricia Briggs

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

Rumi

Live in the nowhere that you come from even though you have got an address Here.

George Galloway

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

B. C. Forbes

I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.