Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zach Braff

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

David Limbaugh

With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.

Jonathan Swift

When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest

Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Christopher Shays

I will tell you, I fly less because my knowledge of the system is better than the general public. And I think we endanger the general public by not checking the cargo in the belly of an aircraft.

Larry Sabato

To have a chance, Lucas must both demonstrate he still has the fire in the belly to serve in Congress and succeed in making this race as much of a personal popularity contest as it can be. Still, you can bet Davis will seek to tie his opponent to his party label at every turn, and we give the freshman Republican an early leg up.

Donnie Miller

Basically, his intestines have developed outside of his body, right next to his belly button and what they do is try to put a sack over the intestines and then slowly put them back into his body. They can't do that all at once because it would be too much weight for him.

Shayna Richardson

I have a constant reminder moving around in my belly telling me what a miracle my life is and what a miracle his life is.

Simon Goodwin

It certainly gets the fire in your belly when your direct opponent wins the game for the opposition, ... You take that. You take that into training and you take that into tonight's game.

Imelda May

I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Elaine Stritch

I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.

Tony Crescenzi

The pattern of the equity market lately is that it doesn't retain its bid for long. Bonds started to strengthen on a bet that stocks would weaken. It's rare that stocks hold a bid these days.

David Carruthers

The acquisition extends our cross-selling opportunities and further strengthens our management team with US-facing sports betting expertise.

Mark Richt

We have worked on it a lot. (Quarterback D.J.) Shockley just has great voice inflection. He's doing a great job of mixing up the cadence. I bet we're averaging three a game and maybe even more. We've gotten a bunch of people to jump offside just because of our cadence.

Mark Richt

We have worked on it a lot, ... (Quarterback D.J.) Shockley just has great voice inflection. He's doing a great job of mixing up the cadence. I bet we're averaging three a game and maybe even more. We've gotten a bunch of people to jump offside just because of our cadence.

Scott Bakula

Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.

Sandra Tsing Loh

I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.

Paul Bloom

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

Gabriel Mann

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Don Rickles

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Brittany Howard

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

Craig Conroy

That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.

Eleanor Norton

We have trivialized this park, residents make too little use of it, and tourists don't know where it is, ... Neither the city or the federal government has bothered to make maximum use of it. The problem is that it had no plan and it's in a state of great deterioration.

Joseph Garcia

We came out lethargic in the first half. Audra (Major's) back was bothering her like it did before Christmas, and the guards really had to step it up.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

David Eckstein

We had our chances. I think his hamstring was bothering him. There was a play when he didn't run to cover first base. There may be something there.

Bruce Bowen

We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most.

Gwen Moore

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

John Ashcroft

The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time, ... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one.

Dana Perino

The appropriate members of Congress have been and continue to be informed with respect to the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Ron Bonjean

The American people want Congress to find sincere ways to pay for Hurricane Katrina, and we are pressuring ourselves to get this done.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

John Boehner

The American people know that our government's too big, and it spends too much. And they expect Congress to do something about it.

Mark Lassiter

We could not arbitrarily do this on our own. This is an issue that Congress will have to decide.

Jim Saxton

We have uncertainty resulting from international events -- the Iraq situation, as well as international terror -- while domestically, in Congress, we have done our part to create uncertainty with regard to spending policy, as well as tax policy, ... We passed some tax cuts that are going to expire, and that creates uncertainty when people plan for their future.

Larry Meyers

To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.

Virginia Postrel

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

Neymar

Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

Prem Nair

We have always contested liability in this lawsuit.

Chris Hayes

We could have gone out and contested more. If we put a hand up on half of those shots, they'll miss half of them.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

My cholesterol went from 220 to 149. I was crying like a 'Biggest Loser' contestant when my doctor gave me the news.

Randy West

Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.

Prakash Karat

Usually the party state secretary does not contest elections.

Olly Murs

I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

J. M. Roberts

I thought it was a hotly contested game. I thought our guys battled hard, played hard throughout the whole game. ... It definitely was not a 16-point game.

Dan Schnur

That would be just what Davis needs. There is nothing Gray Davis would like more than to be able to talk about the recall as a nefarious plot by out-of-state Republicans.

Steve Spurrier

Mike Davis ran extremely well. He's so much quicker and stronger than last year. So is Cory Boyd. He's a big time back.

Jon Gruden

We hope it can. We got our first glimpse of what these guys can do wire to wire. We've had so many of them injured, Buenning and Anthony Davis have missed starts in the preseason and John Wade has been somewhat limited. But yeah, we hope to grow offensively, starting up front.

Brad Coker

Basically, Crist and Davis are nominal front-runners. Going in, they are going to be the favorites.

Jake Delhomme

I'm all for it. Whoever we can get in there. But if it's still Stephen Davis or Steve Smith, that's fine with us, as long as we have one more point than the other team.

Bobby Ross

Glenn Davis was my hero. I think that Carlton, when he has time to get over the excitement of this victory, will be able to look at what he has done as an unbelievable accomplishment.

John Brady

Glen Davis could never get into the rhythm he had last night or the way he finished the year.

Gray Davis

If it could happen, Davis would look forward to such an opportunity. It's just very difficult to listen to inaccurate facts that went unchallenged.

Barry Cohen

He's a compassionate guy; he's a person of substance; he's passionate about what he wants for this state. Jim Davis is a nice guy. From my perspective, it takes more than a nice guy to get elected.

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brenda Russell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

David Carson

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

David Bradford

That was a terrible thing he did in his early 20s and he's been very upfront that he's made some serious mistakes,

Mack Brown

That was a killer. It was early enough in the game that it shouldn't have been so big.

Jane Soepardi

We have already made a plan to hold another round early next year, maybe at the end of January or early February.

Rob Keck

We need to hook them on hunting at an early age, so they become appreciative of the hunting tradition. This will also increase hunter retention and ensure the future of conservation remains strong.

Ron Wilson

We just didn't have the energy level we needed to do the job and it was pretty obvious early on. The only thing I was hoping for was their energy level would sink because it was their third game in four nights, too.

Lynn Ford

The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.

Bette Davis

I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire

Antoine Rivarol

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

Bertrand Russell

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.

Dave Bailey

That was unprecedented. Nobody has ever gotten Fire Officer of the Year two times.

Tom Tylutki

That weapon was fired at least 20 times.

Matt Sylvester

We could hear Davidson down the hall partying and yelling and screaming. I think he wanted it to light a fire under us. ... The seniors just wanted to make sure this wasn't the last time we all played together, the last time this team was going to be together. And we made that point to each other.

Rick Ruffin

We just didn't play with the fire this team usually plays with ... I am a little disappointed with that.

Malala Yousafzai

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

John Brady

The outstanding ones are usually gone. You have to start over with freshman and sophomore talent.

Hutton Jones

That was huge to get that done and for a freshman to come through.

Dijon Thompson

We hadn't been to the tournament since my freshman year, so it was very big. It was very special to get back my last year. To go out in the first round, it was kind of disappointing, but at U of A, it was tough.

Travers Evans

We have a good mix of returning veterans and a very talented freshman class.

Corey Ihmels

We have a freshman that not only won the U.S. trials, but I think he can go onto the world meet and place really high. It just kind of shows where our program is headed and what we want to get accomplish. I think this is a big accomplishment for our program.

Reggie Wax

We've got some individuals that are putting together some really good seasons. Ramsey is a freshman and he's placing in varsity tournaments for the first time.

Kevin Gilligan

I thought my freshman played really well. It was a great effort, and I'm so proud of him.

Reed Goldsmith

I think they really stepped up and played well. They were competitive and played hard. At times they made some freshman mistakes, but that's OK.

Jason Russell

Man, Brock went after Edwards like a champ. You couldn't tell he was a freshman tonight.

Chino Moreno

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Alice Walker

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Betsey Johnson

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

Phil Schiller

Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.

Art Alexakis

Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.

Hal Newhouser

I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.

John Abraham

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

Nathan Barankin

I don't know that it's ever been tested in court, but the law does label it a crime.

David Eagleman

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Steve Burns

That was important because it set a legal precedent.

Pete Rose

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

Craig Brown

Michael Owen - he's got the legs of a salmon.

Larry Gregory

will be on the minds of every legislator when they come in for the next session.

Bryan Whitman

You can do something perfectly legal, but that is inconsistent with the policy or procedures of the department. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Jessica Simpson

Willie Nelson is a legend and someone I've always admired,

S. Hughes

I thought I was going to die, my legs were seizing up. And then when I could move, I started crying, I was just so happy.

Bryan Whitman

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Samuel Witwer

Working on the franchise and getting direction from George Lucas - it's something that I never thought would take place.

Darin Lee

Lucas worked so hard. We had him doing so much. He just tired a little bit. It's not his fault. He was working so hard.

Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

Rodney Harrison

We have a tough opponent this week. We have to get better.

Branco Milenkovic

It has become very frustrating, to say the least, trying to secure an opponent for our man.

Kelly Moylan

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Joe Solmonese

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

Kent Redfield

He would have been running them if he had an opponent or not.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Gore Vidal

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

C. S. Lewis

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Cecelia Ahern

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

Carrie Fisher

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Carl Paladino

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Bethenny Frankel

No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

Bette Davis

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

Bill Vaughan

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at

Bill Burr

Against these two [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] I would [vote], but I never voted for [Barack Obama]. I always voted third party - the ones who say their gonna jail the bankers.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Richard G. Scott

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Edie Falco

I was here when it happened. I need more time, but that's just me. I'm personally not ready for it.

Hal Gill

I think if you don't want to wear a helmet, don't wear a helmet. If you don't feel like wearing pads, don't wear them. It solves a lot of problems but I think it's a personal decision.

Bill Ritter

Personal responsibility has to be a part of this.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C. S. Lewis

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Bill Bowerman

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Bertrand Russell

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Bertrand Russell

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Jimmy Austin

We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.

Jeb Bush

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Madeleine Albright

I can't go out with a Republican.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Atharva Veda

Servant Nanak seeks Your Support; he has come to Your Sanctuary.

John Ortberg

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

Phillip Nalbone

They will seek to use it as a negotiating tool.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Steven Smith

We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Steve Smith

We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Guru Singh

Those who do not serve the True Guru, come and go regretting.

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

Robert Kiyosaki

Sometimes you succeed.... and other times you learn.

David Cunliffe

Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed.

Akhenaton

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Barry Diller

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

August Strindberg

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

Bill Gates

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

Bill Gates

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

Babette March

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Barbara Hepworth

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

Pierce Brosnan

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

David Bell

You always feel like you're going to win, especially after you come back and tie it like that.

Theresa Hamilton

We really want to make this an entire-valley event. We all know someone. We're all tied together. This valley is very interconnected.

Dhani Jones

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

Dhani Jones

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

Dhani Jones

There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others.

Charlie Chaplin

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Charles Caleb Colton

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Charles Spurgeon

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.