Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Chris Lasoya

People ask me what makes a professional player and I don't know. I guess I was really marketable.

Lester Piggott

People ask me why I ride with my bottom in the air. Well, I've got to put it somewhere.

Francois Hollande

After what happened yesterday -- notably at the Sorbonne -- with these images of brutality, I ask the government to end its obstinacy and stubbornness and open talks toward withdrawing this law.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Todd Holmes

An official business will never ask you for your information. They already have it, and people have to be careful, because everything looks so legitimate.

Baruch Fischhoff

Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowardice on the public's part not to get engaged in the answer.

Mitch Stoller

Approximately 1.3 million people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer this year. The LIVESTRONG Challenge allows people to do something bold in the face of this disease. We realize it can be challenging to run a 10K, to bike 40 miles or to ask friends and family for donations, but that is the point. We want participants to challenge themselves and their friends and families to make a difference for cancer survivors. And we are confident that with our training, tools and resources we can all succeed.

Larry Steach

Every penny of the donations goes into the memorial fund.

Tom Logan

Those first trips were to Zaire, and we made sure that 100 percent of the donations we received made it to the field, ... Dr. Morgan, an orthopedic surgeon, did 65 operations in a little over six weeks. Dr. Pueda went to a hospital with no electric power and took out a little girl's spleen by flashlight. He saved her life while we all stood around and held Wal-Mart flashlights so he could see.

Mark Love

If they (businesses) make a donation for two years, 90 percent of their tax liability is forgiven by the state.

Salvation Army

With all of the donations going south we expect to be hurt locally, ... A lot of people will say they already gave.

Cathy Curran

It's to the point we're overwhelmed and we have no space, though we have had donations of warehouse space, for which we're very grateful.

Hugh Evans

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.

Stacey James

The players have all made donations through the Players' Association.

Jeb Bush

People had ample time to prepare. It isn't that hard to get 72 hours worth of food and water,

Joe Morgan

A plate of spaghetti back then was $1.50, and it was very good food, that's why it lasted,

Joel Fuhrman

Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

Jose Andres Puerta

The right use of food can end hunger.

Barbara Jordan

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Dave Williams

We are here to provide the most good to the most people. If they want to stay, we give them food and water. If they want to leave, we rescue them.

Jane Smiley

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

Kim Allen

There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often.

Craig Claiborne

Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

Indian Proverb

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Les Paul

The worst is over. I am doing better. I am grateful to all of my friends for their thoughts and I will be back shortly making them laugh.

Marc Otte

We are here as partners, as friends and we respect your sovereignty.

Peter Schmitt

We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Christiane Amanpour

I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints.

MacGyver MacGyver

How can you owe a friend? Friends stand by each other through everything.

Janet Sacavage

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

Andrew Solomon

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Stacy Kim

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Arthur Mitchell

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

Brian Johnson

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Bryant H. McGill

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Celia Imrie

I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

Charles Babbage

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Diane Ackerman

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Brian Eno

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Booker T. Washington

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Al Franken

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

Bar Refaeli

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

Cory Monteith

It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

Dylan Lauren

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

Douglas Adams

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Dorothy Day

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

Chuck Martin

There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush.

Richard Branson

Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.

Rush Limbaugh

I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

Mike Maroth

I've been getting a lot of runs. They've been scoring a lot of runs for me. They picked me up several times,

Roland Kampmeier

They all picked on me. It was survival of the fittest.

Jonathan Stamp

Bruno (Heller) deliberately picked out stuff which is shocking, arresting, surprising,

Paul Adams

The race is too tight to pick a winner.

Chris Devine

We were really down losing. This will pick us up.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Kevin McBride

This win was for the pride of Ireland, ... I proved everyone wrong tonight.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Blaise Pascal

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

Edward Abbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Adolf Hitler

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

Aesop

Pride goes before destruction.

Alexander Pope

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Alice Waters

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.