Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Lochte

I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.

Tyga

Lil Wayne would probably be a big musical inspiration for me, because growing up I was just the biggest Wayne fan and being able to be signed to him and watch his whole journey to the peak of his career is great.

Tyler Perry

Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

Rick Riordan

I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly. Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia." "Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too.

William J. Clinton

To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.

Richard M. Nixon

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Robert Crumb

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

Robert Carlyle

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

Roald Dahl

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Chrissie Fit

I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. I prohibited my friends from coming with me because I didn't want to make it awkward for them when he professed his love to me.

Edward Luck

I think it is a rather awkward situation and these things are usually worked out quietly. The more we play up this privilege, the more other members are going to dig in. You don't necessarily do yourself a favor by trumpeting the issue.

Mike Birbiglia

I actually wasn't really the class clown growing up. The class clown was always the mean guy who walked up and was like, 'You're fat. You're gay. I'm outta here!' I was always more kind of awkward and introspective.

Andre Agassi

His serve was more awkward than I anticipated. If you don't get a good return, he immediately gets on the offense. That's the sign of a great player.

Mark Johnson

I was as nervous as a cat. We had a really wonderful meal, and before dessert, there was sort of an awkward silence while I got up my nerve.

Phil Garner

He's better than people want to give him credit. What comes into play is he looks a little bit awkward at times. When he stretches he looks like he's falling instead of in balance, but he makes the play.

Scott Harrison

Hussein was more awkward than I thought. Once I put him down in the fifth round he was still strong. He was just trying to spoil and hold, but big respect to him -- he takes a good punch.

Mary Buckley

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Ajay Devgan

I'd love to say I simply don't care about all that is written. But these rumours make working together really awkward at one level or another.

Veronica Roth

I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.

Dawn Olivieri

I'm actually a sci-fi nerd on the inside; I just happen to be symmetrically put together on the outside.

Mara Wilson

I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.

Lev Grossman

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

Jonathan Lethem

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

Jonathan Lethem

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

John Hodgman

Only the nerds will save the earth.

John Gallagher, Jr.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

Joel Courtney

I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.