Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Abraham Lincoln

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

Anna Torv

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

Ani Difranco

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

Andy Garcia

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

Allen West

The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Aesop

One story sounds good until another is told

Renata Adler

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Rumi

Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.

Neil Gaiman

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.

Fran Lebowitz

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Fetty Wap

I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.

Geoffrey Rush

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Sarah Elliott

As a player, you want to listen to her. She's been there. She knows. She knows the scenarios. We've just tried to listen and learn and execute.

Old Proverb

A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.

Mike Post

This is a total team effort, ... Everyone knows they are just one piece in the puzzle of getting supplies to victims, and they all know how important it is.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Daniel Handler

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

Enzo Bianco

Berlusconi will lose because of this. Everyone knows things aren't going well.

Albert Camus

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

Ann Aguirre

I always have someplace else I’d rather be, even if I don’t know where that is, yet.

Rashida Jones

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.