Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lupita Nyong'o

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

Ha-Joon Chang

I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Jason Reitman

This is a movie more about spin and talk and lobbying than it is about cigarettes.

Dave Barry

I can snap your spine like a toothpick.

Arndt Ellinghorst

After all these years of suffering, why spin it off?

Frank Miller

The world, she do spin mad. These are wild times.

Kathy Duva

This isn't a 'Let's take him out for a spin and see how he is' fight.

Stephen Colbert

We don't want any filter, ... The correspondent is only going to put his spin on it.

Conor Oberst

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

Alice Cooper

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

Amanda Peet

Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Daly

What they talked about were the qualifications for manslaughter,

Jim Wooldridge

As we talked yesterday, it's his call. I don't have anything to say about it.

Jim Whitaker

It's just the give and take of negotiations. That's all. We've talked today and we'll keep talking.

Alex Beuzelin

They talked the talk, now they have to walk the walk.

Tyler Hansbrough

It's not something we've talked about, you know.

Kevin Stallings

It's not like we haven't worked on them, it's not like we haven't talked about them, it's not like we haven't drilled for it.

Kyle Loomis

At halftime, we just talked about getting after it on defense, so that we could widen the margin.

Mark Sweeney

As a visiting player, that's all we talked about. We're a better team when he's out there.

Michelle Campbell

Right now, we talked to them. And they say the water's to the ankles. They went outside. It's to the waist.

Benjamin Franklin

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

Christopher Wren

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Lorrie Fair

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

George W. Bush

We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve nowadays are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

Henry Mancini

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

Jack L. Chalker

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

Kent Mercker

You don't even have to wash my uniform pants.

Chris Graveline

Who can think of a person who has disgraced this uniform more?

Adam Smith

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Gabrielle Castro

Definitely. They wore us out. We don't go too deep.

Kim Shaw

I probably wore out my VHS copy of 'Office Space.'

Rudy Gay

We kind of wore them down with our defense.

Bob Hill

I don't think we could have done much more than we did. I thought they just wore us out with their depth.

Pat Sullivan

I think we wore them down with our depth.

Iris Apfel

I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

Bob Motzko

They wore us down. They just wore us down physically. Our defensemen were just pooped at the end.