Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Collingwood

He wanted to negotiate a selling price not just for the car but also for all of the trophies and the memorabilia associated with the car and we came up with a deal.

John Rentoul

He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck.

Rudy Giuliani

I don't know what I'm going to be doing in 2008, ... I wasn't planning when I was associate attorney general or U.S. attorney (in the 1980s) to run for mayor. It all came gradually much closer to the time that I did it.

Din Syamsuddin

I don't believe them (the publishers) when they say there won't be nude pictures in (the magazine). I think that's just a strategy that will change later on. If they're not going to publish nude pictures, then change the name so it won't be associated with the original ( Playboy ).

Larry Cook

It has been our pleasure to have been associated with the Food Pantry Jam in the last 20 years,

Sarah McLachlan

I'm a bit of a control freak. I think it would be difficult for me to give it up because my name is so associated with it.

Wolfgang Gerhardt

The Greens have to face the question whether they will be associated for ever with the left or whether they could think of changing a little in this situation.

Tom Curley

Steve was an inspirational leader because he was an exceptional individual, ... Steve cared deeply about his people, The Associated Press and what it meant to journalism. He played a pivotal role in the development of the modern AP in Europe and forever will hold a place in our hearts.

Kelly McCann

A citizen should basically note first the descriptors -- height, weight, complexion, hair style, clothing, associated license plate. Then they should report it ... in a manner consistent with credibility.

Laura Bush

I think it is one of the most beautiful Christmas trees I've ever seen.

Gwen Harris

Here it's raining, but when we go north for a meet it's sunny and beautiful and we're running well and jumping well and throwing well.

Joe Taslim

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

Russell Crowe

He's gonna travel with me, ... A Beautiful Mind.

Billy Bush

What do you do to look so, I mean, gosh you look awesome. Just a beautiful, beautiful woman. Is it exercise, do you not eat anything? Be truthful.

Marguerite Young

I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what you write, it doesn't really make any difference. I'm not speaking of realistic novels now, but of the pseudo-poetic novel or short story.

Katie Johnson

I went to White Haven Beach, where they have the white sands and the beautiful turquoise water.

Maria Altmann

The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought it would be a beautiful thing to show them in this country.

Edward Lear

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea/ In a beautiful pea-green boat,/ They took some honey, and plenty of money,/ Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

Bronson Arroyo

Just one of those days that every hit they had, they were all mistakes and they smashed him,

Steve Dunn

I taught somewhere between 600 to 700 students while I was here. I can tell you those were great days in this old school building.

Tony Russa

He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days that he just didn't have a feel for the game of pitching.

Larry Rothschild

He knows that he does sides in between and the days he does them. I'll talk to him in the next day or two but the scheduling, as far as pitching, is not in our hands.

Dani Shapiro

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

Robert Wisner

Here in Iowa, there were a lot of nervous days during the summer due to hotter weather than in earlier years.

Christian Vieri

He's a good kid. We've been together for 20 days and have had a good time together,

Arlen Specter

Here you have a reporter in jail for 85 days and millions of Americans wonder why? I'm one of those.

Reggie Jackson

Here's what you have to understand these days about George. I stood 30 feet from him, and he didn't know who I was.

White Eagle

Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.

Michael Harrison

We're already getting the flowers and the curses.

Don Rickles

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Angie Brown

We would love to be able to see the dress. We try to match the ribbon with that and make sure the flowers match. We know this is a special day.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Paul Busse

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Neil Diamond

Being lost is worth the being found.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

William Ellery Channing

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Sarah Vowell

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

Sara Teasdale

Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.

Sara Teasdale

The spring is fresh and fearless And every leaf is new, The world is brimmed with moonlight, The lilac brimmed with dew. Here in the moving shadows I catch my breath and sing - My heart is fresh and fearless And over-brimmed with spring.

Sara Teasdale

I could not be so sure of Spring / Save that it sings in me.

Wallace Stevens

The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.

Willa Cather

The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

Virginia Woolf

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Samuel Butler

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Morgan Freeman

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

Keira Knightley

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

Kenneth Oppel

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

Paulo Coelho

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange

Joshua Bell

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Lady Gaga

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Whitney Houston

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

Chris Richards

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

Moby

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Pat Conroy

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Pope Francis

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

Keith Emerson

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

Karen Armstrong

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.