Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Sid Freeman

In years past, guys planted low water consumption crops that you don't get any money out of.

Stewart Tucker

The first crops failed. The tomatoes grew large but fell off early. The sand could not hold them up.

David Brown

It takes a ton of labor to manage the enormous crops that Zin will throw, especially vines like ours that are only 16 years old.

Joe Newton

I wanted the flexibility to treat my crops as needed without waiting on someone else.

Tom Vilsack

As we move into a freer marketplace, it's incumbent upon us to show how crops can be used in a wider way,

Kelly Fero

This is a dilemma that always crops up with interest groups that too narrowly define themselves on one issue or another. Do they hold politicians to a standard of purity that ends up hurting them, the interest group? Do you let perfect be the enemy of the good? That is the dilemma they face.

Jaap Brakke

For many years the rain was pouring down and the crops failed. So first the people would start offering the gods food, and then tools and other things of value. When everything failed, the elders would decide to make the ultimate offering. There is no written history of what happened there, but what we do have is a record of human sacrifice.

Franklin P. Jones

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Brian Smith

Kieron has played some great rugby for us this season.

Larry Martin

Knoxville is a great place to live. It's a great place to raise kids.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Stephen J. Cannell

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

Shimon Samuels

He saw humor as a line of defense.

Mike Nichols

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

John Cornyn

I think you'll probably see not only his erudition, but his sense of humor.

Karen Leathem

I think it's sort of a trademark quality of New Orleans that people can usually find humor in the worst situations.

Greg Evans

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

Kristan Higgins

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

Kristan Higgins

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Lynette Donnelly

Humor is key in getting through this journey. I needed to see the lighter side of life.

John Cornyn

I think you'll probably see not only his erudition, but his sense of humor.

Greg Evans

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

Woody Allen

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

Woody Allen

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Richard M. Nixon

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Robin Williams

Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?

Robert Reich

Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Evan Osnos

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.

Mike Sherman

He said he was fine. I said, 'I can tell something is wrong here. What's wrong?' He wouldn't tell me, ... It took me about 10 minutes to get it out of him. Finally, he told me.

Lori Miller

He seemed extraordinarily strong, and not for even one minute did we think he was not going to make it.

Bob Denver

I think it's all been fantastic. It has only been 45 minutes and we've already done really well.

Rob Judson

I thought we played well on offense for the first 4 minutes of the second half. The next four, however, we didn't have it. And that's where they made their run.

Paul McGee

I thought he did really good. I got him just under a minute and two.

Craig Rasmuson

I think we did what we needed to do for 40 minutes of basketball.

Jackie Barto

I thought our team played hard. I thought over the weekend we played 125 minutes of pretty solid hockey, so I'm pleased with what we did this weekend.

Kara Swisher

I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.

Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Emo Philips

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

James Cash Penney

The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.

Lucy Lawless

Yeah. I'm saving the world from vampire bats, ... It's very serious business.

Jonathan Schwartz

That is not profound, but in a 64-way setting you are saving a lot of money.

Marshall Brickman

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

Martin Lewis

Most savings rates are based on underlying interest rates.

Patrick Ness

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Tom Moran

Whatever happens, this should not slip by unnoticed.

Jan Ullrich

Today, I had trouble because it was slippery and dangerous,

Evan Lysacek

I'm going to slip in under the radar. I know I'm ready. I know I'm trained.

Jonathan Haidt

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

Jeff Lindsay

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

Chauncey Billups

We just want to get another win. We let one slip away down there, and we want to get it back.

Don Marquis

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

Thomas Peterffy

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

Noel Coward

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Richard Hooker

Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.

Richard Dawkins

Scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

W. H. Auden

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

B. C. Forbes

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Charlotte Bronte

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

Stephenie Meyer

But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide?

Mike Hunter

We wouldn't be winning necessarily if it were all sunny days.

Dave Calloway

He does so many things, the big rebound, the right pass. He just does what it takes to win.

Amy Robach

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Lykke Li

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

Josh Gad

If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

Lazarus Sims

I just want to win. I don't really try to do too much. But when it comes down to time to win, then we're going to do what it takes to win.

Kevin Bacon

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again-I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Ben Johnson

I'm going to do whatever it takes to be a better ballplayer.