Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.

Vikram Seth

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

Ben Edlund

The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Carrie Underwood

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

Bill Bryson

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

Bette Davis

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Paul Horn

It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

Courtney Smith

Mostly they keep them put away, but if they get bored they might play a game or take a picture.

Christi Elias

We have a motto this year that says, 'Katrina crushed our school, but not our spirit' and we've tried to live by that. The toughest part is that most of my team is living in FEMA trailers. That's been a huge transition for them. And then we've not only lost key players, but friends.

Gary Gaetti

I think everybody's feeling better today. But there's still a feeling of your town is getting crushed and nobody knows what's going on.

Colin Murray

He had no idea what Matthews was doing, and he was crushed when he found out.

Ned Yost

I don't have any idea how far it went but he crushed it.

Hwang Suk

I feel so crushed and humiliated that I hardly have the energy to say I am sorry. I seek your forgiveness.

Frank Haith

We knew we were getting crushed on the boards. They overwhelmed us on the glass. He took ownership of that.

Jeff Gundy

We're a team that does ... just enough to put yourself in a position and not enough good to win. That was poor defense, poor, poor defense. They scored 49 points in a half with very marginal offensive players. When they missed, they crushed us on the boards.

Randall Bispo

Our kids are a little crushed by it. But I told the kids this might not be the last time we play them.

Blaine Boyer

That crushed me. That was one of the hardest things I've ever had to deal with. We fought so stinking hard to get where we were. Then I couldn't help.

William Shakespeare

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

William Shakespeare

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

William Shakespeare

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

Joe Paterno

I thought we showed some greatness last night.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Dave Chappelle

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Carl Sagan

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.