Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Richelle Mead

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

Richelle Mead

Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

Willie Aames

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

William Mathews

So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.

William Wordsworth

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

William Wordsworth

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

William Wordsworth

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

Roald Dahl

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Kenny Cunningham

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Krist Novoselic

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

Juice Newton

I've had the big ups and the big downs.

Emma Goldman

Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.

John Doerr

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Jimmy Wales

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Louise Rennison

Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.

Thomas Powell

Joy, living in the moment, plus lack of fear equals abundance. Live for the moment without fear and you have all you truly need.

Marlon Devonish

To come back from the World Championships and equal my PB was very, very pleasing,

Ron Rainey

I think it was very equal out there today. It was really a one-goal game and I think we played that way defensively.

Lewis Sharp

It has an equal value to the Hamilton Building.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Steve Mitchell

He has a ways to go (to equal SLM Big Daddy), but they're a lot alike, ... Don has said the older he gets, the more he reminds him of 'Big Daddy' - temperament, they're all business. This one's a little more lovable.

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

William Makepeace Thackeray

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.