Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Reiner

As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.

James Browning

After a few years we found that these items didn't work. It took a lot of time to deal with them, plus they took up a lot of space. So we put the other stuff aside and migrated back to the book business, something we really felt very comfortable with.

Carole Strayhorn

After nine legislative sessions full of name-calling, our school funding is in crisis, property taxes are up and judges are having to do our governor's job. We all know that unless we set politics aside we'll never fix what's broke.

Meredith Grey

Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?

Melissa Harwell

Sometimes we have to put our own desires aside to see his. During the whole IVF procedure, I felt like God was telling me not to do it. I just had to make sure I wasn't hearing him wrong, so I did it anyway. Now, over $12,000 later, I wish I would have trusted that he was indeed talking to me. I know I heard him calling us to foster care/adoption. This time I didn't hesitate to make sure I heard him right. His voice was way too clear.

Wang Xuming

Rural schools are forbidden to collect any other fee aside from the three permitted categories.

Martin O'Malley

Putting aside competitive interests for a new kind of collaboration, Maryland pioneered a real-time encounter notification service to alert primary care doctors when their patients are hospitalized.

Barbara Ward

Put aside the politics please, just for one minute. Forget about those jobs promised and think of your most important role of all, that of being a parent.

Edward Wolff

It would be very unusual for workers to make up for the shortfall and it might certainly be a good way to shock people into saving more -- tell them they now have to put aside 12 percent of the earnings.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Chris Bell

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Craig Smith

is like the mad cow calling the herd rabid.

Mary Berry

They already feel mistreated. By calling them refugees, I think, makes them feel less American.

Noam Chomsky

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Ken Starr

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

Granth Sahib

Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.

Plato

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

quran quran

Whoever desires the gain of the hereafter, We will give him more of that again; and whoever desires-- the gain of this world, We give him of it, and in the hereafter he has no portion.

Mickey Loomis

I knew what his desires were, but we didn't get to that point. We talked about four or five different scenarios.

J. Taylor

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Orison Swett Marden

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

William Bell

The T1 line went down at work the other day and I felt like I was working with half a brain,

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Lorenzo Meyer

A frantic response by bureaucrats who felt the (student) movement was threatening their grip on power.

Stephen McPherson

Once we saw it was not launching, we felt like unfortunately it was not going to get better and we had to make a change.

Todd Engle

It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened that we had a successful run, but it was of major importance to the kids to get that win. I could really tell in the fourth quarter and there was a lot of excitement.

Chris Kempf

It was another good start by us. But I felt we needed to put more pressure on them. The way it started out, it looked like it was going to be a slugfest.

Jean Brunnenkant

It was a challenge, but something I felt I could do.

Sorin Cerin

The soul is the quill with which God wrote his Words of Genesis.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Cam Newton

I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Bertrand Russell

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen.

Kate Winslet

When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Billy Connolly

If you haven't heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.

Scott Owens

When I heard this morning, I said 'What?

Ian Hunter

When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono)

Steve Clark

To be honest, I never even thought of it or heard of it.

Michael Chapman

There have been a number of people who have said, 'We've heard it all before,'?

Eddie Van Halen

I have selective hearing.

Scott Krugman

From what we've been hearing Saturday was a huge day for sales and a huge day for traffic,

Chrissy Teigen

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people.

Brandon Gray

I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,

Pat Robertson

I'm hearing from the Lord that it's going to be like a blow-out election.

Rick Moore

That's very, very disappointing. My frustration is we can't get a hearing and can't get the subject matter on the floor.

George Herbert

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

Georg Brandes

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.

Vonetta Flowers

He's much more vocal. Everything is so new to him. He was operated on just two months ago, so he's hearing and responding like a 2-month-old baby.

Ibrahim Jaafari

If we find any truth in these claims, we will not hesitate to take up the matter with Iranian authorities,

Gordon Brown

If we did not get the result that we wanted, we would not hesitate to use our veto.

Theresa May

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

Russell Smith

I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.

Zach Hall

This is indeed a day of celebration after what I would say was a long taxi down the runway.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Larry Coker

I think he's ready. Will he make some mistakes? I'm sure he will. He is also a big playmaker. He'll make you make some mistakes, also.

Jack Morris

I sure wouldn't want to have to do that,

Jerramy Stevens

I sure wish he'd make more catches like that in the real games.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.

Craig Monroe

If I had stopped, set, and then thrown, we wouldn't have had a chance. I wasn't sure it was going to work, but it did.

Rafael Palmeiro

I am not sure when I'm going to play.

Shana Martin

I am not a perfectionist, I just have to make sure things are done right.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Brian Chesky

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

Bradley Whitford

I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.

Randy Moss

There's no telling what you are going to see,

Anne Frank

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Charles Bishop

No! ... You're telling me if three commissioners tell me I've got to sign, I've got to sign? I don't think so.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Foxy Brown

It feels so good to tell the truth

Emily Saliers

Always tell the truth and be true.

Greg Cox

When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

Grover Cleveland

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Aesop

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Sidney Sheldon

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

Boz Scaggs

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Carol Burnett

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.

Miley Cyrus

I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

Daniel Handler

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

Coco Chanel

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

Brian Wilson

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

Bob Dylan

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Damon Lindelof

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

Edward Abbey

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.