Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Foreman

I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics... No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.

Jane Riley

The group, composed of a trombone, French horn, tuba and two trumpets, performs pieces from the classics to show tunes to Dixieland to original compositions.

Boris Johnson

It's economically illiterate. A degree in classics or philosophy can be as valuable as anything else.

Thom Browne

I do love the provocative side of my collection, but I also like the classics - the simpler skirts and the sweater sets and the shirtdresses. And I always love to see girls in jackets and trousers.

Rick Moody

writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it

John Krasinski

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Robin Wright

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

Johan Bruyneel

We were up there in the Classics and the Tour of Spain as well.

Lauren Tarshis

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Gerald Pruitt

It started off as a hobby. I was never one to do much fishing and hunting. On occasion I did. I was mostly a homebody with a fairy tale marriage. To tell you the truth I was an egghead growing up. I was a bookworm. I kept my head in books, a sort of introverted type person.

Hines Ward

It's a fairy tale come true for him.

Sasha Roiz

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Shana Alexander

The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.

Jennifer McMahon

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

Aaron Small

This is fun. I couldn't have scripted it this way. I'm just hoping for a fairy tale ending.

Steve Hook

I think that took a lot out of them. But they hung tough.

Larry Walker

I was mad at the pitch before being called a strike, I was mad I swung at that, and then he hung me one, ... So, madness, madness, happiness, all in the matter of a minute. Stupid.

John Gibbons

He was in trouble but he hung in there.

Samuel Johnson

Hunger is never delicate.

Sandra Cisneros

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

Khalil Gibran

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

Jon Bon Jovi

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

Octavia Butler

That which could hunger, could starve.

Paul Finebaum

Supposedly the 20 minutes I spend with him every Monday is the most listened to 20 minutes in the state. I've hung up on him and quit two or three times. Last year, though, we went through it without many hangups.

William Wordsworth

A tale in everything.

Polybius

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Susan Fletcher

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Stephen King

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Lindy Ruff

He just doesn't feel right. Until we get him through that, he won't be skating.

Chrissie Fit

I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

Saku Koivu

We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Kathy Bennett

I always wanted to know what was wrong. They could never find anything wrong with her until this.

Stephen Dodd

I am just more focussed. He had got me not to give in, to keep going until the last,

London Fletcher

I really didn't know if I was going to be able to play until right before the game,

Craig Roberts

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.