Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Dangerfield

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Sarah Dessen

I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

William Ralph Inge

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Rick Wakeman

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

Dennis Hastert

Our brothers, cousins, uncles, husbands, neighbors were in the war, ... Not everyone's cousin or uncle is in this war.

Joseph Kennedy

I guess my first reaction was 'Ask not what you can do for your cousin but what you can do for his magazine.

Khaled Hosseini

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.

Jonathan Swift

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

Louise Erdrich

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

John Beilein

It's very, very impressive right now for a freshman playing in that type of pressure situation.

Joe Gordillo

They've been preparing for this all year long. (The Monticello match) was a little too exciting. Obviously, if you wrote a story, this is what you'd want - freshman has to get the pin to win.

Diane Laffey

You don't get a kid like this one too often. She's worked hard from day one (her freshman year).

Lindsay Bowen

It's a tough race, but, I don't know, I like it. I never ran the 400 until my freshman year in high school but I'm pretty good at it and I like it.

Brian Kolze

It was the first month of her freshman year. When someone can do that, I knew it could be something special, and so did our team.

Jerry Butler

The seniors here are about pushing you and motivating you to get better. They're not about, 'You're a freshman trying to take my job.' If you can play, they're going to push you to get better. Right now, I'm learning and they're helping.

Rudy Morrow

After my freshman year when I got the gold in the 200 I was really excited. The 100 was a little too short for me.

Mike Wheeler

We're just trying new stuff. You've got to make some changes, give the young kids a chance. You saw three sophomores and a freshman out there tonight. Some of the younger kids put in a lot of time during the summer. We're shuffling people in. It's tough.

Kenton Paulino

I don't think of him as a freshman anymore. To come in and play like he did in a game like this shows how mature he is.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Ryan Routzon

Everyone has to step up. Lucas can't be leading us all the time.

Rashad Anderson

It?s very tough on a lot of teams to have your opponent?s leading scorer come out of the game, then have the second-leading scorer come off the bench.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Michael Dell

and we are a leading seller of servers, storage systems and other technology products and services.

Terry Hoeppner

We are going to have 200 motorcycles leading us down (Indiana) 37. They are going to be leading us back into Bloomington.

John Ruskin

Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.

Eddie Davis

I was very upset. They pulled it Saturday. I thought I was going to USF. But they said that since I moved on they were moving on.

Patti Smith

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

Jean Reno

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Rich Falter

He was struggling more because we were playing him so much underneath. When we moved him out, he seemed to start playing the way he had played in the past.

Brian Boyle

I moved out to give Brock an option. I had my back to the net, so I just shot it to an area.

Katherine Harris

I'm actually very sensitive about those things, and it's personally painful, ... You'd have to be a stone not to be moved by these things.

Joe Glowacki

You could see it moved him, there were tears in his eyes.

Coach Bell

The C team played very well and the moved a lot. I was proud of the way they played.

Deb Kapp

The banners can be moved around so if you habitually travel on one street, you won't always look at the same banner.

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Junichiro Koizumi

My first priority will be postal system reform,

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Clint Bowyer

I need as much seat time as I can. Because most of these tracks I am going to, I have never been to before.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Anthony Davis

It has to be like Hawaii. We went in there and it was about basketball, and we took them one at a time.

Kimberly Smith

It took a long time, in part because it was a donation.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Karlyn Supple

It took a little wind out of our sails.

Gina Jones

They just don't know what they took away from me.

Brett Nelson

It was like our other matches. He took fifth, so he did pretty good.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Wallace Stevens

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

William Butler Yeats

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

Vladimir Nabokov

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

William P. Young

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

Jose Saramago

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

Kevin Spacey

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.