Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Chris Bohjalian

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

Bette Davis

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Ashton Kutcher

I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.

Bill Vaughan

If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.

Petra Nemcova

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Larry Meyers

You just take the water for granted and you use it as you normally would. But then you go somewhere else, and you start drinking their water. You can taste the difference.

Jonathan Tucker

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, I’d probably jump off a bridge.

William Shakespeare

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

Robert Corn

He was very ginger in practice (earlier in the week). But he played through it. ... And this is the kind of injury that would put a lot of players out for two or three weeks.

Kreayshawn

I was super-obsessed with the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favorite. They had a tour in 2008, and my home girls went, but I didn't have the money to go!

Ron Gardenhire

I still think he runs a little ginger at times. But he's doing everything he has to do. I'm never going to say never until we get down to the end of spring training. I think you just leave your options open.

Jason Flemyng

I'm ginger, so it's hard to rate me

Annette Bening

They did really adventurous traveling together. She talked about that. She talked about what a great reader he was, that he would read up on where they were going. It's completely fascinating to talk to her. I was ? and she said that when they were dancing, he made her feel like Ginger Rogers.

Chris Reed

They didn't even recognize the real ginger root I had in my booth!

Jane Huff

In the 1950s, my mother made this gown, ... It's (patterned on) a Ginger Rogers gown.

Annette Bening

I just sort of took her lead. She was guiding the conversation. She's an old lady now, 82 or so, and she was sort of surprised that we were making the story. She said nice things about him. She said he was a great traveler. ... And she said he was a great dancer, that he made her feel like Ginger Rogers.

Katy Perry

I have to be a ginger for 3 weeks.

Robbie Caldwell

Merritt is stepping up his game. Hamilton is stepping up his game. I hope Elliott Hood will step up now and that we can get something out of him.

Hannah Storm

I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

William Shakespeare

Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea, as an idea. And about Hamas as an organization, of course, the Hamas leadership, including my father, they're responsible; they're responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization.

Steve Giordano

Hamilton wrestled a smart match and really stayed on the offensive. He really took it to J.C. and got the takedowns when he needed. J.C. is always in the match so it was competitive throughout. Hopefully that's the last time we see J.C. this year.

Ray Corbett

Hamilton was a team we thought was to be league favorites.

Richard Engel

Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

William Shakespeare

From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Gwen Moore

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

Gail Carson Levine

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Alber Elbaz

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Jim Butcher

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

Hubert H. Humphrey

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

Chris O'Dowd

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

Shane Battier

Sometimes you've got to eat a turd sandwich; makes the ribeye taste better next time.

Patrick Rothfuss

Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

Homer

Be generous in the bedroom. Share your sandwich.

Nathalie Dupree

We're just starving and there's no time to eat.