Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evel Knievel

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.

Anne Lamott

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

Bill Hader

I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.

Carrie Fisher

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

Damien Woody

We could have put the game away with a four-minute drive, and we couldn't even get that accomplished. It was just one of the many disgusting moments in the game. I'm ashamed of it.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I think my body is beautiful, and I'm confident to embrace it. There's nothing to be ashamed of if you're a size 14, as long as you're fit and healthy.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Usually people are ashamed when they do something wrong. People love to live in the darkness... I live in the light. I didn't do anything wrong by saving human life.

Randy Bachman

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

Pauline Gedge

I'm not ashamed to say I love television. I put the TV on, and my brain switches off, and I just sit there for a few hours.

Michael Kim

If any of you have ever had blasting near your neighborhood, you would know how damaging it is and how scary it is.

Shaukat Sultan

Our investigation revealed that it was blasting on the roadside by engineers, under way exactly at that time when the helicopters was flying over the area,

Brian Dunn

It is a pretty outrageous case. They gained entry by literally blasting down the outside doors with shotguns while people were sleeping.

Michael Franti

Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica, the studio doors are wide open, and there's music blasting out in the street. You can see the reaction of people immediately.

Pat Boyd

That kind of ticked me off and I thought they're blasting all the guys so I say something sarcastic back... a sarcastic response to something I thought was insulting to every man in America.

Amy Vanderbilt

We will have personnel working on this all weekend, ... The boulder is going to require blasting to remove it. We're hoping that will happen today or Sunday at the latest.

Brian Davis

Safety concerns and regulations we have prohibited us from blasting at night. The only time we will be able to perform the blasting will be during the day.

Brian Setzer

I never really did rockabilly exactly like they did it in the '50s, ... We always kind of updated it. But I didn't need to go blasting crazy, wild guitar solos around this stuff. I tried to keep it authentic.

Zhou Shengxian

The issue of pollution has become a blasting fuse for social instability.

Anne Bronte

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

Mitchell Reiss

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

Paul Scott

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

Bernard Cornwell

I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.

Anne Perry

I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine hours a day, six days a week.

Anthony Powell

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Mike Wilson

I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.

Anthony Powell

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Nicholas Mosley

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

Harper Lee

I think Ill be a clown when I get grown.. Yes, sir, a clown. There aint one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so Im gonna join the circus and laugh my head off Im gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of em oughta be ridin a broomstick.

Leslie Brolin

We'll have face painting and hula hoop games and other circus challenges, as well as novelty photo ops things like that.

Jimmy Buffett

I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

Jeremy Roenick

I think it's going to be a circus for them,

Jerry Mackey

We're not good enough to have defensive lapses. Normally, when we score 59 points, that's enough. Offensively, we're doing some good things, but defensively it looks like a circus sometimes.

Edward R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Roberto Aguire

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

Denis Chatelier

I said, 'They gave me a transplant. Now people think I'm a circus freak.

Alice Walker

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Robert Stack

Most everyone with any sense knows that all creatures need a suitable place to live. If the places to live are not sufficient to ensure the recovery of the frog, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to predict the consequences.

George Cuvier

Thus, life on this earth has often been disturbed by dreadful events. Innumerable living creatures have been victims of these catastrophes.

Adoniram Judson

On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.

Bhagavad Gita

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Douglas Jerrold

What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be

Ann Rice

God kills indescriminantly, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

Bobby Miller

Humans are surely the most frightened creatures on earth. We cry out, 'Give us someone to worship, anyone, even a ghost will do.'

Eoin Colfer

I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers. It was great fun.

Ian Mckellen

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

William R. Keating

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

Ellen Key

The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

Bob Stimson

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Louis Font

The Pentagon has instituted this policy to say to the current troops that if you go AWOL you will be hunted down to the grave.

Dennis Ross

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

J. C. Watts

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

John Harmer

We have a major problem with the current engine.

Phil Smith

We could get pulled over for speeding and pay more than that. The problem with the current laws is enforcement.

Jenny Holzer

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

P. J. O'Rourke

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

Orlando Bloom

Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

Kevin Durkin

(Metra) would prefer to let the victim be blamed.

Frank Biondi

We have other partnerships (with Viacom), ... we prefer to be the buyer.

Larry Ellison

You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely.

Joe Flanigan

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

Brian Cook

We'd prefer to have a seven-day break, but there's not much you can do about it.

Jack Roney

We'd prefer this is not in place at all.

Charles Tillman

You always prefer to be in on more plays,

Josh Beekman

We don't get preferred housing, I wish that we did.

Carrie Fisher

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

Carl Sagan

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Bill Vaughan

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .

Bertrand Russell

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

Robert Kiyosaki

The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money.

Charles Roven

In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.

David Dreman

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

Antonis Samaras

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

Carl Jung

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.