Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Beasley

Coal keeps the lights on!' And this year it will also keep the lamp of learning burning for the beneficiaries of Concord's scholarship program.

Daniel Gibson

Once you put on that burnt orange, you're a part of that Texas tradition. It's a tradition of excellence.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

Chief Ogden

You should burn very cautiously. If you're burning your trash off, for example in a 55-gallon drum, the big thing is to keep a screen over it and watch for any embers that pop out.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

Bruce Springsteen

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary/Out by the gas fires of the refinery/I'm 10 years burning down the road/Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go,

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up

Alan Ball

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

M. Wolfe

The swelling had gone down and I'm just glad to be back playing. I couldn't wait to get back into the groove.

Barbara Walters

You should be glad you're doing features; (they're) happy, glad (stories).

Patrick Warburton

Even right now, I'm glad to be working.

Rob Potter

Every step you make is just a bonus. We're just glad to be here.

John Hoag

Every year, we do a Santa run and Bobby's always very glad to see us. We all know him personally.

Anna Akhmatova

That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.

Anna Nicole Smith

I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me.

Wendee Saintsing

We were just glad to go down there and get the win. St. Andrews is a hard place for us to play.

Lauri Hakala

Let's just say I'm glad that I stayed and nothing this year is the same as last.

Dwight Hetzell

I've been kicking around this idea for 12 years. It always seemed to be too expensive. I saw this space and said that this was it. I put everything into this.

Christine Feehan

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Kyle MacLachlan

Looking at 70 from 49, I don't see it slowing me down. Maybe I'll need a nap during the day! I'm thinking when I'm 85 I'll settle down a bit. But I'm going to fight, kicking and screaming, every step of the way.

Harold Brodkey

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been

Kevin Connolly

I live in L.A. and love L.A., and you couldn't drag me out of there kicking and screaming.

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

DeShaun Foster

You know what that means, right? There are 30 teams in this league kicking themselves in the butt right now.

Peter Fiske

The recalls were part of their contingency plan. Now, they're kicking these people back to the curb.

Chuck Palahniuk

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

Nasim Pedrad

John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.

Roy Brown

She's the kind of student we want at this University. She's a role model whether she likes it or not.

Merle Friedman

She mentioned that she likes shopping a lot.

Scott Parker

I think they really like him and he likes them.

Jerry Brown

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

Severin Bozung

I like a girl-do you think she likes me?

Shelby Lynne

I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't -- well, it's just not for them.

Karen Armstrong

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Mike Vrabel

I've always tried to think that it was an unwritten rule that you never try to put yourself in another team's locker room.

Ruth Gordon

. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Steve Mariucci

They feel sick in that locker room, because we thought we had it, thought we won it, and then it was not to be, ... It tests your resiliency.

Chad Ambuehl

It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those quick shots we made right out of the locker room were really big for us.

Phillip Fulmer

We're going to miss him in the locker room as a leader. I know Jason. He'll be around and part of what we're trying to do.

Larry Brown

With this win, in that locker room, they needed something positive.

Kim Clijsters

We were talking even when we were walking on the court, ... It was fun. Afterwards, in the locker room, as well, we were chatting. That's how it should be.

Brian Simmons

The thing about it is nobody is out there freelancing. Everybody's playing within the parameters of what we are doing.

Mickey Rourke

Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Jane Walsh

The work (Ryerson) did was really groundbreaking. Nobody else had really done that before.

Lucky Wurtz

You give him a one-game season and there's nobody better.

Jack Pitney

There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.

Andrew Albert

Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked.

Ed Emmett

Nobody wants the congestion to end more than the shippers.

Marion Hammer

Nobody wants state parks to be open, no one thinks state parks should be open for hunting.

John Zeoli

Nobody thought we could do anything this season without Keith Brumbaugh. They all thought the program was going to go downhill.

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Jane Austen

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Matt Hendricks

We talked in this room that we had to start showing a little support for the support we get up in the stands.

Daniel Radcliffe

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

Cory Doctorow

When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.

Alexander McCall Smith

There is room in history for all of us.

Drew Barrymore

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Douglas Wilson

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Alex Garland

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Ambrose Bierce

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

Alfred Hitchcock

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Andy Stern

UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.

William Shakespeare

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

Thomas Hood

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Raymond Carver

But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.