Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Alan Bennett

The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Al Jarreau

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

Nancy Long

We want them to have moms and dads and normal families.

Chick Corea

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

Chief Joseph

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

China Mieville

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

Eddie Marsan

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

Eddie Murphy

My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Luke Mitchell

I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

Bjorn Borg

I just hated to lose.

Ken Spencer

A lot of people that have spent years with film hated to go to digital.

Harmony Korine

I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

Nabil Sha'ath

It reminds people of everything that we hated about occupation. This is the time to stop that. This is the time to stop all assassinations and all violence and all terror from all sides.

Jim Yerkovich

It was getting to the point that I hated to see him come to practice.

Chris Squire

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Clive Sinclair

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Mark Page

It's a strange situation to have one set of regulations in one port and not in others, isn't it?

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Richard Cripps

The Nasdaq is simply crowding out the rest of the market. If you are a portfolio manager, you have to own some of these (technology) names.

William Alger

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

Carlos Mencia

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Jeff Perreault

The ref made the right call, but it was a tough call.

John Mulcahy

As we thought about it, we thought it was kind of a tough deal: now they have them, now they don't.

Randy Coleman

It's kind of been a tough day in McDowell County.

Michael Schwartz

It's kind of a tough question. The marketplace for this type of collectible is very volatile.

Jamont Gordon

It's just real tough on the road. We got to take it to another level.

Rocky Hager

It's even tougher when you watch the tape. We had our chances. We made some plays.

Jim Epperly

It's a tough place to go and win.

Phillip Fulmer

It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carolyn Porco

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Lamb

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.

Gene Fraise

It's the same as it is at home. We've always worked together.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

David Crystal

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

Douglas Booth

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Sophie Turner

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didn't tell him that when we worked together on 'Another Me.'