Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Robin McKinley

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Dorothy Allison

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

Doris Lessing

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

e. e. cummings

Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

Adam Sandler

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

Geno Auriemma

Any time like you have a really good point guard like they do, you have a chance to have a really good team. Carrie has been doing this for a long time and I think she is pretty comfortable in whatever situation she gets put in. She has a really good group of players that are pretty versatile.

Ed Dunlop

As for the future hopefully he will carry on but today is the day, let's live it up.

John Walls

As a customer I'm responsible for my device. I need to know, just like my car keys.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Wayne Pearson

People think dealers are making $10,000 a car but these guys are actually battling. The opportunities to make money come from other things than the sale of the vehicle.

Astro Teller

People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.

Richard Porter

People can't change where they live. They can't change where they work, and there aren't any clear substitutes to gas. You can't run your car on much else. It's not like switching from oranges to grapefruits.

Dan Castellaneta

It is better to watch things then to do them.

Andy Samberg

If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.

Sally Rand

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

Tim Roth

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

Vidal Sassoon

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

Tamara Tunie

I always watch the work I do.

Shawn Ashmore

Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.

Michael Douglas

I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end.

Ray Bradbury

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.