Famous Quotes & Sayings

Piero Grasso

With this arrest, the Mafia has been beheaded.

Daniel Radcliffe

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

Douglas Horton

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Davy Jones

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

Davy Jones

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.

David Chase

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

Noam Chomsky

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

Noam Chomsky

Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

Fidel Castro

This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.

Isabella Bird

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.

Orlando Bloom

I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

Greg Walker

I was here when the Bears won, I know how big they were. Every player had his own restaurant.

Tim Flannery

Polar bears are going to go with the ice cap. They're not going to actually last that long.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits that strict justice.

Brian Griese

I don't think any player worth his salt is content to be a backup, especially someone who has been a starter before. So I'm not going to resign myself to anything. I'm going to try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

John Bollinger

What worries me is that we haven't really seen a sign of strength, a point where the bears are overpowered by the bulls and throw in the towel, ... That would indicate a dramatic shift -- essentially the breaking of the camel's back.

Joe Clark

I think it is probably just a matter of there being more bears and more people in bear range than ever before.

Spencer Waller

The purpose is so that important cases brought by the government can get definitive resolution quickly and be sped to the top of the ladder. This is the most important case that the government has brought in a generation, so I think it bears the strongest chance.

Yael Stone

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

Walead Beshty

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

Brina Palencia

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

David Steinberg

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

Carrie Fisher

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Carl Reiner

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Carl Rogers

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Bette Davis

Yes, burn your bridges.

Anthony Storr

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.