Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Curtis Anderson

I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.

Ed Muniz

Katrina dealt us a bad hand. But to say you're going to cut Mardi Gras is the wrong approach. That would be another financial hit for the city as well as a psychological hit.

James Haynes

Joe has good feet, ... If something broke down, I felt he could get away easily. The other night (against DeSoto) he got a bad snap, made this guy miss and that guy miss, and before you knew it, he broke it to the sidelines for about 30 yards.

Richard Kohn

I think it flatly is a bad thing. How can you prosecute a war if the military and civilians don't trust each other?

Richard Kohn

I think it flatly is a bad thing.

Kevin Harvick

I think it is going to be cool to drive the No. 47 KISS Ray-Sat Silverado at Richmond, ... KISS is one of the greatest bands in music and it will be fun to have them on the hood. The truck race at Richmond is always exciting. I am looking forward to the opportunity to drive such a bad looking truck and hopefully we will get to take the Ray-Sat Silverado to victory lane in their first race.

Sheldon Souray

I think it caught the end of my stick. I wanted to challenge him, but it was just a bad break.

Mario Batali

I think Italian food is easier to like and love and less intimidating than most. So people overestimate my contribution, not in a bad way or a good way. It's just that my food is simpler than a lot of other chefs' food, and that makes it more accessible, and possibly easier to eat.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Helen Oyeyemi

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

Richard Cohen

I was 13 when Dr. King was slain. I didn't have the opportunity to know him. But reading Taylor's books make me feel that I do know Dr. King.

Ashley Johnson

I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Bruce Jackson

Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don't think a commercial publisher was willing to take it on. But for us, it was interesting because it combined photographs with the essay.

Malorie Blackman

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Chuck D.

Joey is a phenomenal talent and his knowledge of the sport and athleticism are off the chart. Now everything is coming together for him.

Nick Saban

I talked to Ricky and Ricky still seems to be very, very interested in coming back.

Steve Nash

I talked to him before that, too, and his heart wasn't into coming back,

Nate Harris

I think it's a combination of a lot of things. We have a good arena, we always get a good crowd, and the travel is difficult for teams coming in here.

Michael Brown

I think I told him that we were realizing our worst nightmare, that everything we had planned about, worried about, that FEMA, frankly, had worried about for 10 years was coming true.

Sen. Bell

I think it deserves a full hearing before the full House committee. Secondhand smoke is not just an annoyance. It is a health hazard, and Virginians are coming forward every day to tell us this is something they want addressed.

Sara Parson

It can get very tiring. I've been bruised, bloodied, and broken, but I keep coming back because I love the sport.

Erik Johnson

It can be intimidating, but once you're there, you realize no one is looking at you. You realize that not everyone is in great shape - they're coming to the gym to get fit, too.

Bobby Jenks

Heck yeah I was available. There was no way I wasn't coming in.

Gabriel Jafet

On top of everything, there are lots of rumors on Argentina, which depress the market a lot.

Peter Hitchens

Despite the increase, there is nothing to suggest that the group will be able to increase its growth prospects, which should depress returns.

Steve Carell

You're telling me I have a gift for the pathetic. I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

Brian Acton

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.

Ben Moody

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

Barbara Pym

You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

Laura Mvula

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Alain de Botton

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Bobby Cox

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

Theresa May

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

Ibrahim Jaafari

If we find any truth in these claims, we will not hesitate to take up the matter with Iranian authorities,

Gordon Brown

If we did not get the result that we wanted, we would not hesitate to use our veto.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Mike Moore

We take it from the house and turn it into what you see here.

Robert Hoehn

I think by the end of next week they'll be cheaper. We'll get through some House legislation yet.

Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Winslow Homer

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

Rick Riordan

You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.

Veronica Roth

The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?

Vince Vaughn

I don't like dates. If you meet someone that you like then meet them out somewhere. That's good because that's comfortable. I don't like the feeling of going to pick someone up that I don't know that well at their house and then take them to kind of a formal restaurant.

Vince Vaughn

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

Martin Freeman

Once you've switched that switch, then, though you notice that other people are great, you're just not interested.

Carl Clausen

You're permitted one to a parcel. If there's more than one, we send out a notice of violation.

Kato Kaelin

Did you notice anything occur in your room as a result of those thumps on the wall?

Robert Wilson

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

Nick Barth

More people are starting to notice that we're here.

Jonathan Plucker

People notice things like cutbacks. They do notice, even if they don't have school-aged children. They really are paying attention.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Randy Bachman

I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

Tommy Bowden

They ran a lot of pursuit drills. If you noticed they ran a whole bunch. They ran their tails off pretty good. That's while they're dragging.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Cornelia Funke

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.