Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

Craig Patrick

We expect that he will be able to begin exercising in a matter of days and return to the lineup in a brief period of time.

Joe Buckley

We expect European company margins to reverse a seven-consecutive-quarter trend of year-over-year declines and begin to show recovery. This could be an inflection point for European profitability.

Sam Koch

We're very pleased to begin the season 1-1.

Greg Mack

We're very excited to see his tenure begin here. He seems to be someone of high character. He comes highly recommended from everyone we've talked to. He stood out in the field of candidates.

Jack Myers

(USA) has been the No. 1 or 2 cable network for a while and (raising ratings further) is a challenge to begin with, ... Nonetheless, I'm sure it's a disappointment for NBC Universal.

Nick Fazekas

We feel like we dug ourselves a hole to begin with. We had to dig ourselves out. We're tied for first. It's the middle of the season. It doesn't mean anything. We have to keep winning, keep this thing going.

Peter Ashkenaz

You have to remember that Congress created the Part D program to begin January 1, 2006. So we put all the contingencies in place to handle as much as we did.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Toby Hall

It's such a slow pitch, it catches everybody off guard. I love calling it because I love to see the expressions on the hitters' faces.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Desi Arnaz

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

Anthony Bourdain

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Don Beck

We don't like calling him a janitor. He does way more than that.

Ali Rodriguez

We are not putting pressure on others. We are calling for contributions.

Chopper Mello

We've been calling it Super Tuesday. I spent an hour (Monday) just talking to our kids. I just wanted to get a gauge for where they're at heading into the match.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Janet Sacavage

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Ethan Moreau

The guys who know him know we're getting a good friend back, but we're also getting a guy who can help us in a big way.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

You can't tell your friend you've been cuckolded; even if he doesn't laugh at you, he may put the information to personal use

Carla Grayson

The key is that your friend needs to help you sort out your thoughts and help you problem-solve and move to the next stage. Simply ruminating with a friend is not going to help.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Pat Rafter

The way he's playing right now I think it's very hard for him to keep winning.

Joe Henderson

The water's all the way up to the roof and it's just one of those things you've never seen. It's hard to describe,

Roman Kostomarov

The rink is much smaller than the standard Olympic size so it's hard to skate perfectly, but I think we did okay.

Roman Kostomarov

The rink is much smaller than standard Olympic size, so it's hard to skate perfectly. We've only had two practices at this rink before today.

Jim Haslett

This is going to be a long, hard year, ... We're going to be gypsies. We don't know where we're going to live, where we're going to stay, where we're going to be playing. But it could be worse.

Chris Hanners

This is heaven-sent for the Paints, but it is also going to make a lot of kids proud to work hard and come out here and play. The Paints are only going to use this a very small percentage of the time, and when the high schools or the Little League teams come out here to play, it's going to be very nice for them.

Ed Churchwell

This is hard to do from within the galaxy.

Ed Iacobucci

This is hard stuff. There's a lot of new science involved.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Flip Saunders

He's still a young guy. He's going to be an All-Star (one day). Who knows? Maybe he'll still get voted in. We'll have to see what happens.

Bus Cook

I don't think Steve's going to take a pay cut. He's scheduled to make $9 million, maybe $10 million this year. Why would you take less?

Robinson Cano

I don't think I'm going to play. Maybe they'd use me once in a while, but I want to win a world championship. If I go there, I'll be sitting on the bench, and I want to get ready for the season.

Hannah Teter

I don't think I'm going to change. I'll just keep smiling. So maybe I'll get my teeth whitened.

Henrik Lundqvist

I don't really think about it. Maybe I do after the game.

Eddie Jordan

I don't know if he's getting enough touches down there. I don't know if it's my fault. Maybe it is.

Ian Thorpe

I didn't think that that was going to happen, ... Maybe what I need is to get up and give more than I had tonight. But I'm really pleased with the way I swam.

Marc Bulger

I didn't even put two and two together. Maybe I should.

Charles Mason

You work on one set and get it implemented and go on to the next one.

Warren Jeffs

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

Brent Jennings

(The Devils) want to send out the seniors the right way and get things ready for next year -- and come away with a state title.

Bill Torni

This is one the Cougars should have won. I know next time we play this team they will be much tougher than they were today.

Haley Barbour

This is all stuff we'll be able to pick up and work on next week,

Bob Lay

All I can do is pray we have enough time to get everything finished. If we get through this year with nothing, we'll be in better shape next year.

Emmitt Smith

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Og Mandino

Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.

Emilie Autumn

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

Raquel Welch

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

James Nesbitt

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

Phyllis Pedrizzetti

People don't want to work that hard. You can't just take over. You have to start your own business. It's not like starting a 7-Eleven.

Cindy Mannes

People don't want to tell you they have them.

Gary Shaw

People don't want to come in. They feel they're unsafe in the shopping area.

Lucy Ivins

People don't want to be managed, they want to be led.

Josh Homme

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

CeeLo Green

People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'

Asif Kapadia

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

John Travolta

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

John Philpot Curran

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

Michael Caine

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

Mason Cooley

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

S. Walker

Ridiculous. I couldn't talk for like 20 minutes.

Lou Piniella

My talk in Toronto was from the heart, ... It was from the heart.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Branch Rickey

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Bob Dole

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

Brenda Laurel

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

Billy Boyd

I think Scotland has some great stories.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Doris Lessing

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

Doris Lessing

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Donna Summer

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.