Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evel Knievel

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.

Anne Lamott

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

Bill Hader

I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.

Carrie Fisher

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

Damien Woody

We could have put the game away with a four-minute drive, and we couldn't even get that accomplished. It was just one of the many disgusting moments in the game. I'm ashamed of it.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I think my body is beautiful, and I'm confident to embrace it. There's nothing to be ashamed of if you're a size 14, as long as you're fit and healthy.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Usually people are ashamed when they do something wrong. People love to live in the darkness... I live in the light. I didn't do anything wrong by saving human life.

Randy Bachman

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

Pauline Gedge

I'm not ashamed to say I love television. I put the TV on, and my brain switches off, and I just sit there for a few hours.

Alice Walker

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do.

Malala Yousafzai

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

Malala Yousafzai

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

Bradley Whitford

We have all lost a dear, dear brother.

Kenny Leon

We've lost a great writer, I think the greatest writer that our generation has seen and I've lost a dear, dear friend and collaborator,

Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

Joyce Smith

I lost two things dear to me this year. I lost my husband and I lost my house,

Alexander Dubcek

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

Ivar Giaever

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ismail Kadare

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.

Olivia Newton-John

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

Raina Telgemeier

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

Dave Forney

We wanted to make sure the kids and employees weren't put in harm's way once we discovered the materials were in the ground there.

Paul Shaffer

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.

Zach Johnson

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

Stanley Hauerwas

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

Drake Bell

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

Tina Brown

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

John McNaughton

You'll find yourself thinking about Henry and saying, 'He's sort of like me.'

Toby Shook

Henry Wade did inspire a lot of young lawyers.

George Piggins

Henry is the face. I support him 100 per cent. I hope people listen to what he's saying rather than playing the man.

Dusty Baker

Henry did what he's supposed to do, get him back on track.

William Shakespeare

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

Cynthia Ozick

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

David Tennant

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

Bob Phillips

Patrick Henry should come back to see what taxation with representation is like

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Martin Bouygues

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Heather Danenhower

Most of our newer prototype stations are about 7,200 square feet, and that station is about 3,500 square feet. It's just a very small station.

Dennis Mills

This will be the prototype racetrack for the world,

Richard Carter

We're providing prototype development and small-to-medium volume manufacturing.

Wes Anderson

A prototype is always more expensive than anything.

James Patterson

Better readers are better thinkers.

Bill Moyers

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

Bill Gates

You can be a business thinker.

Aravind Adiga

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

Scott Fujita

Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

David Bowie

I'm a thinker not a talker.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is there a thinker apart from thought?

Ken Thompson

I am a very bottom-up thinker.