Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jake Epstein

The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.

Ben Ainslie

The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy that I could cope with the wind and win.

Emmy Rossum

When I talked to Joel about it I said that the one important thing for me was that she is the one real centre in all this theatricality.

Phil Carlson

Friday night in Sauk Centre was a rough night. We started off playing tough but did not convert on key free throws once we were in the bonus. This led to some momentum for Sauk, and they capitalized.

Damon Galgut

I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

John Bercow

There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

Steve Bruce

When he was leaving Celtic, Gordon Strachan said to me: 'You'll not work with a better centre forward'.

Michael Brown

Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.

Robert Barany

Close investigations, however, proved something more namely that within such a centre there was also localization with regard to joints.

Casey Stengel

I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.

Aaron McLear

We had such a successful convention in 2000, we knew Philadelphia could handle it.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

Ralph Brennan

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

Justin Trudeau

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Michael Long

If our party's convention was held next week, I think Spencer would be the choice.

Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life.

Barack Obama

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

George Takei

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

Fred Lewis

The system is the problem. It's not the people. Whatever we paid them, it would be well worth it to cut them from being subsidized by private interests. It's wrong.

Carl Laundrie

The storm is eating up our dunes. It has cut up right next to the road.

Carole Strayhorn

It would be wrong to use this session to only cut property taxes when Texas needs long-term solutions for our fundamental priorities.

Brandon Sanderson

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

Aziz Ansari

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Atticus Shaffer

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Jamie Bell

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Jason Calacanis

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

Tom Galloway

I see so many older folks get up there on ladders and try to do it themselves. They should keep that ladder in their garage.

Larry Hall

We had a waiting list then and we hope to have another one soon. Even though we lost some folks over the years, that group remains our largest.

Kenneth Miller

Curiously, these folks don't do research, they do public relations and lobbying,

Mike Heatwole

Folks from D.C. come up here from time to time to look at a wide variety of things. We don't get very many takers in the wintertime, but we always offer.

Mike Schofield

Folks don't suddenly become tax hawks once they get to Austin.

Richard Doherty

Folks (at the FCC) are rubbing their hands as to how wild it could go and at the same time popping aspirins as to how disappointing it could be,

Mark Cavanaugh

We couldn't have better folks leading the charge.

Howard Smith

We've had a lot of traffic. We've had a lot of out-of-town folks and that was good.

Jeb Bush

People had ample time to prepare. It isn't that hard to get 72 hours worth of food and water,

Joe Morgan

A plate of spaghetti back then was $1.50, and it was very good food, that's why it lasted,

Joel Fuhrman

Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

Jose Andres Puerta

The right use of food can end hunger.

Barbara Jordan

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Dave Williams

We are here to provide the most good to the most people. If they want to stay, we give them food and water. If they want to leave, we rescue them.

Jane Smiley

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

Craig Claiborne

Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

Theresa Collins

And we usually order three to four more times the food than we do for a regular (weekend of soccer).

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

John Connell

Obviously, we're playing a high-quality team. It's not something you can practice for. We learned a lot today.

James Tobin

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Randy Moss

There's no telling what you are going to see,

Anne Frank

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Grover Cleveland

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

Benedict Lucchesi

He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,

John Burdett

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

Mother Jones

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

Brit Marling

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Keith Kramme

It'll be interesting to see what the mind-set is of this group. I think it's going to be good, but we won't know until we take the field.

Jimmy Fletcher

It was pretty much nip and tuck until the end.

Omar Jacobs

It's going to keep going until I retire, so I think it's something that will always be there. When it changes, it changes. If it doesn't, it doesn't. As long as I'm productive, I don't think it should matter.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle.With a label on it.

Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend.

Amy Carmichael

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

Alphonse Karr

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

Andy Weir

I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

Angela Bassett

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

Alton Brown

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Robert Fulghum

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.