Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Mary LeBlanc

When we got married, we had nothing. We had no water, no utilities. There were no screens on the house. There were cracks in the floor big enough you could see the chickens walking under the house.

Scott Faber

What he said was incredibly encouraging, but I'm not counting any chickens yet.

David Smith

We're running around like chickens with our heads cut off.

Randol Schoenberg

It's a decision the whole family has to make; there are four other heirs, we haven't wanted to count the chickens before they hatch. Let's let it sink in a little bit. No decision has been made yet.

Mohammad Afzal

It was a small farm, and we have already destroyed a total 3,500 chickens there.

David Mitchell

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

P. J. O'Rourke

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

Peter Crane

The saying goes, it's not bulls, not bears, but chickens who put their money in cash; they park it there and wait for better opportunities, ... So those chicken investors, and retirees and income investors, have reason to be thrilled about the rates, because for the first time in a while they're going to be paid decently to sit there.

Houssaye Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

Richard Browne

It's a big number, it's about 4 percent of personal income,

John Buchanan

A U.S. taxpayer is subject to income tax on their worldwide income, ... These schemes do not give you any relief from that legally.

David Resler

People are still planning to spend, and today's income numbers tell us that they have the wherewithal to do so.

Koji Kobayashi

The size of the income surplus is approaching that of the trade surplus, and this is a trend worth watching.

Ma Xiaohe

The slower increase of wages for migrant workers, to a large extent, hinders rural families' income growth.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Bruce Sonnenberg

These are single moms who can't make it, it's too hard. They have no income and no way to make money.

Ed Slott

You've got to watch your income this year like no other year, ... Your Tax Questions Answered.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

Alan Ayckbourn

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Harvey Pitt

they shouldn't be paid when they don't produce.

Ron Nadicksbernd

There were times when I couldn't do anything, and when I did, I paid for it.

Richard Owen

This may be a way for producers to get paid to do something they already practice.

Rich Collins

This is what you should grow,' he told me. 'I paid $4 a pound for this stuff.

LeRoy Cain

There's a lot of things to think about, ... There's a lot of things to worry about, and that's what I get paid to do is to worry - and I do it a lot.

Fred Funk

It was one of those things where you're thinking you've got to do more than you had to do. I tried some shots a little too aggressively and paid the price.

Paul Holmes

It was a lunch. It happened. I paid my share.

Will Anderson

It was really awkward. They paid us in pictures.

Bill Coleman

People's pay is a sensitive topic, and most people probably don't want to be told that they're already being paid what they deserve.

Peter Jackson

We are, after all, at the centennial of the Olmstead park plan.

Bernard Baruch

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Tom Hamilton

We have no on-site parking for visitors, family, etc. This is a seniors building. Many of our visitors are seniors and have trouble walking 100 yards.

Joseph Spear

We want people to still be discovering new things about this park in season two,

Matt Lane

A lot of people have stopped going to the park because of the cops.

Chris Jones

They used to go through the parking lot at 30 mph, zip around the corner, then be gone.

Rick Smith

It's about as special a park as you can find.

Adrienne Freeman

It was the coldest recorded temperatures in the park this season.

Ken Livingstone

Property is so dear, the only way to provide parking is to reduce the space.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Beth Moore

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The reason for our loving God is God.

William Shakespeare

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Cate

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.

Bruce Larner

We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Burke Stinson

We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.

Cassie Johnson

We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.

Mitchell Posin

It seems like what Bret's saying makes sense.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Bill Murray

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Andy Brandt

When we get a lead, we have a tendency to sit back.

Tom Rathbun

Work at that site has just come to a standstill.

Paul Phillips

We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.

Bill Gates

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Carolyn Wright

With them having to sit the bench..., it took us completely out of our game.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Mike Lalonde

I understand I'll be the first one from this team, and that does make it special. I'm just thrilled to get picked.

Jarrid Rodriguez

We were thrilled for her. It was awesome.

Tim Mambort

We went in pretty confident. It was all right. I don't think we were that thrilled about it.

Scott Coffey

I am thrilled with the results. I am thrilled he is going home.

Carolyn Clark

I am thrilled for her. It's her dream.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Frank Nelson

She's not real thrilled about me being away so long, but she's very understanding.

Tom Kloza

I can tell you traders aren't thrilled by that idea.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Charles Dickens

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Charles Stanley

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Charles Stanley

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Alan Alda

If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.

Al Pacino

An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

Chris Carrabba

I'll be true, I'll be useful...I'll be cavalier...I'll be yours my dear.and I'll belong to you...if you'll just let me through.this is easy as lovers go,so don't complicate it by hesitating.and this is wonderful as loving goes,this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?

Edith Stein

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.