Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Wood

Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.

George Hamilton

The skill development came along but we never quite came together as a team. It could have been because of the small injuries and other things along the way, but things just never clicked.

Dan Miceli

I've been around young guys. I guess I get along in the clubhouse and with the bullpen guys. If I can help them in any kind of way, I will.

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Pat Riley

Somewhere along the way, for us to step up, we've got to beat good teams.

Theresa Grentz

Somewhere along the line you've got to believe that you're here to win this stupid game and win it. This team has played some very, very good basketball and it's going to continue to play good basketball. I just wish for them that it would just happen.

George Barrett

Somewhere along the line you have got to say we have reached some kind of understanding where race really doesn't make a difference. But unfortunately we are not there yet.

James Brady

Somewhere along the line, you and others entered into a scheme where you took the names of impoverished, Medicaid-eligible students and billed the state of Louisiana for those services -- even though some of those children never saw the inside of your office, ... That's what the crime is, here.

Gino Guyer

Somewhere along the line we lost a step from our long winning streak and never got it back. We never regained the same level where we were at and I don't know why.

Aziz Ansari

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

Brad Williams

I don't know why you'd go to a comedian and say, "You know what? You have a large menu of items, but this one thing I did not like and therefore, you should be shut down. You should cease to make a living and you should be thrown out in the streets."

Aubrey Plaza

Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.

Doug Stanhope

The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

Tom Green

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

Taylor Momsen

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

Marcus Brigstocke

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

Jim Gaffigan

Even when you hear about a comedian getting married, among comedians, we're always kind of like, what are they doing?

Jim Gaffigan

I love stand-up comedians. I really do.

Carmen Electra

I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Demetri Martin

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Demetri Martin

I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"

Damon Runyon

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Barry Humphries

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

Britney Spears

Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool.

James Howe

When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.

Sharon Stone

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Billy Connolly

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Tom Odell

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

Edward Irving

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

Dom DeLuise

I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table.

Orawin Velz

Double-digit increases in home prices are not sustainable.

Steve Alford

I know Jeff was very much in pain. But he was phenomenal in the second half.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

John C. Maxwell

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

Nikki Haley

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

Phil Leigh

The labels are pushing the subscription services approach.

Marco Rubio

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Tika Sumpter

I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening.

Dolores Huerta

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Tomi Taterka

People are talking about another problem in Argentina.

Lee McConnell

People are taking this storm quite seriously." ()

Dorothy Poindexter

People are sweet this time of year and it's great.

David Peck

People are surprised by my portion size and portion control.

David Mann

People are still not sure if we will see 8.11 (yuan per dollar) for the rest of the year or the rest of the week.

Ruth Rendell

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

Chris Payne

People are starting to understand this is not your father's Astroturf.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Ron Ziegler

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

Mia Kirshner

I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.

Roger King

She was on 'A.M. Chicago,' so I went in and I saw the show. And I saw her, and I saw this tremendous talent. I mean, she jumped right through that set and talked to people.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Richard Foreman

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

Connie Mack

I always saw this as a 2006 issue.

Nathalie Dechy

I was really upset when I saw that this morning. I think it's really bad.

Estelle

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

Fiona Shaw

Theater dates very quickly.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.