Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzi Quatro

My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time.

J. R. Bourne

My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Jamie Cullum

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.

Robin Braig

NASCAR was born right here in Daytona and they can't ever take that away from us, and we'll continue to promote it as a world center of racing.

Cindi Williams

Nationwide, one of 100 children are born with congenital heart disease and the mortality rate is up to 9 percent. Over a five-year period, our mortality rate is 0 percent.

Douglas Brinkley

My wife and kids were born in New Orleans,

Mary Barra

My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

Randall Park

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.

Roz Chast

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Scott Ellis

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

Yutaka Miura

The slide in U.S. stocks looks non-stop. This is not a good sign for Tokyo, especially for high-tech exporters,

Kevin Lyons

The slices are thin, and the sauce is delicious. It is a very good place for lunch.

Shawn Green

The stuff he was throwing tonight was as good as you're going to see in this league.

Jeff Shaw

The students are helping their high school, they work hard, and it's a good product.

Jim Cole

The student population is at a relatively good time of life in terms of health, strength and vitality,

Liz McColgan

The standard is so high and the Ethiopians are so good that I think she would be stupid to do both," ()

Ian Foster

The squad has had a good rest this week after our trip. While we have had a short preparation this week, it has been a concentrated one.

Margaret Whelan

The spring selling season is off to a good start. It's not as strong as last year, but it's not weak by any means.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Daniel Everett

I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on.

Thomas H. Cook

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.