Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jamie Bell

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

C. S. Lewis

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

C. S. Lewis

We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?

Brad Shaw

As a team, we played our most desperate hockey.

Michel Salgado

After winning the double, he is desperate to come here.

Tubby Smith

We've been in a desperate situation. (The 0-2 start) was a wake-up call.

Daniel Alfredsson

We've had some injuries, we went into a slump and we've played some teams that are more desperate than us in some cases.

Alan Autry

You look at it, you're stuck with 400 or you look at it as we have an opportunity to help 400 fellow Americans in desperate need,

Ken Johnson

People want to leave an estate when they pass on. They hold on to the desperate last.

Frank Auerbach

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

Phil Jackson

Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.

Mary Parker

I thought we were all kind of desperate housewives. Mine was just a little more desperate than they were.

Bible Bible

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

Anne Robinson

They are always so pleased with themselves aren't they? I've never taken to them. What are they for?

Juvenal

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

Demetri Martin

I would like to have windshield wipers that do the whole windshield, please.

Billy Joel

Don't go changing, to try and please meYou never let me down before.

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Bob Wynne

We are very pleased with the Commission's decision.

Marilyn Monroe

To a reporter: Please don't make me a joke.

Gary Muto

We're very pleased. We wouldn't be rolling out if we weren't pleased with our results.