Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

William Rose Benet

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

Vonda Shepard

My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

Angela Knight

The picture that is emerging is of investors using the online services for their smaller trades, but seeking out expert research and advice when it comes to their larger involvements.

Neymar

I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.

Bertrand Russell

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Peter Gregory

The advice we received from Ashley's specialist is that it will take time to derive full benefit from the surgery he underwent in December.

Jane Choc

The advice they give you in the field is, if you're an artist get established as an artist first and then once you are established they are more apt to look at your work. Never team up with a writer; they like to team up the artist with a manuscript.

Kara Ratliff

The advice that they've given me has definitely given me an advantage.

Ali Fattah

The police are back to their old habits of cracking down on the Brotherhood.

Cilla Black

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

Margot Kidder

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

E. P. Thompson

We're waiting for their response so we can get cracking before Easter.

Jaspher Ombati

We're very skeptical about that survey. There's no way people who are fond of drinking would speak positively about measures we have taken to crack down on drunk driving.

Grant Lewis

Usually, we'll look over at each other and crack a smile, but that's about it.

Patricia Highsmith

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

Douglas Porter

While the economic data have been all over the place in recent weeks, there are no obvious signs that the economy is cracking in the face of record energy prices. Indeed, the export and production data have been surprisingly perky.

Bob Semling

We found a way to crack them with that big run before half. That gave us a good lift and we had great energy to come out in the second half. Pete has a real good feel for the game. He has a knack of where to be.

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tina Turner

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gilbert Hernandez

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Donald Trump

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Deborah Eisenberg

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Donald Trump

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

Bill Bowerman

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Glen Flanagan

That would make it easier to scout, that's for sure.

Celso Amorim

That will make it easier for Brazilian firms to participate in infrastructure projects.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

That was something I've never done in my career. When I was getting ready to throw, I had the feeling something was about to go wrong. It wasn't a one-run game, so that made it easier for me to take.

Jay Marston

Val is doing very well. She got some experience last year as a junior. Now she's our go-to pitcher. She's making it easier on everyone.

Peter Roskam

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Sure thing, Gumdrop. -Scott

Diablo Cody

Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

Dan Flynn

I was just walking up to the workshop one day and I plucked two gum leaves and I put them on the table and started playing with them.

Alice Cary

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

Dylan Penn

No matter where I'm going, I always have sunglasses, a book, and some gum in my carry-on.

Paul Schneider

I'm just happy when directors make a movie that is really sentimental but without being maudlin or saccharine or too much like Chewels gum. I don't want to be involved in a movie that's too much like a piece of Chewels.

Cathy Nonas

After all, you have to take gum out in order to eat.

Shay Mitchell

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

Chris Noth

It's terrible. We're starting to look like Hong Kong, or Singapore at worst. Pretty soon you won't be able to throw a piece of gum on the street.

Robert Smith

I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

Beck

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

Mark Baker

We don't pretend to be holier than thou.

Ruth Rendell

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Martin Freeman

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Angus Young

From The Beginning, Ac/Dc Nerver Pretended To Be Anything Other Than A No-Frills,No Bullshit Blues-Rock Band.

Eric Maskin

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Anna Netrebko

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Errole Rembert

We'll play the j.v. and they play the varsity. Rather than get destroyed, we get (our kids) to play the right way.

Mary Hansen

Most of them do walk rather than take the bus.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Zana Marjanovic

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Tanith Belbin

We'd rather it be here than at the Olympics. So in that respect, it's good.

David Chaney

We'd rather her be here, even if she does win all the time.

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

Travis Tucker

Yeah, it seems like that. But that's the way we like it.

Mike Sherman

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.

Dieter Zetsche

We're sticking to the timetable for the moment.

Anthony Chan

More and more firms are sticking their toes in the water. The recovery's begun, but it will be fragile.

David Albright

sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.

Sean Elliott

Nothing too strenuous, is what I've been told. I'm sticking to that.

Gil Jackson

They're sticking together. We just want them to play well, but they want to win.

Maria Shriver

I appreciate your support, particularly this year, for sticking with me.

Andy Gugliemini

It's about family, and sticking up for each other and being there for each other. That's what we want it to represent.

Rusty Wallace

I made my decision. I'm sticking to it,

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

David Bailey

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

Kevin Kruger

We've had enough things go wrong this season.

Anthony Schlegel

We've done it for a while. We're just going to keep it rolling. There's nothing wrong with that -- just have a little fun.

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Warren Littlefield

I think if you're not comfortable with change, you're in the wrong business, ... It's all about change.

Tim Woods

Unfortunately sometimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Phyllis Oakley

We are on the wrong track, and we need a fundamental change,

Marc Crawford

Only if it's the wrong message. I know it wasn't wrong.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.