Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Mike Tice

The story got in the paper, then it got on the web, then it went worldwide, ... Then our phones started ringing and people started asking about Moss so we had a meeting and said, 'Since these calls are coming, what is the value of Moss?' We said it was three No. 1s because we knew no one in his right mind would ever give up three No. 1s.

Majel Barrett

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

John McCarthy

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

Michael Jackson

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

H. Hart

When the guy who is signing your check is in the locker room asking about your family and cares about every minute detail, it sends a message to the coach, to the general manager and that trickles down to the players.

Louie Gohmert

We're asking Americans to tighten their belts; by golly, the federal government should, too.

Tom Shanahan

There are a lot of different diseases that look like CJD and it is so rare many doctors may never even see it in their years of practice. We don't have a lot of experience with it, so we're asking the CDC to review the cases where autopsies were not done to give us an expert opinion on whether they were likely CJD cases.

Thomas Pynchon

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Luke Young

Saturday was a big day for myself and my family - it was a qualifier which made it more pressure on myself,

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Richard G. Scott

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Jon Radick

We're a strong-knit family. We do everything together.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Mircea Monroe

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

Kim Petersen

Don't let the family reach the 15-year anniversary.

Cassie Johnson

Curling was a huge family sport our lives totally revolved around it. I got totally hooked.

Eckhart Tolle

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Eileen Caddy

Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

Simone Elkeles

He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to.

Regina Brett

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Stacy London

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

Rumi

Because of your love I have broken with my past

Rajneesh

The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego. Then a deep ecstasy will happen between you and your master. Wherever there is a `let-go', ecstasy happens - that is the law.

Meg Cabot

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

Larry Long

I said, 'John, is everything OK with my paperwork?' He said, 'Larry, you're on the ballot.'

Jarrius Jackson

I think I had an off day shooting, but we still got the win. I did OK at the end.

Bill Self

I think he'll be OK (for Friday). He just tweaked it.

Ron Polk

I think he's all right. We'll take an X-ray for sure, but he should be OK for the weekend.

Victoria Beckham

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Tim Powers

We swam OK tonight. You could tell that we were still a little tired.

Dusty Baker

He was ok. They all say they're ok (after getting hit).

Woody Guthrie

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Ryan Reynolds

When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Brennan Manning

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

Brennan Manning

I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

Blaise Pascal

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Brother Lawrence

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Brother Lawrence

Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

Elif Safak

To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.