Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahya Jammeh

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Ian Mcewan

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Billy Graham

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

Ellen G. White

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Esther Rolle

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Igor Luksic

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Carl Safina

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Antoine Fuqua

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Bill Vaughan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Bill Burr

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Ken Barse

We have three lines that are working hard. They know we can't put all the weight on the shoulders of our top line.

Ted Waitt

We're really just formalizing, internally and externally, these lines of business,

Andrew Friedman

I thought it went well. I thought it was important to keep the lines of communications open.

Linton Johnson

We're apologizing. We screwed up. In a rush to do the right thing, we messed up.

Keith Stanfield

Some people look like they're lost causes, but they're not. Even if they're in a messed up situation, the one little thing you do to help can go a long way.

Fernando Vargas

I was really messed up in the head. I was always angry.

Jim Stoyle

We had been struggling offensively and made changes. We messed with the lineup a little bit. We're still not where we need to be, but we're going in the right direction.

Mike Long

This is not the real Woodstock. They messed up. They messed up the whole name of Woodstock.

Paul Tracy

The whole thing got messed up when Dominguez crashed,

Oprah Winfrey

You are truly messed up. You really are, ... You are truly messed up.

Jam Master Jay

At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.

Chris Johnson

I kind of messed up on that one.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Mike Williams

That was a surprise to us and we are obviously going to rebuild.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Mark Siegel

We've made progress, but obviously the work is not done.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

David Bear

We haven't seen it, but obviously we will review it.

Matt Holliday

We can't get all tight because we haven't scored that many runs or whatever. It's just three games. Obviously today was not what we want the rest of the season to be like so you just try to turn the page on this one pretty quick.

Jim Garvin

It has obviously precipitated a lot of interesting thinking in our science community.

Hines Ward

I thought he was going to be here, but obviously he's not. It's sad. I don't think it had to come to this. ... I've got to prepare like we're going into the season right now without Plax; we don't know what is going to happen.

Judd Anderson

It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.

Darren Clarke

I wish I could repeat it a little more often.

Ron Redmond

We've been there over a week, and we've made repeated requests.

Chris Neil

I can't repeat that in the paper. You've got to let him know you can't let him run around like that. I just told him, we play them one more time.

Jeff Bower

I will repeat that, again, he's been disciplined.

Alan Curtis

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, there was a lot of talk and a lot of commissions, but there was no real sustained action.

Debra Messing

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.'

Charles Meyers

It's not that I'm cavalier, it's more frustration at being contacted repeatedly with the same complaint.

Jesse Ventura

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

Jim Colborn

I was very impressed. He seemed to get stronger as he went along. He stayed in his delivery.

Lindsay Davenport

I was, today, trying to get a lot of just first serves in and not tried to go for too much, ... (It) seemed to work.

Jamie Lawson

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Richard Cooper

He seemed to know more than a little about just about everything.

J. C. Watts

He seemed to have a fascination with this stuff, ... We don't know, really, what he was up to. There were some pretty strange writings.

Mary Lambert

I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

Bob Coleman

We don't store it on the property. So, as soon as it comes out of the pipe, it's burned. So, if we have an interruption on the other end of the system, very soon we could have a shortage.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Dorothy Johnson

It can't come soon enough, ... It is going to be thrilling.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.