Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas D'Evelyn

Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

Rick Moody

This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.

Robert Ludlum

That gentleman will call the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I think they're scared of him. They're merely professional killers; he's in advertising!

Mario Puzo

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.

Amy Tan

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

John Barth

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Tom Verlaine

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Thomas Berger

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Pam Olshanski

The call actually came in as a mental subject call as officers were responding. The mother had called, concerned for her son's welfare. We're familiar with the house as we've responded as recently as last week under similar conditions.

Dan Waterman

The big thing is we were able to stop them from running down the floor. We got back on defense, didn't give them any cheap buckets. We made them set up and call the play and we were able to defend those plays pretty well.

James Schlesinger

a wake-up call with regard to the dependency or the growing dependency of the United States on foreign sources of supply.

David Strow

At some of our properties, absenteeism was below-normal. Some properties had as few as 10 people call in.

Kevin Mawae

A winning team doesn't do dumb things, and we did a lot of dumb things the other day, ... Redemption is not the word, getting better is what you call it. Last week we laid an egg. The whole team did. ... We just need to line up and play.

Merry Clayton

Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.

Phil Gordon

A tight player raised from middle position. I had to call about one-twelfth of my stack with pocket deuces.

Chuck James

As long as I'm getting the job done, I have no complaints. They can call me whatever.

Mayor Ralph

That philosophy is extremely dangerous. I'm hearing it day in and day out and getting phone call after phone call.

Ratu Bokini

If the chiefs are united-the nation would follow suit.

Rusty Wallace

I think Larry is one of the most wonderful crew chiefs I've ever had in my life,

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Jack Kent Cooke

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

Mark Schlereth

With the way the Chiefs have played offense, he'd be a guy you'd have to consider, that some team would have to consider. There's going to be a lot of opportunity out there.

Oscar Wilde

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

Bob Dylan

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

Debra Winger

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

Edgar Allan Poe

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

Daniel Defoe

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Confucius

The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

Confucius

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

Confucius

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

Stephen Baldwin

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Nora Roberts

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Sgt. Frevola

They spent most of their time in one particular part of the store, so we would like to look into that and see if they had cased the joint earlier.

Tom Nutten

It was dislocated and the whole joint was torn to pieces. But I kept playing on it.

Darren Hayes

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant...

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Ayn Rand

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Tom Leonard

There's something drastically wrong. I think they know it, but they're scared to do anything about it.

Skip Mills

We just told him to keep shooting. You're really not going to make shots if you're scared and you don't want to keep shooting the ball. We kind of joked around with him telling him he's never going to make a shot again.

Donald Trump

You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens.

Ann Brashares

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

Doug Liman

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

Anthony Hopkins

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.

Andy Warhol

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

Sylvester Stallone

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.