Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Nancy Peterson

It became increasingly evident that we needed to do something in terms of a financial turnaround plan, or the place wasn't going to be a viable organization anymore.

Stephen Rodrick

Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother.

Cameron Crowe

There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie. Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.

Cameron Crowe

There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie, ... Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.

Muhammad Yunus

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Mike Huckabee

I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.

Quincy Jones

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

Mark Takano

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Brad Turner

They haven't changed defensively since 1991 when we went there and Coach Rush was the defensive coordinator,

Willie Nelson

What has changed is that nothing has changed. . . . That's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Winston Churchill

It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Rebecca West

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

Russell Baker

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Umberto Eco

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Sam Brownback

You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.

Mark Indelicato

My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it.

Gordon Parks

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The young Wolf was one of those people who would recite a poem to themselves a hundred times, until they had found the music that goes with it.

Maarty Leunen

They got messed up on the switches and left me open. Luckily, Malik found me.

Fred Powell

They found two Louisiana Swamp Tour Vans that were charging $40 apiece,

Bob Bauman

They had so much speed but we found ways to get it done.

Peggy Gish

They had hints. They thought they had overheard on the TV about Tom (but) they weren't sure. They found out for sure (Thursday) morning.

Brad Soderberg

They had every reason to lose tonight and they found a way to win and that's the sign of a good team.

S. Hughes

They were looking for trouble and found it.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Lorrin Lee

If you want to Rich ...own your own Home and your own Business. Be FREE to pursue life in your own way ...with all your passion.

Shan Foster

I'm hard on myself over missing open shots and free throws. That was a hard pill to swallow.

David Blunkett

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

Rory Culkin

I only work once or twice a year for about a month, so I have a lot of free time. But I'm good at being alone, which helps.

Frank Schade

I really think we kept battling. We're still not real pretty and we're still making young mistakes but we're battling. I was real pleased with the free throws down the stretch.

Bobby Cox

I love that kid. I still do. Free agency, that's the nature of the game. He was well liked in this organization.

Lonnie Bartley

I haven't done that in awhile. It was twofold. First, we were missing our free throws. And it just seemed like we didn't get warmed up before the ballgame. It seemed like we were running in slow motion.