Famous Quotes & Sayings

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up

Donald Trump

Well, that's up to really Mark Burnett and myself and NBC ( search ) as to whether or not the Martha show continues, but it certainly has struggled mightily.

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. ""Oh, no,"" I said. ""Disneyland burned down."" He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.

G. H. Hardy

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.

Keith Dixon

This show is powerful. If I had this kind of emotional rush on every single play I do, I'd burn out in no time.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Francois Hollande

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

Robert Williamson

It's not that I'm trying to be greedy. It's the principle of it. If you're injured, the regulations state you're to be given this medal.

John Burroughs

It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental.

Adrian Benepe

This park was taken away for construction of the tunnel and never given back. We unpaved a parking lot and put up a paradise.

Girish Tyagi

There were no major surprises and that actually is good news, given that the recent surprises for the sector have been of the wrong kind.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Keith Tucker

They haven't given up, ... That is what I like about them.

Robert Sasaki

Our scenario in 1999 is that 10,000 on the Nikkei is a given - 8,000 is possible. We think that if the market goes to 8,000 it's good. It's not going to stay there for very long.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.

Alexander MacLaren

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

Alexander Pope

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

Alexander Pope

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

Alexander Pope

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Alexander Pope

Every woman is at heart a rake.

Alexander Pope

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

Alexander Pope

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

Alexa Chung

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

Amy Poehler

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

Mary Leakey

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Patti Page

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

Mac Miller

I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

Michael Jackson

My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.

Michel de Montaigne

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

George Herbert

Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.

George Herbert

Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).

George Herbert

An old friend is a new house.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Dale Carnegie

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Dale Carnegie

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

Cristiano Ronaldo

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

Cristiano Ronaldo

The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.

Craig T. Nelson

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Coolio

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

Coolio

We got to push to give, and one life to live.

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Mark Adams

We were kind of left to make it up as we went along.

Ed Westwick

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

Percy Sledge

I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.

Ted Hughes

Where white is black and black is white, I won.

Shirley Chisholm

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

Langston Hughes

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Linda Chavez

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Pete Rose

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

Joss Stone

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

Kevin Hart

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Kelly Osbourne

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Lennox Lewis

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.