Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Jon Cregor

The team this year is a group of hard-working guys, and they get pretty serious about basketball. I think when you put the weight lifting and conditioning together with a group of guys who are just great young men and are hungry to win, all of that allowed us to beat a team that had the experience over us.

Richard Boucher

The Taliban say the detainees are well but have not allowed anyone to contact them, ... working to try to secure a swift resolution of these issues.

Dan Glickman

The Supreme Court in its ruling sent a strong and clear message that businesses based on theft should not and will not be allowed to flourish, ... The clarity of the court's decision combined with this settlement provides the content and technology sectors a window of opportunity which I think ultimately will greatly benefit consumers.

Dr. Akhiyat

The thing that touched me deeply, is that the officer really made a difference and allowed me to get to her five minutes earlier than I would normally.

Ted Stevens

I've made small investments in these things and some of them have been very successful. Others have been terrible, ... No one ever asks me about the losses, but they have really held up to public scorn the successes, and the scorn covered the people who allowed me to invest with them.

Sally Field

I've allowed myself to be so busy with my grandchildren, my sons, and my family, and work, that I really don't know where I would fit anyone in.

Tim Roberts

I usually take the worst-case scenario. Me and God have a deal. I'm not allowed to be cocky. As soon as I get cocky, things go wrong.

Peter Ustinov

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Andy Reid

There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Gary Carr

It was a long day. But the girls learned a lot and they're trying to find their way.

Edward Herrmann

I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

Marianne Bretschneider

We've talked about it in the past. We've had some girls who are up 6-0 and then the next thing you know it's 7-5. Now they're starting to really put it together.

Jeremy Burk

The only way to go from here is up, and all the girls agree. We've got a great squad and all of the girls are very experienced at golf.

Sarah Clarke

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

Gary Stanglewicz

Breckenridge is a really good team and our girls stepped up and played really well in the finals.

Brooke Langton

The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.

Lindsay Davenport

While we are getting more depth, if you go outside the Top 40 or 50, there's not tons and tons of girls that are really challenging the top players, ... There might be a few, but that's the way it goes.

Alex Sanchez

We wanted to do a jungle theme, but only the girls were into it.

Catherine McCormack

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Arundhati Roy

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

Douglas Booth

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.

Charles Spurgeon

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

Aristophanes

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

Brian Lumley

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Edward Abbey

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Adam Brody

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

Aesop

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Kevin Reilly

Put a show in its time period, leave it in its time period, start it on time.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Kevin Towers

The way I look at it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to leave (the offer) out there for other teams to beat.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Baha'u'llah

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

Justin Dombrowski

You are not going to leave somebody on the street.

Pinky Mulligan

You can leave everything in the vehicle. I'll lock it.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Myrtle Reed

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Becca Fitzpatrick

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

John McPhee

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Jill Thomas

The request-for-donation letters didn't get out in time.

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Art Spiegelman

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Benjamin Booker

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Burton Rascoe

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Conor McGregor

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Bonnie Wright

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Gary Enis

That's why tonight was so big. We've got to go back there and play Grenada.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Brigid Brophy

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

Edward Norton

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

Rory Huff

(Blocking shots) was kind of her forte. She had a ton of them every game.

Stephen Kress

Every puffin we see tonight is a miracle.

E. B. White

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

Anne Sexton

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

Andre Dubus

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Vic Rubenstein

This weekend we will trigger the millionaires' amendment.

Deanna Hindenach

We can't put a trigger on it, why it happened.