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.

Kathleen Sirovy

Anybody who did anything that was negative to a group, any label, those were the (T-shirts) that we collected. Any shirts that were positive, did not name (a group) and were not negative or offensive to a group were allowed to stay on campus.

Andy Lynch

Apparently, the winner on the show receives a lot of money. He wasn't allowed to tell anyone whether he wins, but he picked up the tab. They were a great crowd and were very courteous to my employees.

B. F. Skinner

A railroad meant two things for the community. It allowed for marketing of local produce such as grain and livestock, and it allowed for direct entry of English and German immigrants into the community.

Kevin Cahill

The size of this endeavor alone warrants this modest extension, ... When viewing these environmental issues, the impact on our infrastructure and community and, also significantly, the visual considerations along the majestic Hudson River, the time allowed thus far is clearly and grossly inadequate.

Ryan Rowe

The singles matches were pretty tough, and winning the doubles point allowed us to get pretty calm and focus.

James Sensenbrenner

These murderers chose our driver's licenses and state ID's as a form of identification because these documents allowed them to blend in and not raise suspicion or concern,

Mark Robinson

The square footage would be 69 feet in excess of what is allowed currently, so they would need a variance for that.

Amy Fischer

The telegram allowed people at a distance from each other to communicate in real time for the first time in history so there were a lot of social and business changes because of that.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Michael Leunig

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Lord Stevens

Articles in the press bore no relation to what had been said at meetings they reported.

Douglas Booth

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

Kris Kobach

Article II will trump anything Congress tries to do through statute.

Bob Gibbons

Arthur is a McDonald's All-America kid who had some contact with Indiana before. It's possible he could reopen that door, but it might be too late.

Pat Bowlen

Arthur has a point. We have to be careful that we don't have owners put perks on it to help decide where we play the Super Bowl. I don't think it's there yet.

Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here,

Aman Mojadidi

Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

David Watson

Be prepared. The stress and the pressure can make you run in all sorts of directions for any job out there.

Helen Johnston

The plans and the policies that are set out are generally in the right direction but where we have been less successful is being able to drive through the implementation.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Craig Brown

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

Craig Dunn

I think establishing the new position and the new office is a step in the right direction.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Tom Halbmaier

(A win) will be huge momentum for us going into the midpoint and it would be huge momentum for them, too. At the turn it's all about getting in that top four. Right now we've done a good job to get where we're at, but we're not satisfied.

Rick DiPietro

A win's a win. To see 60 shots and lose wouldn't be a good feeling. I'll take this any day.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes. We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes, ... We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Rich Bonnaure

Baldwin's a really good player. Every time we managed to get it close, he'd come right back with a basket.

Mike Steele

Back when we had good rebounding teams we rarely got to 40 - 40 is a lot of rebounds.

Ridley Scott

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

Shannan Bergen

At home you wanna come out ready to go. You wanna put your opponents down and we did a good job of that.

Aretha Franklin

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Ben Okri

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Barbara Sher

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.

Ayelet Waldman

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

Charles R. Swindoll

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

Jane Addams

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Austen

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Jane Austen

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Jane Austen

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Linda Foley

The ones who are serving life sentences are victims.

Ken Scholen

The older you are, the more money you can get because life expectancy is shorter.

Larry Brown

After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone

Gore Vidal

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Manju Warrier

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

Tim Howard

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whether I'm playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

Robert Edwards

The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.

Henry Selick

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

Dennis Kucinich

the United States must seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Brett Ratner

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Argus Hamilton

Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

Barbara Mandrell

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

Ayelet Waldman

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Atticus Shaffer

My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

Brian Sandoval

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

Brian K. Vaughan

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Benjamin Disraeli

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Carla Bley

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

Spalding Gray

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Sally Adams

Every single day I think of it, and I always will.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Drew Barrymore

I love being single. It's great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I'm very fortunate, and it's very rich fulfilling time in my life.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Seth MacFarlane

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

Al Aqsa

This is taste of even more to come,

Bon Scott

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

Aristophanes

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

Charles Bukowski

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Edvard Grieg

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Coolio

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Clive Barker

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

Alphonse de Lamartine

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Aldous Huxley

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.