Famous Quotes & Sayings

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Martin Evans

When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Dave Palmquist

All that matters is that we are in a championship for the fourth time in five years. It is amazing.

Joe Girardi

It's possible we could take more than five starters.

Ang Lee

It's been five years since the last time I stood here. But in my mind, I've never left the independent spirit.

Dave Perry

It truly was a team effort. I thought we had a shot at top five and the guys all year were telling me they were going to be top three and get a trophy. And they did it. That's the legacy these seniors will leave.

Pat McDonald

It was good to those new guys step up and get a goal. I thought we got off to a great start. We always talk about how important the first five minutes of a period are and we had a very good first five minutes tonight.

Markku Uusipaavalniemi

It means a lot. Already now we have had over one million people watching curling (in Finland), which is pretty good from five million, so in a final, it will be great.

Matt Coleman

We had a positive season. Two years ago, this program had won once in five seasons. We've put 15 (wins) and 12 together now in back-to-back seasons.

Glenn McAninch

We had a period in the first half where we had four or five situations like that, and that makes us dangerous.

Dennis Scott

I am hopeful in about four weeks or so I should be in a physical position to be able to play again.

Doug Galloway

He was throwing up all Tuesday night. I kept him in three and four minutes at a time.

Michael Matz

He went real nice. For right now, we don't need to do any more than we're doing. We've still got four weeks to go.

John Talbot

He takes three or four steps and he's winded.

Chris Jones

He's come on especially the last three or four games. He's become that second scorer we desperately needed. For him it was about playing enough games at the varsity level to become more comfortable.

Jeff Wintersteen

He's become a lot better skier over the last four years.

Veronica Roth

Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.

Veronica Roth

Please. They're like the Cult of Four.

Matt Sokolowski

Pierre needs to rebuild the strength in his shoulder through therapy and treatment. He should be fully recovery in approximately three to four weeks.

Kate Christensen

Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.

Lorde

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

Matt Lawton

I still take full responsibility for my actions.

Mary Davis

I think scholarships are part of the equation. I can pretty much say the whole idea of getting a full ride, does not exist.

Jared Dudley

Yeah, it's embarrassing. Full house, first ACC game at home and we lose by 20.

Stella Young

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

Bruce Bochy

Well, I've got a full bench, ... and I'm gonna use 'em.

John Gotti

Well we know the whole situation's full of lies, Dad. That's just the way it is.

Nathan Hampton

We had always been able to put together three full teams of nothing but Sauk Rapids kids in youth soccer, so I knew the interest was there.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Robert King

This is all the money in the city, sitting right here,

Enid Bagnold

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

Bob Groves

The 'flex' money is an unusual, one-time expenditure. As for the rest, some of it would be spent over several years.

Richard Morris Hunt

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

Gary Brown

You don't have to spend $300 today. Do it over time.

Napoleon Hill

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Ogden Nash

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Eminem

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!

Jeremy Wotherspoon

I wish it was different. I wish ...

Carlo Goldoni

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Horace

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Andrew Heyward

He added, ''I wish him only the best.

Nathan Fillion

I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.

Muqtada al Sadr

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.