Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Holbrooke

As highly successful and secure Americans, they could have lived a comfortable life surrounded by their family and their many friends,

Richard Fisher

As a community, we're going to try to reach out and support the family as much as we can,

Mike Lookinland

The Brady family was what everyone wanted their family to be like.

Derek Sivers

A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

Stephen Lacy

As long as the family is interested in journalism, you're OK.

Manti Te'o

As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

Mike Johnson

That was a big mystery, not having a motive and (the defendants) being family and all. I think that was a tragedy, I think that was a travesty, I think that was hideous. That was the worst thing that you could do to anyone, but you can't just pin that on to somebody just because of what happened.

Susan Streitz

Promote a healthy family lifestyle instead of singling out the child.

Clayton Christensen

People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Brian Jacques

Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got the say, ... If you don't, it's like putting your kid in an orphanage.

Rodman Philbrick

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

Robyn Hitchcock

As an amorphous, shapeless kid that wanted to be a singer but didn't know how you went about it, that seemed like a starting place.

Ron Scott

As a kindergarten teacher, I feel secure having her here. These kids are young, and they rely on her.

Michael Clarke

A year ago, we saw what that kid could do when he got in a groove. He put on a nice show out there in muddy conditions.

Charles Coe

Randolph has come up big last two weeks. He's a strong kid and deceptively fast.

Jeff Boogaart

Ramsey has a 6-8 kid and two quick guards. They played us tough and they've got some kids who take up a lot of space in the middle.

Al Martin

People up here liked the quieter versions. But kids would like the rock 'n' roll version.

Harold Chitwood

Our shots would not go down and we were down by 10 at the half. In the second half, they were too much for us. They were quicker than us and they had a lot of kids to keep running at us.

Jake Fisher

Sorry to keep heaping more on your plate.

Barbara Mertz

It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.

Augusten Burroughs

Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,' it makes you wish you could saw their head off.

Arthur Ashe

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

Benjamin Disraeli

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

Alan Dershowitz

I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry for all those inquisitions, crusades, and autos-da-fe. Previous popes were wrong - infallible, perhaps, but wrong.

Al Gore

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

Janet Jackson

I was sheltered, and there's good and bad to that. The good was not getting into the drugs and the alcohol and the really sorry stuff, and the bad was finally coming out into the real world and trying to deal with it, which was hard for me.

Demi Lovato

Don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm not even breaking. You're not worth the time that this is taking.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Richard Butler

After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'

Sean Coffey

Now I have a lot more time to talk to them, and they probably won't like me as much,

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Mike Eaves

That's going to be one of the things we talk about. Who's going to turn up the volume?

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Keyon Dooling

Sometimes you don't think, you just react. I wish I could take it back.

Ed DeChellis

That's kind of the thing going into it. I'm not as comfortable with right now as I wish I would be.

Ayn Rand

You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Damon Lindelof

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.