Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darell Hammond

We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.

Tony MacAulay

That was a small bump in the road when considering what others went through.

Andre Morgan

That was very surprising. We hit a few bumps in the road (late in the season), but that can only serve to make us stronger.

Ronny Turiaf

That was a little bump in the road.

Bryan Braswell

We just didn't put the hits together. We got one here and there, we just couldn't put them together. We couldn't bump people over and the pitcher did a good job on keeping us on our toes. I thought we did an OK job in the field. We just didn't put the hits together when we needed them.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Rod Steiger

Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he'd put things so there were bumps and different levels and on top he'd put little bushes and if you didn't look to close, it looked like snow!

Marshawn Lynch

To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.

Chris Gallerani

We're not a strong team (physically). They do bump us off the ball.

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

H. Hart

We've learned a lot during the years. The weather this time of year is always unpredictable. One weekend will be real pretty and then festival weekend it can rain and turnout will be down. Overall we have been lucky with the weather. People have really supported us.

Mark Urman

You can have them all without the festival being an out-and-out market. Even a smattering of the possibility of a market presence is significant.

Stella Pence

With all the festivals out there in the world today, everyone is here.

Robert Hurwitz

We don't see the festival as an end-point for these shows, ... It's a launching pad, a stepping stone for productions.

Tony Long

We'll have a bang-up festival next year. Not that this one won't be great.

E. B. White

One of the (high school) teachers had been to the Fringe festival and she told me about it, ... I thought it sounded like a great idea.

Ethan Thillo

I wouldn't say we're the most important Latino film festival in the country, but we have improved our quality year after year.

Douglas Booth

I'm a huge festival fan. I love to dance and dance all night long.

David Lambert

He mentioned it six months ago, and I thought it was a great idea. Natchez is a great walking town, so it's a great place for a festival like this.

Gail Carriger

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

CC Sabathia

It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name.

Carrie Vaughn

What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?

Carl Perkins

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Carl Reiner

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Bette Davis

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Berenice Marlohe

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Ashton Kutcher

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Arsene Wenger

I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday. I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.