Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hollie Woodard

We want the program to get better and better and better. We don't want to have any excuses anymore as to why Council Rock isn't what it used to be.

Scott Thaler

We have to go further and further out on a limb in order to keep today's audience entertained because they're not excited anymore about seeing a fast car chase on San Francisco streets. For a Coca-Cola and box of popcorn, it isn't worth getting somebody killed, and if at the end of the movie it says 'in memoriam to,' then you haven't properly done your job.

Neneh Cherry

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.

Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

Mack Brown

What a fun week for us, for Ohio State and for college football, ... It is unusual anymore to have matchups like this out of conference. I am proud that we are going to a place that cares about football like we do and that has the storied history that we do.

John Edgar Wideman

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

Michael Watkins

There goes another excuse to not exercise that we can't use anymore ... What's left? I think all the myths about what's bad about exercise have now been debunked. There are no more excuses. Exercise is good for our general health, and if we know what's good for us, we should get out there and exercise.

Tim Kropp

We're not arguing so much anymore if this is a harmful chemical. Now the questions are, what are we going to do about this?

Denis Waitley

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

Terry Thornton

We're in desperate need of beds right now. We have more inmates than we've ever had -- it's an all-time high.

Joel Dieterich

We have to go home, go to bed and come with some energy tomorrow.

Chad Williams

We were at the West End and catching them throughout the day. There were big fish on the beds everywhere.

Steve Ridder

We were a team tonight, in the truest sense of the word, because we have quality people in uniform. We don't have any ego-type players. These guys get out of bed every day trying to figure out ways to help this team.

Chanel Iman

Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

Charlie Munger

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Susan Smith

Until you have been in situation where you don't have a bed or the bed you have is inadequate...you don't know what it's like.

Andre Leon Talley

Uggs are comfort shoes, and it's important to have a shoe that gives you a sense of comfort. I have about 15 pair of Uggs - the same shoe, the same color. And I also have the bedroom slippers.

Mike Woodson

This morning at our breakfast meeting we put on the tape and here's Jason running up and down the floor. I told them to shut it off. I didn't want to show the guys that tape. We just had to prepare in other ways.

Nicholas Kristof

I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student.

Dave Lambert

As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses.

Carl Sibilski

The breakfast market is dominated by McDonald's at this point. So the big question for me would be will they be able to generate the critical mass of breakfast sales? They might be able to do it.

Bobby Cox

The breakfast didn't even get digested, did it?

Jessica Leonard

People who don't eat breakfast are twice as likely to be obese.

Deb Trine

Some people just come in for breakfast and leave or come in for lunch and leave.

Dizzy Dean

Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.

Jim Oyster

Each day the students were served a free breakfast that I paid for out of the principal's fund. We also told them to get a good nights sleep each night.

Lisa Gansky

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

John Eyler

We are pleased with the early signals this year,

Pat Scelza

We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.

Curt Fredrickson

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Jack Schrader

We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.

Greg Kennett

We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.

Curtis Brown

We struggled early but otherwise, we held our own the rest of the way.

Rich Rogers

We started fixing the place up, probably in October. We put our first turkeys on the place in early December.

Sonnie Bentley

We start early every day, and we make everything from scratch. We don't use anything processed.

Charles Jones

We're in a period in which all eyes have moved away from Bush. Having a term limitation is an invitation for turning your eyes from what was to what is likely to be in the future.

Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Charles Dickens

There is no limitation, there is positively no limitation' - opening his eyes wide, and standing on tiptoe - 'in point of expense! I have orders, sir, to put on my whole establishment of mutes; and mutes come very dear, Mr Pecksniff; not to mention t

Amy White

Until this, they were fine in my eyes, normal, (Reporter question: You trusted your sister?), yeah.

Antwaan Randle

When we called it, my eyes lit up and I had to try to not give it away.

Ugo Betti

At a given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, for all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

Jerome Harrison

About the third or fourth carry, I looked in my offensive linemen's eyes,

Gavin Grant

A lot of guys were really sharing the ball. You've just got to keep your eyes open when you're driving. We had three or four guys with three our four assists and that's what we need to have.

Paul Pierce

A lot of guys are growing up before our eyes - like Gomes and West. This team is in a good groove. It's about being responsible for your role and being aggressive.

Alan Rickman

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

Denis Leary

I'm really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen.

Charles Rangel

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

C. J. Cherryh

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

Benjamin Franklin

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

Keith Brooking

They pretty much did anything they wanted to with us. They threw the kitchen sink at us.

Dave Barry

normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.

Steve Thomas

These days, it's not uncommon to see a kitchen costing $50,000 or $100,000.

Brian Tracy

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

Chief Joseph

When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.

Edward Hirsch

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

David Hockney

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

Barney Frank

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

Audre Lorde

And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive

Armstrong Williams

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

Arnold Bennett

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Arnold Bennett

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Ertharin Cousin

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

Susan Beal

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

John Winn

We're going to take that into account, ... with open arms.

Tony Padilla

We're going to see if we can open things up with Tiger throwing the ball.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Lynn King

We're going to open a playable field, but we've got more work to do.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...

Comte de Lautreamont

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Norman MacCaig

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Jonathan Galassi

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Caitriona Balfe

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Harold Wilson

What he proposes is, in my view ... unacceptable.

Catherynne M. Valente

An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.

Marshal Cohen

Women updated their wardrobes and showed a propensity toward style and comfort.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Publius Tacitus

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.

Condoleezza Rice

There is no U.S.-European proposal to the Iranians. I want to say that categorically,

Lewis Wade

They're not going to tell. They'd rather retaliate.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Nick Cave

Aw, look, I don't know. I think I'd rather him do that than me.

James Griffin

As long as it is like it is and they tell me not to go back I'm here. I'd rather be up here anyway.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill White

Rather than risk confrontation with (police), we are going to stay at the Capitol.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

A.J. Burnett

Sooner rather than later, we're going to see a new team on top there.

Kevin Pietersen

Rather him than me in one of those things,

Charles Dickens

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

Charles Dickens

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.

Charles Stross

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

Charles Stanley

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Charles Spurgeon

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

Charles Spurgeon

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

Alan Bennett

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

Alan Bennett

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Chris Phillips

It's a short tournament. If you don't have it, you don't have much time to find it.

Craig Stevens

A lot of this has to do with speculation that there was going to be a shortage of supply,

Derek Halpenny

The yen is being supported by a liquidation of short positions.

David Chase

They're on edge, disquieted, off balance. What a short time we're on this Earth.

Cary Elwes

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Cameron Crowe

I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,

Kevin Gray

It would be an interesting test on short notice,

Lois Perrin

It was very likely, and to be done in short order.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Scott Wolf

Although, I didn't really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

Michael Mussa

They don't need to do it tomorrow, but they can't wait until the end of the year,

Liz Shimek

It's not over until it's over. We're fighters.