Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Palahniuk

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.

Persis Khambatta

I thought I was very pretty without hair. Naked, more honest somehow. No glamor, just bald old me. I seldom wore wigs or hats. But some people must have thought I was an exhibitionist or a religious fanatic.

Michael Hogan

You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys.

Richard Flanagan

You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

Johnny Vegas

I think men going bald is certainly off limits, coming from a family as I do, where it's in our gene pool and it could one day happen to me.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

On the bald street breaks the blank day.

Susan Egan

He felt so horrible. It actually hurt. He was pulling something else away from me, and he couldn't feel anything. That wig was really pinned in. Not to mention that in my wig cap I looked like I was bald on the Broadway stage. He bought me a little cactus with a cactus flower on it the next day.

Charles Lindbergh

He makes fuzz come out of my bald patch!

Author unknown

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

Alice Morse Earle

The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.

Jeremy Hardy

My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren.

Javier Clemente

I think those that spit have descended from the trees.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists

Malcolm Sharp

He was descending from 8,000 to 7,000 feet when the engine conked out.

Miranda Raison

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

Rabih Alameddine

A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

Rhonda Honegger

They descended on us like angels. We don't know how they found out about us, but that is how everything has happened in every step of this playground. Things just fell into place.

Annette Bening

My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

John August

We wanted to make a version that wasn't so disturbing that you couldn't put it in a family movie,

Bruno Bettelheim

With the very disturbed child, understanding is essential, since we all know sadly that love is not enough.

Dave Johnston

It disturbed the water and made it muddy. But it has less turbidity than what a typical rainstorm would cause.

Dave Johnston

It disturbed the water and made it muddy, ... But it has less turbidity than what a typical rainstorm would cause.

Tony Wood

I think our stupid government is shooting high-energy microwaves into the ionosphere and it's disturbing the jet stream.

Dogen

We must always be disturbed by the truth.

Chris Burns

One thing I find disturbing is as we move further away from specific historical movements, young people get removed from the meaning. Hopefully the work will move their hearts or minds to think about it in a different way and remember it.

Isabelle Dinoire

On May 27 after a very disturbing week and lots of personal worries, I took some tablets to forget.

Colin Campbell

I find it quite disturbing and also surprising that in the legal world of all places redress is denied.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Sherry Cooper

June's swoon is indeed proving to be temporary.

Janet Yellen

I wouldn't say we're completely out of the woods just yet. Indeed there are some issues that have the potential to be troublesome going forward.

Michael Defensor

But as to how many they are, we don?t really know and they are indeed a security concern.

Shakeel Syed

His story is indeed a story that needs to come out, and needs to be shared with the world.

Anna Seward

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

Joyce Banda

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Andrew Jackson

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Bob Wheeler

There is indeed such a bottleneck, and if their software does what they claim, it should get wide support.

Nina Easton

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

F. Sionil Jose

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

Davey Lopes

That was right on the middle of the plate. That's what he told me to say.

Phil McGraw

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

Mike Greene

We're working with a number of other agencies. All I can say is we're in the middle of the investigation.

Bryce Fisher

Middle linebacker is the quarterback of the defense, and for that responsibility to be put on a rookie is rare in this league.

Jason Taylor

We have people out in the middle of nowhere come here and are on death's doorstep.

William Butler Yeats

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?

Luke Clausen

It hasn't really sunk in yet. It's like you're in the middle of a dream.

Donald Norman

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

David Garman

We're approaching 7,500 megawatts. So, we're in a sweet spot with wind and there's more we can do.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Ali Larter

What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Dave Huber

That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Tom Price

I think Jaguar can turn it around, but right now it's tough. If I had only a Jaguar store, it would be very, very tough.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.