Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cedric Benson

They just keep saying I need to know the playbook, but if I'm never out there it would be hard to know how much I do know, ... My time is going to come. They're going to throw me out there in the fire and I've got to perform.

Jodi Picoult

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

Kathryn Minshew

If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

Katherine Paterson

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Karen Traviss

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

Mark Twain

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Matt Bomer

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

Mary MacLane

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Anita Baker

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

Angie Stone

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Ani Difranco

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

Andy Griffith

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

Amy Jo Martin

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

Ally Carter

I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale

Ally Carter

Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.