Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Audrey Hepburn

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

Mary Simmons

We are pleased the proposed generate rate increase will be considerably less than we originally expected.

William Shakespeare

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Dan Doherty

When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time 5 1/2 years.

Tom Eagleson

When we heard it was her appendix, we all thought the worst. But then, it turned out to be kidney stones.

Todd Helton

When we heard about (Barmes), we were thinking, 'That's terrible, what are we going to do,' ... Then the skipper leaves and his daughter's having seizures, and it puts it all back in perspective really quick.

Ednita Nazario

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Charles Kuralt

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

Michelle Collins

At first I didn't say anything, but when my roommate got home she said she heard people talking about it all over the city. By then it was like IHOP on a Sunday morning.

Jeff McNeely

Some people who study insects think there may be as many as 100 million species out there.

Andrea Arnold

I love insects. They are amazing.

Rowan Atkinson

We are in the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.

Robert A. Heinlein

Specialisation is for insects!

Robert A. Heinlein

Specialization is for insects.

M. Wolfe

If the lilacs bloomed earlier, it could mean we had a milder winter, so look out for potential insect outbreaks.

Edmund Burke

The little, meagre, shrivelled, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

Cornelia Funke

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Ted Cruz

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Stephen Young

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Heinz Guderian

When the situation is obscure, attack