Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.

William Butler Yeats

Time drops in decay,Like a candle burnt out,And the mountains and woodsHave their day, have their day;

William Butler Yeats

Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day;

Phil Cox

What I saw was village after village which has been burnt down,

Bill Bryant

We have no moisture, we have no grass, the hay is burnt up. What do you do? I'm numb.

Jane Wiedlin

I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out.

Kofi Annan

thousands of villages have been burnt and more than a million people forced from their homes. In all about 1.3 million need immediate assistance.

David Briggs

People aren't going to chase those types of rallies anymore. Investors have been burnt too often and we're going to have a choppy market going forward,

Tiffany Davis

My space heater, the plug that's in the wall is burnt every time I use this. It melts down, slowly but surely.

Donald Trump

Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.

Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Sam Zell

We made fortunes off of leverage (before going public), and you're not going to make fortunes in the public market off of leverage.

Michael Hutchison

is tying your fortune to the fortune of the housing market.

Pat Quillen

We don't want to make a fortune. We just want to make a living.

Lucan

Pompey lives after his battles, but his fortune has perished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

William Shakespeare

Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Webb Simpson

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was really a killer, but there were several other putts -- I just couldn't get one to go. I think if Phil was putting for me, I would have won with 9- or 10-under.

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was just really a killer. I couldn't get one to go in the hole and get any momentum.

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was just really a killer.

Mary Klinger

We can't get down in a hole like that.

Michael Dicks

Manufacturing is in a hole but the housing market is pretty buoyant,

Stephen Hawking

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

Buddy Bell

We got back in the game, but it seems we never have enough. We have too many holes in the lineup to keep things going.

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Jermain Taylor

Whoever comes to Little Rock, I'm knocking him out!

Pat Bowlen

Nobody complained anymore. Now, everyone's knocking those uniforms off.

Al Horford

If they (sag) off Lee, it's over. I'm passing it out to him, and he's knocking it down.

Sheryl Neff

We're just knocking on the door, but can't quite push through. We're struggling a little bit.

Brian Cashman

We didn't want to wait until they were knocking on the door, getting close. We wanted to get them here, let them get a taste of it, soak in as much from the people around them as they can.

Caitlin Kittredge

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

Nate Hammond

We were knocking some shots down that we couldn't get with Whitefish. I thought we played pretty well.

D. James

It is not how you start a game, it's how you finish. We didn't win. They were knocking down shots and we weren't. They were making plays and we weren't. That's what it's all about.

Shawan Robinson

I was just getting open looks and taking my time and knocking them down.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Nancy Grace

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Seal

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

Dennis Lobenberg

Most of them are in my garage. I haven't worried too much about putting any signs up because of the weather.

Bubba Crosby

I was thinking about putting down another bunt.

Doug Tewell

I still have it, and I'm still using it, ... I'm not sure if Walter will ever get that putter back.

H. Jon Benjamin

I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.

Peter Lonard

We're not sure who we're putting Hensby with.

Eric Ripert

We are putting in a lot of fabrics.

Shawn Oubre

We are putting all our resources into getting the repairs made.