Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gayle Lynds

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Greg Davis

There's going to be some ups and downs. ... A couple of times they didn't play to the standard that they're accustomed to, and I think we'll see the very best of it.

Yevgeny Adamov

By 1998, the Americans got accustomed to the fact that people in Russia must listen to them and they don't have to listen to anyone here,

Chris Donovan

People have increasingly been attracted to the cleaner, simpler living space that a loft can provide. People are more accustomed to or hungry for the urban lifestyle.

John Efford

People have got to become accustomed to the high cost of fuel,

Brad Jacobs

People often get irritable or develop headaches when they suddenly stop using caffeine. This is because the body gets accustomed to this chemical, and when it's missing, the body reacts in negative ways.

Brian Reynolds

Most schools use (similar trips) as a recruiting tool. It's nothing they're not accustomed to hearing from other schools.

Paul Huddle

The athletes were more accustomed to the area and we had a better plan. In general it was a better event.

Dan Messmann

(That was) more like the senior, two-time all-conference player we've been accustomed to seeing.

Allen Ginsberg

Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.

Mary E. Pearson

What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now.

Paul Light

What were they thinking? You know a hurricane's going to knock down cell phone towers,

Albert Camus

I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.

Clay Shirky

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

Amory Lovins

Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.

Lorrie Moore

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

John Pescatore

Security is important for cell phones because it is much more likely that a user will lose that device than a laptop or desktop computer.

Roe Hye

So far we could not find any stem cells regarding Dr. Hwang's 2005 paper that genetically match the DNA of patients. Dr. Hwang's team doesn't have scientific data to prove that it has produced such stem cells.

Wasim Bari

We have included two new spinners as part of our build-up for next year's World Cup in the West Indies.

Rick Riordan

That's it, cupcake. You're going down.

Mo Johnston

Magnificent. He's been magnificent all season. There is a door open now for the World Cup and I hope he's on it because of his performance here, not only tonight, but throughout his time here has been tremendous.

Patrick McEnroe

My goal is still the same as it was when I got here -- to win the Cup and have camaraderie. We've got that part, we have the guys who are committed. ... It would be nice to win it.

Brian Barwick

If and when we qualify, we would go into the World Cup as one of the teams that can win it.

Leo Beenhakker

He's still a great player. Nobody has to tell me that we still have a lot to do. The players can still improve. If it's good enough to surprise some of our opponents at the World Cup I don't know, but they still have a lot of room to grow.

Roy Coyle

It does not matter who we are playing, we want to get into a cup final. That is what it is all about.

Gordon Brown

July 30, 1966 will rank as one of the greatest World Cup finals and one of the great days in sporting history.

Doug O'Neill

We're all talking about the Gold Cup as the dream spot and probably a spot between now and then. It is in our own backyard.

Bob Dole

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Charles Bukowski

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

Haz Iwendi

While they (Briton and American) are having a drink ... they were kidnapped ... and taken a way.

Sorin Cerin

The real wise man will listen to the symphony of silence and drink the water of forgetfulness to understand the sense of his emptiness.

Donny Osmond

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

Diogenes

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Dean Martin

I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.

Dave DeCecco

Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it.

Maran Hilgendorf

If people like their water and they drink water, then they should be concerned. Maintaining the water quality not only protects people, it also protects the environment.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Jim Pate

We'll need no less than 10 volunteers a day and no more than 25 a day, and they must be prepared to be self-sufficient for one to two weeks.

Faith Hill

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Chad Brown

You've got to realize there are 31 other teams in the NFL, so you can't get discouraged and let your play lessen in any way, ... Everything you do (in practice) is on film and people are going to watch that film, so you've got to be prepared to play even if this is not the place where you'll end up playing.

Tom Costello

It's less than what I was expecting, ... It would be of more value if we had that corner.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

Jack Ablin

You needed to be a meteorologist to make money in this market.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Justin Flom

Don't spend money on extravagant things like cars and big vacations. Spend it on things that are really fun.

Daawna Moeller

We're going to walk and raise money for research.

Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Tomi Taterka

People are talking about another problem in Argentina.

Lee McConnell

People are taking this storm quite seriously." ()

Dorothy Poindexter

People are sweet this time of year and it's great.

David Peck

People are surprised by my portion size and portion control.

David Mann

People are still not sure if we will see 8.11 (yuan per dollar) for the rest of the year or the rest of the week.

Ruth Rendell

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

Mark Muchow

People can write a request on a Post-It and stick it to the return. It doesn't take a lot of effort.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

Seth Godin

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

Skylar Astin

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

J. B. Smoove

Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

Frank Zappa

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

Jennifer Westfeldt

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring,

Jeff Perry

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

Fred Couples

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

Jason Reitman

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Richard Thaler

A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

Dwight L. Moody

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

Simone de Beauvoir

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Sophie Kinsella

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

Swoosie Kurtz

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

Jean Kerr

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

William Leach

I think they've been shopping this around for a while,

GG Allin

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

Lacey Chabert

I like shopping, and I like to drive.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Frank Robinson

One thing he has to start doing, he has to start being productive. He has to, because you can't keep going 0-for-3, 0-for-4, 0-for-4, 1-for-4, that type of thing, from the top of the lineup.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Marco Buechel

If Bode wants to start winning, he could start winning tomorrow, immediately.

Mark Recchi

Hopefully, it's a starting point. That's what we have to look for right now. We're getting better.

Sathya Baba

Start the Day with Love;Spend the Day with Love;Fill the Day with Love;End the Day with Love;This is the way to God.

Marc Burns

My start let me down but I can't complain, it's a medal.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

David Lloyd George

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.