Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Pym

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.

Greg Brooks

Two days ago, my mom, grandmother and aunt went to get their hair done. When the people realized they're from Louisiana, they did all their hair for free.

Brandi Knight

We just need to find someone to petition for guardianship on our behalf, but no one will touch this case pro bono. The cheapest rate I've found, they wanted $2,000 up front. I don't have $2,000 and my aunt doesn't have $2,000, so there is nothing we can do right now.

Ally Carter

Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

Aldous Huxley

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

Dwayne Johnson

Take a little walk down Know You Role Boulevard, hang that right on Jabroni Drive, and then proceed to check your Aunt Jemima no-pancake-havin' ass di-rectly into the Smackdown Hotel!

Dolly Parton

I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.

David Lloyd George

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Aneurin Bevan

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

bell hooks

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

Charles Spurgeon

Beloved, can you feel assured that He carried your sin?

Saad Hariri

We all know that there is a crisis in the country and we are all determined to end it. I am optimistic about the issue of the presidency and God willing we will find a new president for our beloved country Lebanon.

Margaret Fuller

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Mason Cooley

The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

Margaret Oliphant

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.

Rob Lowe

My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a puppy, when he was tiny himself.

Katie Lee

My beloved Africa, the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells which you will hold in your memory for years to come.

Holly Black

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tyler Fleck

The Thunder has great fans, and they're very loyal to their team, so I know they hate me. I'm sure there will be a lot of boos. I expect nothing less.

Dan DiMicco

Now, I don't expect our government to guarantee us low natural-gas prices. I do expect that our government will not withhold natural gas supply that they control.

Kamal Sharma

The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent.

Laura Bush

is horribly disappointing and the sort of thing I normally expect from left-wingers.

Dante Cunningham

That?s what you come to expect from those guys. You know when things get tough Allan and Randy is going to take charge. They do it all the time.

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Luke Young

Saturday was a big day for myself and my family - it was a qualifier which made it more pressure on myself,

LaDainian Tomlinson

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles R. Swindoll

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Louise Nurding

One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.

Jerry Oppenheimer

There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.

Richard G. Scott

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Lutfullah Mashal

We know that he has been killed, but do not know whether it was because of personal hostility or because he once had joined the Taliban,

Paul Saffo

The problem has not been hostility to technology; the problem has been big egos.

Bill Vickroy

If we win, we would host it Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., after gymnastics.

Greg Rosenblum

There was shouting. There was hostility during the deliberation. There was adamant disagreement, but ultimately everyone respected everyone else's point of view.

LL Cool

To he who much is given, much is required. That's the importance of this day,

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Mike Degory

If we're going to take back the Swamp, it's going to start Saturday. We know that and understand the importance of this game. We're not overlooking it.

Kevin Johnson

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

Al Yankovic

In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

Janet Jackson

MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.

Sam Kinison

I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

Glenn Beck

We have the State Department working together with Google, MTV , MSNBC, Facebook , all of these all of these giant corporations. Google now has two executives that we know of that were charged to help this revolution.

Ozzy Osbourne

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Nick Rhodes

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

John Frusciante

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

Billy Bush

Where is Tony? Why didn't he come to the MTV VMAs?

Cat Deeley

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Charles Kingsley

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Branford Marsalis

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Tobey Maguire

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

Philippe Falardeau

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

Marissa Cook

I can?t look at state yet. It?s not here. I have to concentrate on playing my game.

Jaromir Jagr

Hopefully, I can keep playing like this in the Olympics. And hopefully, I can be even better for the Rangers after the break.

Taye Diggs

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

Michael Jackson

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

A. Hodge

What will be very interesting at this stage is that for a lot of guys, this will be the first time that they have raced all year.

E. Hicks

They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

Bobby Rahal

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

Rick Riordan

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

Norm MacDonald

Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.

John Muir

Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.

Theo Rossi

My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with.

Maggie Brooks

I think there would be some reimbursement, unclear what that reimbursement would be,

Janet Evanovich

Men!" "At least we don't fake it." "Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice and got us there in time for dessert. You should be thanking me." Morelli's mouth was open slightly and his face was registering a mixture of astonished disbelief and wounded, pissed-off male pride. Okay, it wasn't that much of a sacrifice at the time, and I knew he shouldn't be thanking me, but give me a break here... this wasn't famine in Ethiopia

J. K. Rowling

Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the enchanted barrier. "When they hear what you did this year?" "Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious...

Woody Guthrie

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

P. G. Wodehouse

What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.

Todrick Hall

The number one question I'm asked as a YouTuber every day is, 'How can I get my videos out there; how can I make my videos go viral?'

Sarah Silverman

I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.

Placido Domingo

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.