Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Roger Rosenblatt

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

Tony Kushner

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Tony Danza

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.

Sherri Shepherd

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!

Tobey Maguire

I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people and working out what made them tick, wondering whether I could trust them or not. I went to a lot of schools along the coast in California, made few friends and stayed with aunts, uncles and grandparents while my folks tried to make ends meet. It was tough. We had no money.

Smedley Butler

...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars, WWI). ...The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary overseas!

Smedley Butler

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

Smokey Robinson

My uncle Claude was my favorite uncle he was also my godfather. He and I were really, really close. He used to take me to see cowboy movies all the time when I was a little boy because I loved cowboy movies. He got a cowboy name for me, which was Smokey Joe. So from the time I was three years old if people asked me what my name was I didn't tell them my name was William, I told them my name was Smokey Joe.

Anna Maxwell Martin

As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.

Lesley Garrett

Seeing that made me understand how profound the drama of opera was and how music theatre is the most powerful audiovisual form there is.

Jack Smith

This is a tremendous send off to our 75th anniversary. To start with a musical represents what Wheaton Drama is all about, which is having fun.

Jack Smith

This is a tremendous send off to our 75th anniversary, ... To start with a musical represents what Wheaton Drama is all about, which is having fun.

Brian Blessed

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

Channing Tatum

Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.

Jane Addams

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Desi Arnaz

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Delta Goodrem

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Bible Bible

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Serj Tankian

As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. Its such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, Well, if this is a truth that I know about thats not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?

Timothy Waterhouse

A way to a woman's heart is kindness and tenderness!

Gladys Pozza

As I volunteered more and more, I realized that I liked that more. That's where my heart went out. I spent a lot of time volunteering and being involved with the church.

Joey Estrella

Our seniors have been the heart and soul of our team all year. The way they've played, they'll be tough to replace, but we're looking for our underclassmen and recruits to hopefully step up next year.

Patricia Shea

Normally it just touches their heart that somebody cared.

Source Unknown

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

Dick Cheney

(The monitor) detected some minor periods, very short periods, one to two seconds each, of rapid heart rate,

Edgar Watson

Any man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there, will find plenty of readers.