Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Alan Bennett

The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Al Jarreau

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

Nancy Long

We want them to have moms and dads and normal families.

Chick Corea

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

Chief Joseph

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

China Mieville

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

Eddie Marsan

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Alan Paton

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

Alan Moore

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

Alan Jackson

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

Alan Greenspan

The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

Alan Cooper

You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

Alan Brien

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

Alan Ball

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

John Maroon

We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.

Adam Gilchrist

We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

Greg Brown

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

Pete Bodyk

We're getting more and more local law enforcement involved in our mobilizations.

Ken Whisenhunt

They have been sitting through the meetings all year long so I don't think so. They've been involved in it all year long so it shouldn't be a problem.

Adam Schneider

They shouldn't be involved in the process and they're not.

Matt Smith

They're your next season-ticket holders, they're your next patrons. It's vital that they become involved and share the same passion as their parents.

James McTeigue

For Alan, the material is 25 years old and there is a part of him that has moved on. It is disappointing he didn't want to be involved with it, but that's Alan. That's his personality.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Lynne Safrit

It's exciting. I can't wait to see the landscape, because the walls have been a part of the landscape for years.

Don Johnston

That shows that if this were a primary, there would be a lot of opportunity to pick up votes. The idea was to see what the landscape was if this were a primary.

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Chris Kramer

As the media landscape changes, PR has to find new ways to pitch products.

Aldo Leopold

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

Dylan Moran

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

Drew Brees

They have a lot of pressure on them right now. I just wanted them to know their quarterback still loved them.

Gordon England

This is a day for us to remember all those loved ones that were lost, and everyone who suffered so much that day.

Laura Seeger

There were three squads so everyone who tried out made it. I loved it.

Miguel Unamuno

It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love

Bill Rodgers

It's a different thing whether to keep going to races, but I've always loved racing.

Sherlyn Lattimer

It was rough camping, but she loved it. They were outdoors people.

Jay Shippole

It was in perfect condition. We just loved it.

Brad Meltzer

The thing we always loved the most when we pitched this,

Joe Mantegna

I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Celia Cruz

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

Celia Cruz

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

Cecilia Bartoli

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Charlotte Church

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

Bing Crosby

I'll keep singing 'till I die.

Ben Barnes

I love music, and I love singing.

Bette Midler

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Al Pacino

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

Al Jarreau

Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I don't let [my friends] visit me filming and I don't bring them to premieres. It's a different head zone - when I'm on set, I'm working. When I'm just with my friends, I can just hang out, do normal stuff and generally be a complete idiot. It's the same with everyone.

Chloe Sevigny

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

Bear Grylls

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Laura Smith

When you've been through stuff together, you become a team.

Louis C. K.

I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

Cheryl James

For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

Lesley Manville

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.