Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gladys Knight

I was just being obedient to what my parents saw in me. I was more interested in the things the women in my family, my mom, grandmother and aunt were all about: homemaking and cooking and housekeeping. I wanted to be a housewife and mom.

Martin Landau

His mother died when he was a little kid, his father didn't understand him, and he was raised by an aunt and uncle and a grandfather on a farm. He had a lot of darkness, without question.

Barbara Boxer

He's a wonderful uncle to my grandchild, and Hillary's a wonderful aunt to my grandchild, so I have a very soft spot for that relationship, ... Now, having said that, I have a bright line between my work as a United States senator from the largest state in the union, and what the president has to do.

Jeremy Davies

He's finally starting to get into a groove. He's had a lot to deal with this year with the knee and his aunt dying. He was pretty close to his aunt.

Mary Quant

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

John Updike

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

William Shenstone

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Robin Tunney

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

Tyra Banks

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

Chris Waythomas

Just very light small amounts, you have to be looking for it to find it in the snow, very fine-grained stuff.

Curt Benge

I think it's a close-knit group, and the seniors are a lightning rod for that. The underclassmen like and respect them, so they want to see them have some success.

Sally Field

Goldie is like a neon light and I am not.

Chipper Jones

He's been pretty much lights out since he got over here.

Skip Wilson

We're pretty solid, particularly in the lighter weights. And we have some experience. We should make another run at it.

Evelyn Fox

We totally refurnished and refurbished the lobby, lighting and furniture.

John Ide

What you're looking for is lights and markers.

Loryn Kasten

It is lightly snowing right now, and were supposed to get a little more snow out of this storm.

Tony Torrez

I went through a red light on South Main Avenue.

Shuji Nakamura

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

Mario Batali

It's more interesting to talk about the whole lily family and say, did you know that lily bulbs are also part of the onion family? It's like the stream-of-consciousness way I think about food when I'm just cooking it.

Shelley Berman

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

Marsha Blackburn

We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.

Dennis Richards

It would be great if we would get so much stuff that we have to send another trailer down in November, ... We know as time passes there will be different needs, things like light bulbs and lumber. We will probably continue for six months to a year, as long as they still need our help.

Tom Watson

Your headlights and all the other bulbs in your vehicle see a very consistent voltage. You don't get the voltage spikes that tend to burn out bulbs and shorten their lives.

Steve Jobs

And you guys were putting Java in light bulbs and everything else,

Claude Shannon

by staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.

George Benson

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.