Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Meno

When you can't fall asleep at night or you keep waking up in the middle of the night, you have a low appetite, or increased crying for no reason, then you're showing signs that stress is getting out of control and it's to the point you need to reduce the stress in your life.

Joe Donzelli

She may have fallen asleep on the bus. When she woke up, she made herself known to someone there.

E. Helm

I am astonished that the Indian government was able to catch the U.S. intelligence capability so sound asleep at the switch,

Stephan Pastis

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

Christian Fauria

This has been great...I haven't fallen asleep once. Seriously, I've been so impressed with the organization of the program and the professors. Jeremy Siegel's insights on the stock market were amazing. This experience has helped me realize what I want to focus on after the NFL.

Mary Carskadon

When children are little, their sleep pressure rises faster so they fall asleep early, but when it's slower, like it is for teenagers, it's harder to get to sleep.

Ken Holt

We kind of fell asleep a little bit. Defensively, you can't do that. But it was a great effort the way they came back.

Dan McCarthy

This tornado occurred at 2 o'clock in the morning, one of the most dangerous times that a tornado can occur. People are not watching TV, it is dark outside, you can't see the tornado. Most are asleep at that hour.

Jodi Mindell

Those with four or more electronic devices in their bedroom were twice as likely to fall asleep in school.

Jack Ablin

Right now, the transparency we had with (former Chairman Alan) Greenspan is gone. We're trying to get some semblance of which way the Fed is going to go.

Brian Kennedy

If the chairman could have loaded the family into a helicopter to go to all of these meetings and all of these parks for $5,000, he would have.

Tom Schlesinger

I would be nervous about picking an inflation-targeting champion as my next Fed chairman given the potential impact on employment growth.

Lawrence Summers

If we can do those things, we have a chance to keep this expansion going. But this is not the time to take what (Federal Reserve) Chairman (Alan) Greenspan, what six Nobel prize-winning economists have said would be a very risky course with a massive tax cut. We're not going to let it happen, ... Face The Nation.

When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs on Mars?" When no one laughed, I was real embarrassed. I don't think people should make you feel that way.

Mario Buatta

I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements that create two Siberias.

Adam Mansbach

I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

Lynn Schusterman

When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.

David Healy

It would be a dream come true to score and incredible to score the winner.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Eve Plumb

I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.

Terry Crews

I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like 'The Newsroom.' I've always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I've gained such a loyal fan base.

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Conor McGregor

I know I might rub people the wrong way sometimes, but I'm just a kid living my dream... I'm enjoying my life.

Claire Messud

The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained,

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Douglas Kirkland

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

Billy Joel

You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.

Juvenal

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

Julianne Moore

I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I'm walking on the sunny side of the street, I'll walk to the shady side. I'm too uncomfortable in the sun.

Patrick Chinamasa

The faces sitting in front of you are hungry faces,

Rhonda Jefferson

Though it looked like the same team we faced the first time, they had a lot more kills in this game then they did in the last one.

James Bell

We've got a lot of new faces there.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Jeremy Mayfield

We're going way too fast here, it's not right.

Monique Currie

We usually get a lot things going with our fast break. We weren't able to do that tonight.

Gareth Davis

We are trying to grow the international side as fast as possible and this side is looking very promising,

W. S. Gilbert

I have sparred with John before and I knew he was a fast kid who would stick and move well. I just kept telling myself to keep going forward and throwing my punches. I just kept my head moving and kept trying to hit him as hard as I could.

Chris Witty

I didn't have to have a fast, fast race, but I wanted to have a good race.

Andre Agassi

It felt good, it was pain free. I've just got to run faster now, that's all.

Joel Dunn

We were 1 for 9 (shooting) in the first quarter and a lot of our shots were too fast and we jacked it up. I think the second quarter we mellowed out and relaxed and ran the offense.

Tommy Maddox

I think he's more comfortable with what he's doing, ... He's playing better and better and faster and faster.

Michael Andretti

I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.

Jeff Gordon

We know that after Richmond (the 26th race) comes, we've got to be in the top-10 and when we are, we'd better be set on 'kill' to go out there and lead laps and win races.

Sharon Van Etten

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap but we got a puncture near the end but we got it home.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Benjamin Disraeli

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Jane Austen

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Bristol Palin

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Charles Bukowski

I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

Charles Bukowski

It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Colin Wilson

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Dalai Lama

The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.

Dodie Smith

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

Desmond Tutu

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

Debbie Reynolds

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

Dawn Ostroff

The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Linda Eder

Though it's a tribute to her, ... I'm not sitting there thinking 'How can I do it just like her' when I'm singing these songs.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Amy Winehouse

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Alfredo Kraus

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

Alfredo Kraus

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.