Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Frazier

To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

Zac Goldsmith

Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

William Shatner

Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.

Jack Santora

The pattern I saw in the independent league is they (organizations) take shortstops and pitchers. But how does stealing 38 bags and hitting .283 not get an invite.

Brad Goreski

Whether it's a canvas tote or Givenchy, a day bag you love is essential. It doesn't have to be a fashion It bag of the season, either.

Victoria Moran

I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of 'Vogue,' even though I won't purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.

Maeve Binchy

I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.

John Ruiz

The 28 bags are all empty -- to put all his parts in after the fight.

Dexter Filkins

The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.

Stew Jr

The ovens are always on with products in them. There's a tremendously beautiful smell that's generated in the store. What we're trying to do is called show and sell.

Reese Witherspoon

My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

Nitin Nohria

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Nick Jonas

I get to wake up every day and create music. And even when it's a tough moment as far as career ups and downs, it's always something you're passionate about, and it's a beautiful way to spend your life.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day.

C. S. Lewis

When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

C. S. Lewis

We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations. ...

C. S. Lewis

All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule Narnia for another hundred years. So maybe I die, and winter goes on. Maybe the hunger and the darkness and the fear never end. But as long as the children believe in me, I know that Aslan will live again. I, the Great Lion, Son of The Emperor Over The Sea, will live again and -- aaaaauugh!!

Cecil Taylor

In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.

Glenn Tipton

I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

Zadie Smith

It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

Walter Smith

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

Marc Ratner

The police did a marvelous job. So did (ring announcer) Michael Buffer. He kept everybody calm. He told everyone to stay in their seats and that everything was under control.

Anna Nicole Smith

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Brian Van Holt

I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

Beeban Kidron

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

Bill Hader

I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'

Randy Houser

One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

Raoul Dufy

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Ray Winstone

The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. 'Cos everyone thinks they're a goodie, don't they?

James Blake

Well, probably, keeping my eyes on the road, making sure I get here all right,

Rick DiPietro

We were going to give him a ticker-tape parade when he showed up, ... but I couldn't keep my eyes open.

Jeff Probst

You'll see many people on their back, on their knees, throwing up, eyes rolling back.

Jim Wood

You kind of open your eyes wide and say 'I've got to make the call,

Dwayne Jones

I think I've opened a lot of eyes.

Kim Komando

It has opened our eyes and minds to possibilities. Now that we're not tied to offices and wires and poles, now what can we do?

Isaac Brock

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Beeban Kidron

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Pat Morita

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

Mark Hing

Most investors put their portfolios together in a haphazard manner and don't have a sound stock selection strategy. They end up with a patchwork portfolio filled with low-quality securities.

David Schwab

It'd be one thing if he's 25 and filled a demographic niche. But the older the demographic you try to reach, the less risky you want to be.

Scott Warner

We have a whole room filled with those,

Robert Kiyosaki

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Sam Williams

I was unfamiliar with many of the agencies, ... The interviews filled in a lot of gaps.

William Jarvis

Today we have 260 million guinea pigs for the dietary supplement industry.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.

Matt Jackson

We're scrappy. York, we hope, is a guinea pig for a pilot program.

Dannielli Marcelino

My sisters were my guinea pigs. It probably hurt.

Quentin Blake

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

Jacob Ruppert

When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets. I had a little menagerie of my own, some pigeons, guinea pigs, and so on. On Saturday mornings, I had to take my music lesson. Then the members of my team used to come see my menagerie.

Tennessee Williams

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

David Bailey

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

Cate Blanchett

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.

Carrie Vaughn

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

William Shakespeare

What is more miserable than discontent?

Louis C. K.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Caitlin Moran

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

Benny Hill

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Russ Moore

We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.

Jane Austen

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Al Yankovic

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Tyler Perry

The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.

Irving Harper

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

Emma Watson

Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

Elizabeth Warren

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.

David Bailey

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

Janet Callison

The outpouring of support we've received in Grandview has just been overwhelming. So many people offered to give their money and their time to help.

Brian Harvey

We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

Christopher Wheeldon

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

Melba Martinez

I wish I could paint like that again, but I don't want to go there again.

Jordan Bridges

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

David Gates

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Carl Sagan

Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

Julia Cole

Only when we have a long-term perspective can we say anything at all about long-term variability, especially decadal variability.

Steven Lima

One of the reasons we don't understand sleep is that we haven't taken this evolutionary perspective on it.

Eido Carney

We try to keep that perspective in mind.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Matthew Pinsent

I can't really get any perspective on it at the moment,

Nick Ingelbrecht

From a practical perspective, any telecom manufacturer has to have a big position in China.

Larry Brown

From my perspective, it's a big step forward.

Jonathan Burns

From our perspective, the transition is going quite smoothly overall.

Alan Bradley

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Paul Newman

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

Anthony Bourdain

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

William Shakespeare

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

Jessica Alba

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

Frederic Raphael

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Cassandra Clare

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

Max Lucado

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

Lord Byron

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

Roy H. Williams

Basically, Tyler's just worn out. I think he's completely spent.

Brady Quinn

I don't think he's worn all of them at the same time.

Benjamin Franklin

Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.

Beatrix Potter

I am worn to a raveling.

Lee J. Cobb

The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.

Doris Payne

I am real pained by this, but I am worn out.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

Bruce Arena

That's Brian. It's uncommon, but that's why Brian's worn the captain's armband as well.

Jeff Horner

We weren't worn down. We just didn't make plays.