Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ike Barinholtz

Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then as I got older, they were like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg.' Now they're like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg's cousin from Massachusetts.'

Richard Rogers

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.

Antoine Rivarol

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

Mark Twain

Use the right word and not its second cousin

William Shakespeare

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

Orlando Bloom

My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

Azzedine Alaia

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

Sarah Murphy

I tell everyone my cousin is on American Idol, it's so cool! We always knew he'd make it.

Kathryn Harrison

I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

Don Rickles

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

C. S. Lewis

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Carrie Vaughn

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Carrie Fisher

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

Carrie Fisher

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

Carl Reiner

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Bill Bryson

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

Bill Bryson

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.

Charlotte Bronte

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Denzel Washington

I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.

Elie Wiesel

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

Brigitte Bardot

The world today doesn't please me.

America Ferrera

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

Anthony Bourdain

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

Ricky Gervais

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

Dante Alighieri

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.