Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Coady

Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I worked with Seann William Scott on 'Role Models,' and his arms are tatted up. He had to come to set an hour-and-a-half early to get them covered. It's not worth it. I want that extra hour of sleep.

Pete Townshend

English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.

Vladimir Putin

If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.

Trombone Shorty

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

Julie Gerberding

We want the flu shot in their arms first.

Alex Rodriguez

We had some good opportunities. They have some good arms coming out of the bullpen. Have to tip your cap to them.

We're excited about the prospects of having new neighbors move into Mayberry. We welcome everyone with open arms and we want to take this time out every year to celebrate.

William T. Vollmann

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee.

Alva Myrdal

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

Andrew Young

Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.

Daniel H. Wilson

In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.

Daniel Goldstein

Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to sustain it by wise policies of economic progress so that a democracy means not just an empty liberty, but a full life for all.

Ben Carson

Our - our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.

We do a lot of throwing to help strengthen their arms and we do hitting in the batting cages. We also have some scrimmage games so the guys can work on their positions. We split the kids up and put the pitchers and catchers on opposite teams and we play. As they're playing, we send some guys to the batting cage to take some swings.

We began to pray, 'God, touch her arms. Let her arms be used as she used them before the wreck.' The doctors said there is no way this is going to happen, but the church continued to pray.

There are not a lot of events we, as locals, can get our arms around and say, 'This is ours.'

Jiang Zemin

upholding the international system of arms control and disarmament.

Oscar Arias

The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.

Dian Fossey

Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.

Catherine Hardwicke

How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.

Chandler Parsons

I don't like baggy clothes and looking like anything sloppy. The arms have to fit. The collar has to look perfect.

Blake Lively

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that's still there - it's preserved.

Traditionally, the ARMS program is another service that would require shops to update a separate system. We created an interface so that a shop's production status information can be sent electronically to ARMS without re-keying.

You look to get value, but we got some awfully nice arms in that deal.

Mohamed ElBaradei

When dealing with threats of nuclear proliferation and arms control, the Security Council has too often fallen short.

Ally Carter

She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.

Allen Ginsberg

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

Ernie Els

When I'm swinging the club at my best, it's because I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I feel like my body is loose. My arms are soft in front of me when I'm setting up, and my chest and shoulders feel as if they can move and turn easily.

LaTanya Richardson

Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.