Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esperanza Spalding

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

George Herbert

Better a barefoot than none.

Jewel

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

Jennifer Sky

I was big time into Barbie.

Jean Smart

I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

Iggy Pop

If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets,

Frank Stella

You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object; that it's not a window into something - you're not looking at a landscape, you're not looking at a portrait, but you're looking at a painting. It's basically: A painting is a painting is a painting. And it's what Frank Stella said famously: What you see is what you see.

William Hazlitt

If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.

Aaron Rodgers

I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

If I had to choose a part of my life that was as close to perfect as life gets, it would be Catfish Haven. It was a lot of exploration. I?d go fishing barefoot and run through pumpkin patches. The world closed in a little bit when we moved back to Elgin.

I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

I can barely fathom it. I just wanted to contribute, try to make some blocks. Offensively I wanted to open up some holes. I could have had another catch. I could have had another tackle on special teams. I'm glad it was enough.

I definitely think there's more parity in the league than there has been in awhile. Santa Barbara is still going to be the team to beat, but I think there are other programs knocking on the door, and hopefully we're one of them.

Mika Brzezinski

I desperately miss my girls when I am working, and I often feel guilty, but also feel the journey I am on is for them too. When I am on my 16th hour of a day and can barely keep my eyes open, they drive me forward.

Giorgio Moroder

I designed a sports car, the Cizeta-Moroder, with Marcello Gandini from Lamborghini; he did the Countach, of course. The Cizeta cost $600,000, but we could bargain - if a Japanese businessman says he wants it for three, fine.

Neal Pollack

I can't think of any other city that has a self-styled working class of intellectuals. Educated men who don't have college. If you hang out in bars long enough, you're gonna hear some things.

I can only say we've got 1,335 barrels of liquid, and I can't tell you how is much is oil and water.

Ruth Rendell

I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.

I do want to see him go to jail; that's the least so that my son knows that he's behind bars and that he will never, ever be able to touch him again.

I'd rather those conversations between Barry and myself remain private.

Felipe Alou

I don't see Barry there. What is that? It's pretty good.

Donald Ray Pollock

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.

Chelsea Peretti

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.

John Calipari

I barely wanted to be here. ... We've got to be able to check a minute into the game who's into this energy. Who is into what we are doing.

I barely took any at all toward the end because there were so many other things I had to get done on the court.

I barely remember anything about it. It happens. Nobody wants it to happen, but it did.

I barely make minimum wage, and it's hard every time the gas prices go up, I still have to pay for food and bills, so it's hitting everyone's pocketbook.

I barely made it, ... This was just hellish.

I barely know the way to my house.

I barely have any clocks in my place, but I always have my cell phone with me,

Todd Hollandsworth

I barely had time to get my batting gloves on. That was probably the earliest I pinch hit all year. It kind of caught me off guard.

I barely got to work today. People want to talk about it in there. You stop and get gas and people want to talk about it.