Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved

Chris Avellone

What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

Kevin Doyle

He was in tremendous shape, not an ounce of fat. His belly still had ripples.

He was on his belly and I had my legs in. I just hipped in and it was there. I didn't really feel a lot of resistance.

He just showed no interest in doing the job. He had no fire in his belly

He had the same spots, the same identical material. His costume had a white belly and a hood with ears.

If this hunt goes through, there will be other requests coming to the Russian government to hunt belugas. Before long we could have a hunt of a couple thousand Belugas. Once you start commercial whaling in any species, you have to make sure all of the bells and whistles are in place, that all the regulations are there from A to Z. Every time we have had a commercial hunt of whales there has been over-exploitation.

I don?t go crazy, but when I go out I like to have a good time, then get my belly full before I go home.

I danced my whole life, and belly dancing made me feel more comfortable to be in my own body.

Alan Greenspan

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

Billy Rose

The pot filler, while certainly a nice and functional piece of equipment, is more of a bell and whistle than anything else,

Until the storm hits and we get in to look at the damage, it's hard to tell how long this could last, ... Rita is pointed right at the belly of the industry.

When we bumped into Belle, the story is very romantic. She was very involved in society. Belle the name was right. It was just one of those lightning bolt deals.

Chris Hadfield

When we first get to space, we feel sick. Your body is really confused. You're dizzy. Your lunch is floating around in your belly because you're floating. What you see doesn't match what you feel, and you want to throw up.

John McLaughlin

Work has been undertaken to come up with a revised plan and a new application for an all-weather pitch to serve the pupils of Bell Baxter and to provide some community use. The meeting will give everyone the chance to see the plans and share their views.

With the new consoles coming out -- and I said this five years ago when the PS2 and Xbox came out -- people all rush to ring the bell for the death knell of PC gaming, and it never seems to happen, and I don't think we're looking at that now, either.

Charles Williams

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

Chuck D.

This will probably be on the same level - if not bigger - than the Ralph Bell crusade.

Gabrielle Zevin

I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

LeVar Burton

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

We've rung the bell at $600 and now we're perhaps ready to consolidate before we consider higher price levels.

We're having belly dancers and flamenco performances throughout the festival.

Anderson Cooper

We heard church bells ringing. We heard people yelling, screaming, clapping. A friend of one of the miners came over, crying, to tell us that he had heard and just been told in the church that 12 of them (miners) had been found alive.

The real challenge in going under the belly was a robotics challenge, ... Jim and Wendy, they had probably the most challenging job of all. ... I had to find the gap fillers, and direct Wendy to take me there. ... Getting there was a big deal. Getting them out was not.

Bob Dylan

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

Cynthia Ozick

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.

Troy Polamalu

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

William Cowper

To-morrow is our wedding-day, / And we will then repair / Unto the Bell at Edmonton, / All in a chaise and pair.

George Jones

I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full.

George Grosz

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

Emmanuelle Seigner

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'

Kamala Harris

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.