Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Edmond Rostand

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

David Weber

We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)

David Twohy

Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.

David Brooks

I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.

Ben Stiller

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut -' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'

Audrey Hepburn

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

Antonis Samaras

We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious.

Antonis Samaras

There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Rachel Caine

Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not." "I'm happy with you." She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?" "I'm considering it," she said. And she was.

We actually did that about a year ago. Even with a price increase and cutting routes from six to four, we're still losing money.

We always feel we're fighting for respect. People don't cut us any slack. We like that. We don't have anything to lose.

Diablo Cody

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Denzel Washington

People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.

The other step would be just to start reducing the ambulance staff, even the full-time staff and then cutting down even further the availability and the response time.

We are seeing a lot of people who are cutting back on other necessities - food, medication - to meet their utility bills.

We started to get sucked under the barge. Luckily, a deck hand cut us loose and we popped out of the water like a cork.

We struggled to cut their lead to three, then (Coakley) hit some threes and that killed our momentum.

Brian Morgan

We stopped a lot of their easy baskets. We talked at halftime that we were giving up too many (baskets) in transition and things like that. We gave up a lot of steals in the first half and a lot of easy baskets. We tried to focus on cutting off their dribble penetration. That was really hurting us. We wanted to make them shoot over the top. I think it worked to an extent in the second half.

We're in a situation where we have nothing to lose. We get to go out there, cut it loose, and play hard all game. This is an incredible opportunity for us and hopefully it works out.

Mats Sundin

We're in a position where we have to cut down on the breakdowns in our own end right through the whole ice. And stay out of the penalty box.

We started out the game very tentative. They played some good defense to start with ... our cuts were slow, we didn't play very well.

We spoke about those who perished, those who had their lives cut short. We spoke about irresponsibility and negligence.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Where I win is being able to cut straight through the defense.

William Shakespeare

Hold, or cut bowstrings.

Mark Barrowcliffe

The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a body utterly shattered, made for one of those 'ones to tell the grandchildren' memories.

Ellen Glasgow

you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It's a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women can watch what they eat, but I just can't do that.

We're not going to send an employee who makes $40 an hour out to shovel snow or cut the grass.

Kurt Vonnegut

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

John Roberts

When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger."