Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valerie June

I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.

Irwin Redlener

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

Shane Koyczan

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

Nick Hanauer

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

Liang Chow

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd be coaching girls. It's wild.

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

We are happy that the first shoe dropped and we made the cut. But we now just have to wait for the next shoe to drop, naming us as the winner.

We got on a losing streak and dropped four in a row. Now we need to start us a winning streak.

Banksy

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Laurie Lee

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

Traditional carbonated soft drinks have got a tough road ahead. The migration to water and sports drinks and other noncarbonated drinks seems to be permanent.

Trade is a drag (on growth) and that tends to hit manufacturing harder than the rest of the economy.

John Dingell

This staff draft is a very useful starting point in the process,

Chris Bosh

You look at the replay and you let me know if that was a foul. Everybody keeps saying it's OK, but you got to draw the line sometime. I got fed up with it. I'm not saying what I did was wrong. I think it helped us out.

(Today) was quite speculative, quite frothy, you didn't have a lot of dramatic movement in any of the senior parts of the market today. If anything, some of them were selling off, for example Northern Telecom (now known as Nortel Networks).

Oliver Cromwell

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry

George Foreman

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

Gracie Gold

'Pretty Little Liars' - my sister and I read the books, so we stuck to it for the first season, but it started to kind of drift off; so did we.

Grace Napolitano

We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program.

Tom Araya

A good wine has many qualities, I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.

Ted Cruz

What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

Allegra Huston

With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.

Adam Clayton

I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.

I work pretty quickly. I'd probably draw somebody once or twice in pencil, then just go to ink. Not really care too much about it, and it just kind of worked out.

I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working for Dreamworks on that film.

Tea Leoni

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

Alexandra Adornetto

Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.

We were kind of wondering if it was going to impact the meet. We didn't see anything where we drove in to the track.

We were able to run our tanks as dry as we can, ... That gave us an opportunity to lower our price right away, which most people weren't able to do. The result is that we've had a traffic jam most all day.

William Cowper

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;Like Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries