Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodie Foster

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Jimmy Buffett

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

Jim Sensenbrenner

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

Joanna Baillie

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

Steve Forbes

As my father once said when he lost a governor's race in New Jersey: 'We were nosed out by a landslide,'

Absolutely. No question about that ... He looked upon Father Geoghan as a prize.

Richard Grieco

It's just a wonderful feeling to be a father and to have a kid.

Jeffrey Tambor

It's everything I wanted it to be and more, ... Doing Mamet is working without a net. He's so delicious. I knew he was great, but I did not know that by doing him, you get him. It's like hearing an overture in a musical. There isn't an ounce of fat on this thing. It's great!

It's a start. The fat lady never sings here.

Nikki Giovanni

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat

Isabella Rossellini

They were hurt. To be ridiculed in the newspapers. My father was such an intellectual and moral person, to be reduced to a sexy playboy, it was humiliating.

They said they were 'slow, fat and lazy' and I think we proved something tonight.

They sure seem healthy. They're feeding. They look fat and plump.

For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

Tony Stewart

for a fat kid like me, it felt like Mount Everest.

John Mabry

It's obviously a tough situation, ... I would imagine going through the Minor Leagues in an organization where your father is the pitching coach, you probably have a little more stress or a little more scrutiny than other guys might get. But he works hard to try to make it on his own merit and do the things he needs to do.

They feared that the same fate awaited them.

Dale Jarrett

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase. We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.

Dale Jarrett

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase, ... We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.

Johnny Griffin

It's a bittersweet moment right now. His father tried to hang on.

I tried to talk to him, ... to tell him this was fate, that it didn't go through; should we think about moving on?

Geno Auriemma

I told the kids in the locker room that if you're lucky in life, sometimes fate taps you on the shoulder. You want to be ready and we were ready.

Ken Hitchcock

It's a track meet - and I'm too fat to run, ... But you just have to keep going.

It wasn't my father, ... My father was a good guy. I feel I need to fix this.

Dilma Rousseff

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Tom Brokaw

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

Dianna Agron

My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.

Dexter Scott King

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.

Dhani Harrison

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

David Alan Grier

My father was a doctor.

David Sedaris

There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married and was, in fact, quite happy to break up with her live-in boyfriend, whom she replaced with an imaginary boyfriend named Ricky. The last time she was asked out by a successful bachelor, Amy hesitated before saying, ‘Thanks for asking, but I’m really not into white guys right now.