Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Crichton

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Mia Love

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

Mia Farrow

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

Meshell Ndegeocello

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

Melissa Bank

You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

Michael Zaslow

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

Michel de Montaigne

The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

Michel de Montaigne

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Markus Zusak

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

Judah Friedlander

Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.

Robert Browning

Leave the flesh to the fate it was fit for! the spirit be thine!

Ahmet Zappa

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

Richard P. Feynman

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

No fat suit. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Benjamin Franklin

Nick's Passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive!

Ken Kesey

But as Garcia said, you know, the '60s ain't over till the fat lady gets high. And that means that whatever it takes to get you high: sometimes grief, sometimes it's prayer, fasting. I prefer a joint.

J. Paul Getty

My father said: ''You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.''

My father said, 'You better get out of Hong Kong. They are real barbarians'.

Tess Gerritsen

My father said writing was a nice hobby, ... Not something you could make money at.

Randy Owen

My father passed away two weeks after we signed with RCA at the start of our career. He taught me to play guitar and to love poetry. And Hank Williams was my daddy's favorite.

Carme Ruscalleda

My father never took me to a restaurant, we didn't have the social status or the money.

Laila Ali

My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

Charles Manson

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system.... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

My father and mother were killed by the Japanese. I hated the Japanese very much.

Jim Fox

My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Jim Fox

My father always told me, ''Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.''

Dana Carvey

My fate is very precarious, ... I don't want the show to suffer because I may not be able to come back next week.

Johnathon Schaech

My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.

My father worked for GE for 40 years,

Joshua Slocum

My father was the sort of man who, if wrecked on a desolate island, would find his way home, if he had a jack-knife and could find a tree.

Now we know that fat is metabolically active.

Pat Robertson

Never in my wildest dreams, Michael, that - never did I think that I - I thought that - I'd be a lawyer. My father was a lawyer.

Robert Thompson

Obviously, we are disappointed. We never want to see fatalities go up. Even one fatality is too many.