Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wole Soyinka

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

Magic Johnson

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Arthur Hiller

People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.

Alice McDermott

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

I have a fond place in my heart for Arcadia and always will. I am a small-town guy and I love Arcadia.

Full Frame is where I had the first showing of my first film, 'Street Fight.' I have a fond memory of pacing around outside the theater, nervously trying to keep from throwing up. It's a magical festival, well curated, with a warm and generous spirit.

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

He doesn't seem to be very fond of them.

I have great respect and fondness for the friends, and I think that's reciprocal. I want everyone to know we're trying to respect that formal agreement.

Tom Petty

We're rather fond of it and we think you'll like it, too.

Sarah Monette

I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars.

Teresa Heinz

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

Tom Hayden

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

We may look back at the day fondly when we paid $3 a gallon.

I was only fond of the music up to a point. Rock and roll wasn't really my love.

John Dryden

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

Oliver Goldsmith

O Memory, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain

David Toms

Obviously, I'm fond of it. It's a great golf course, and I've had success playing it.

Roma Downey

Richard Chamberlain was a joy to work with-extremely gracious-generous actor. I was thrilled to meet him. I have very fond memories of being madly in love with him during the time of The Thorn Birds.

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

So many kids come here for their first time. We offer that warm, friendly atmosphere. It's the type of place where you come visit and leave with some fond memories.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

If we ever have free time, my partner and I are fond of going on walks through the local state forests and parks.

Sarah Waters

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

It was a hard-fought game, as we thought it would be. We had some issues with foul trouble, so we had to go small for a while and we had to play zone (defense), which I'm not incredibly fond of. But we found a way to win.

We have fond memories of the old location.

Horace

Do you hear, or does some fond illusion mock me?

Stephanie Mills

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

Jasika Nicole

I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.

Oliver Goldsmith

Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.

Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.