Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Baker

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Gerald R. Ford

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Orson Scott Card

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

Tom Izzo

We were running everything through him. It was kind of fun to do for once.

Chauncey Billups

We were running around having fun. We were pretty much playing pre-season minutes, which is working out well.

We don't make fun of the music in the slightest. We treat it with the utmost respect.

Bob Harper

We don't make fun of them. It's an inspirational show, and the contestants are so courageous. We're here to help them, not hurt them.

We are working to make sure the funding is there for the school districts. We have made a commitment. If we are not able to secure funding, we will pull the rule.

We have been in similar situations in so many instances. We know what it is like to do without. Every year gets better and better because we know where the funds are going, and see the successes that this money brings.

Michael Monaghan

We have got a war going on, and the veterans are returning home in greater numbers than when we didn't have a war. Our veterans have been overseas doing for our protection. ... We would like to see the state of Illinois increase funding for the program.

We have fun with it. The team loves it. It's a way to get away from basketball. It's what we do as a team to get closer.

We have fun doing this. A lot of fun.

We're all going to hang out afterwards, so it's going to be fun.

Matt Birk

We put the fun in dysfunctional, don't we?

Don Nelson

We would play a team that's one hour away 300 miles away from home. That would be fun.

We would fund the whole project with grants and funds.

Malcolm Forbes

Presence is more than just being there.

Kurt Vonnegut

People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

Kurt Vonnegut

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

Kurt Vonnegut

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Vandana Shiva

I do have fun. Even when I’m fighting I’m enjoying it: I think there’s nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.

Vandana Shiva

We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of an ancient heritage of collective innovation. We work from the grassroots all the way to the national government and the World Trade Organization. It basically means being very multidimensional in our campaigns. And that is where part of the fun is. It involves both resistance and creativity. It involves constructive action, while at the same time saying "no."

William Shakespeare

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

Karel Capek

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

Karen Armstrong

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.