Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Irving

It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

John Howard

They might be a good friend, but they are also a bitter commercial rival. Let's not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry has done everything it possibly can to criticize the Australian wheat industry in order to take the Iraqi wheat market from us.

John Hodgman

That catharsis is really the core of the incredibly personal comedy of Louis C.K. or Marc Maron or whatever. And look - I find it fascinating that I'm sitting here talking about some of these things, and not to low tones, and my kids are in the other room. I have to trust that if they hear what I'm saying and they have questions about it, I'll be able to answer it, and that's fine. But that's part of the scariness of it - the reality of opening up my own life and my own feelings.

John Frusciante

Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!

John Dos Passos

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right

Joe Jackson

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

Garry Shandling

Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

Garrett Hedlund

It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.

Jimmy Carl Black

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

Jacques Villeneuve

A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.

David LaChapelle

What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!

There are some big smiles on our kids after that game.

Alan Ladd

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have

Our kids do very well. The quality of our school is a reflection of Leo.

Flip Saunders

We'd like to mix our young kids with our veteran players if we can, to have them play with our veterans. But every night, we still want to go out and win.

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Olly Murs

I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.

Dan Mullen

We need to know what kids are reading, what they are saying.

Typically it's a Catch-22. A lot of the adults don't like to come in when the kids are in there.

Adam Young

It's been very humbling and very cool to see [that at] each show I tend to see more and more kids lock onto the new lyrics and every night they start to sing louder and louder and it's just been very exciting.

Usually, when you're one of the better kids in your area, there's a lot of people that try to talk to you.

Dane Cook

I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

Dave Eggers

But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

David Letterman

The White House has now put together a website for kids. It's a website to teach kids how to manage a budget responsibly. The website is called ' Irony.gov. '

David Garrett

A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.

Darrell Issa

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

We've been consistently getting kids into the finals, so we're consistently putting up photos.

Without you guys, the kids wouldn't be able to play there.

Dan Savage

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

Daniella Alonso

Ive always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

Cormac McCarthy

They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I come out here for my health.

When big kids get better and they realize it and it clicks, sometimes they take off.