Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Foxx

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

Charles Bukowski

Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.

Rob Sheffield

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

Belle Boyd

I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

Barbra Streisand

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

Ayad Allawi

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

Arthur Golden

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

Barry White

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

Ari Fleischer

I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.

Brigham Young

The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.

Brendon Ayanbadejo

I think, at the end of the day, the most special thing is when a mother or a gay person comes up to you and just thanks you and calls you a hero. They say I'm a hero, but I'm just a concerned citizen and I'm just doing the right thing.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Edwidge Danticat

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

Deborah Norville

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

Edward Leigh

Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps.

Augusto Pinochet

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

Ayn Rand

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Benjamin Disraeli

Never take anything for granted.

Craig Ferguson

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.

Craig Ferguson

Twas the night before Thanksgiving.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

Arthur Guiterman

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

Calvin Klein

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.

Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.

Aaron Paul

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

Aaron Neville

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

Nigel Hamilton

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

Nathan Kress

I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Abraham Verghese

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

Allen Ginsberg

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

Alistair Cooke

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

Allen West

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.