Famous Quotes & Sayings

bell hooks

My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.

Amin Maalouf

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

Stuart Scott

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

St. Jerome

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Ringo Starr

No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.

Lewis Carroll

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!

Joyce Meyer

If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

Julie Morgenstern

Clean and restock your car at the end of each trip. No matter how tired you are, resist the temptation to let that empty muffin bag wait until mañana. Tomorrow turns into next week, next month...

Joseph Goebbels

The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

Kacy Catanzaro

I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

K. D. Lang

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

Kathryn Stockett

I'm tired of the rules," I say.

Manolo Blahnik

I get more tired by travelling than anything.

John McCain

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

Gavin DeGraw

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

Haruki Murakami

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

John Dryden

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Jimmy Connors

I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

Arthur Ransome

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

Beth Moore

...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

Bill Joy

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

Alexander Woollcott

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Jerry Johnson

Tired is not a question. We had (defensive) lapses.

Agatha Christie

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else." "Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality.

Adoniram Judson

I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

Jim Norton

We got tired of hauling it all over,

Bernie Bickerstaff

We got tired and we started to make mistakes. And we just didn't make shots.

Robert Kiyosaki

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

David Chase

People get so tired of the '60s.

Dave McKean

You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love. Narrative, image-making, also sound and music. It's so full that I can't really imagine getting tired of it. Or getting to the point like I feel like I know it.

Darryl F. Zanuck

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Dave Eggers

And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.

David Leavitt

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.