Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

Calvin Trillin

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

Cass McCombs

I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!

Bill Lee

Smoking's a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody's nicer. It's hard to be mean when you're stoned.

Bill Lee

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

Bill Maher

Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana... About 50,000 times.

Bill Maher

This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English.

Bob Marley

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

Bob Marley

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Bob Marley

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Bill Gates

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice...

John Powell

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

William Shakespeare

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

William Shakespeare

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

William Shakespeare

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Chelsea Handler

Everyone knows if you're going to take weed to school, you put it in your trapper keeper to keep it fresh.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.

Jason Blum

I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.

Janet Reno

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

Miley Cyrus

You know you're a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake.

Celia Rivenbark

To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

Al Yankovic

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

Al Gore

I smoked pot in college and in the Army...

Billy Boyd

The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.

Bill Hicks

To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.

Bruce Campbell

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.

Brian Grazer

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Brett Ratner

I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.

Antisthenes

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

Beanie Sigel

That's what I do... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke... I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that's my twist.