Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabih Alameddine

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

Bruce Cheney

Like everybody else, I enjoy my privacy and I don't want it invaded. At the same time, I enjoy breathing fairly regularly, and I don't want, for the sake of having to take my shoes off when I'm boarding a plane, to die because I got fussy about my shoes,

Trinny Woodall

I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular about what I'd wear. I remember feeling most aggrieved that I had to put on a dull uniform to go to boarding school.

Deirdre O'Kane

Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

Marie-Chantal Claire

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

Jared Harris

I was stuck in boarding school when I was seven years old and I knew that the only way to get out was to go pass your exams, so I studied.

Tom Ridge

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

Ted Naifeh

The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

Imogen Heap

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

David Brock

Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

Sophia Amoruso

Lots of people are going to sell clothes online. But not a lot of people have built a brand, a living, breathing brand that people feel like they're part of.

Nick DeWitz

We are going to kick them when they are down. They've been struggling, so we are not going to give them any breathing room.

Elizabeth Thornton

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

Lajos Egri

Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

Ben E. King

I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.

Candis Cayne

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

Ron Resnick

The reality is that a standard is an evolving document. It's a living, breathing reflection of what the market wants.

Alison Swank

One of the two suspicions is that there was an indirect lightning strike which may have caused the zebra to go into the moat and drown. The other is she had a preexisting medical condition causing problems with her throat and lungs, causing breathing problems, and she may have gone into the moat and drowned as a result.

Jennifer Humphrey

We're looking at ourselves as the underdogs still. Nobody's just going to lay down and die because we earned a bye. We have to go out and fight.

Ezra Pound

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Tony Stewart

Like I said after we won the Brickyard 400, ... if I die tomorrow, when I wake up, I've had a great life to this point.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

Life is a long dream and when you die you wake-up from the nightmare.

Mark Twain

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Make sure that our state doesn't get into the same mess that San Diego got into,

Jeff Taylor

Let's live to be 100 or die trying.

Bill Rodgers

Let your running lead you to your diet.

Evan Osnos

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

Arnold Palmer

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

Charles Comiskey

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

Kevin Costner

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.

Kierston Wareing

I love all the premieres and everything that goes with it, but my favourite part is being on set and to go to work and enjoy your job. Not many people can say that in life.

John F. Kerry

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

Granth Sahib

When the Husband does not enjoy His bride, then her youth passes away in vain.

Kylie Minogue

I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment.

Taron Egerton

If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

John Ridley

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

Bradley Horowitz

We always felt that being unbiased was part of the search mission, ... lets you peer over to see what everybody has got.

Kenny Chesney

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

Kevin Sorbo

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

John Grogan

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'

Joey Ramone

There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Lizzy Caplan

Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.

Joe Mantegna

Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.

Theophilus London

When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

Catherine Jinks

When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older and more conservative, it's not an issue any more.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Lee Westwood

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Robert Garrison

We did fairly well considering we've only had most of the girls for about a week and the Texas schools were in their third or fourth meet.

Pansy Tlakula

The process has been fairly smooth with only minor hiccups.

Mark Goddard

The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Adam Lamberg

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

Jessica Raine

Shoes are a good starting point. I've become quite fussy about them! A patent pair of Sonia Rykiel oxfords have become invaluable.

Caroline Winberg

I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.

Kevin Keen

Hey it's state tournament, I am not fussy where we play.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Bob Dylan

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Kenneth Brown

This protects students' privacy rights as well as professors.

Dana Milbank

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

Bob Iger

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

Edward Snowden

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back

bell hooks

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

Eduardo Saverin

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Daniel Craig

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Tina Fey

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

Jane Austen

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

David Giuntoli

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

Jan Karon

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Bill Johnson

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

Bob Black

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Benjamin Franklin

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Boris Yeltsin

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

Edward Abbey

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

Charles Babbage

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Blake Lively

Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.

Blake Mycoskie

People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it is, no it did not change my life. But when I went to Argentina on that first shoe-drop, it did change my life.

Blake Mycoskie

TOMS is no longer a shoe company... we're a one-for-one company.

Blake Mycoskie

Who is Tom? There is no Tom. If we sell a pair of shoes today, we give away a pair of shoes tomorrow. Originally we thought of "Tomorrow's Shoes," but I could only fit "TOMS" on the label. I had no idea everybody would want to meet him. There is no Tom; it's an idea for a better tomorrow.

Bill Hicks

Humanity is just a virus with shoes.

Alexandra Paul

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Azar Nafisi

It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them. . .

Aziz Ansari

Oh, what's this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I'm walking on red carpet.