Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Burke

Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.

Bob Ross

Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.

William Shakespeare

But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

Louis C. K.

My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny.

William Shakespeare

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

Catherine Bell

I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

Bryan Clay

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

Brian Tee

My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

Brian Bonsall

I dont think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because were pretty much two different kinds of actors. Hes done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like Uncle Buck and Home Alone and Home Alone 2. And Ive done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.

Sandra Witelson

We're going to need to be careful if, in the future, we use MRI brain scans as a measure of ability in any selection process.

J. M. Roberts

What we're most worried about is brain recovery. Anybody who suffers anoxic brain injury -- inadequate oxygen to the brain -- can develop a longtime disability.

Joe Farren

What about the young parents whose baby sitter is trying to call them, or the brain surgeon who needs notification of emergency surgery. These calls need to get through.

Carol Mann

What happens is that women tend to panic when they're losing it. Whereas, generally speaking, men, rather than panic, go to another place: resignation. At a U.S. Open, panic is worse. Your brain floods, everything slips away, and there is nothing you can do.

Dr. McKinlay

We found that on I.Q. and other aspects of brain function, as well as kidney function, the group that received the mercury-based amalgam was exactly the same as those that received a composite.

Helen Christensen

We found that, on average, men aged 64 years have smaller brains than men aged 60. However, despite this shrinkage, cognitive functions -- like memory, attention and speed of processing -- are unaffected.

Ernie Irvan

We can do a lot more in our everyday lives to prevent brain injuries. I'd like to see everyone here, when they buy that next car, make sure it has side airbags. And make sure kids under 15 always wear a helmet for bike riding, skateboarding, rollerblading. We could save a life a day just by doing that.

James Logan

Years ago, how do you think they made the atomic bomb? ... By having people with the brains to do it.

David Madden

We feel that results of our tests represent an important first step understanding the complex relationships between aging, brain structure and cognitive performance. The brain can be very plastic in how it re-directs pathways and functions in response to circumstances.

Bill Graves

We're going to melt down all of ours down and make a glass parrot for the Brass Parrot. We'll hang it beside the cigarette machine.

Charles Ives

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Tex Hall

We have to get down to the brass tacks. If this is going to move, we, as tribal leaders, have got to put a (settlement) figure in this bill. Right now, it's blank. We can't leave it blank.

Charles Dickens

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Buff Bradley

I was so excited (when Brass Hat had the lead in the deep stretch). He was proving he's one of the best in the world.

Gary Wright

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

Scott Shane

One thing that in my reporting that I found and was amazed to find was that, as far as I could determine, neither high-level White House officials in the Bush administration nor even the top brass at the CIA even knew the history of water boarding when they approved it.

Janet Norwood

He got up and headed, he was going to go to the computer, and I said, 'No, it's not the computer. I could see the big brass buttons reflecting light (through the front door). That's a sight I'll never forget. There's something inside of me that still says to this day, if we just hadn't opened the door.

Frankie Dettori

I couldn't shake Brass Hat off. He was always a threat.