Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Billick

We both want that nasty, foul taste out of our mouths from last Sunday. All but early in the season, there's a lot riding on it right now.

William Shakespeare

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

Alan Bennett

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

Al Pacino

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

Chinua Achebe

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

Chinua Achebe

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Chinua Achebe

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Chinua Achebe

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

China Mieville

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

Houssaye Houssaye

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

Dag Hammarskjold

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

Al Pacino

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

Al Pacino

sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know

Akhil Sharma

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

William Shakespeare

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

David Sedaris

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Brooks Atkinson

The only important thing a writer needs is a subject. What the reader hungers after is not accomplished craftsmanship nor even correct grammar but a frank report of the things a writer has done, seen, and thought. None of these can be learned in the library or classroom. They have to be learned in the unsheltered world of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten into their heads.

Lee Atwater

Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.

Mark Twain

Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use

Frank Sullivan

I always knew he was no good. He was in trouble as a kid. Lying and cheating in grammar school.

Steve Burtt

He's a grammar fanatic. He has a grammar fetish. He's the one who corrects everybody.

Jeff Anderson

Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing to move toward correctness. They freeze up if they think you'll pounce on every error. You want your daughters to keep writing, since this is the best way for them to develop strong usage skills.

Jay Cooper

Going out to college campuses and lecturing them hasn't worked. I think we're going to have to start with grammar school.