Famous Quotes & Sayings

William McNamara

I started volunteering at an animal shelter, and little by little, my life started getting better. I think that is the secret. It is just being on a mission that is something bigger than me and it's thankless. You do that because it is thankless, and I am not looking for anybody to say, 'Thanks' and 'You are great!'

Francesco Cece

The people and animals we grow to love in our life time, remain in our personal time-capsule stored deep in our heart forever, even when they are gone!

David Boothe

The peer-reviewed science also shows that human beings do not react in the same way as rats or other animals to exposure to PFOA.

Nina Easton

Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.

Nikki Sixx

It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.

Cat Power

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.

Diana Nyad

The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I've been dipped in. And I'm yelling out, 'Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!' And the next thing is paralysis.

Meg Scheu

We operate in 23 states east of the Mississippi. We have issues like debris, or wild animals. But this is obviously different.

Tippi Hedren

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

Warren Farrell

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

Felicity Kendal

Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

Frank Lowy

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Elton John

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Kenneth Oppel

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

Douglas Conant

You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.

Paul Auster

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Tony Curran

The town formerly known as St. Louis is now 'Defiance.' The scope of the show and game is going to be massive because you have the people who love the genre of gaming who love sci-fi; they're in bed together, normally.

Scott Adkins

My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Chris Carter

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

Mike Perry

The peddler exhibit will show people how important their role was to society. People depended on them because they brought in supplies such as pots, pans, needles and threads.

Mikhail Margelov

The outrage that the Danish newspaper brought about is gaining such momentum that the world community must focus on the events.

David Selby

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

David Suchet

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

Vladimir Prelog

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Alice Walker

It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Dennis Crowley

I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things.

Naveen Jain

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

Charles Hazlewood

In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'

Carly Fiorina

The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.

Erwin McManus

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

Colum McCann

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

Desi Arnaz

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

Anthony Bourdain

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Brea Grant

I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.

Bill Hader

I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

Judith Butler

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

Cassandra Clare

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

Douglas Coupland

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

Patrick Stewart

It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

John Patterson

We planned on (the zone) being a wrinkle. It ended up being a whole quarter type of thing.

Stewart Butterfield

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.

Val McDermid

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

Jeff Lenard

When gas is $3 a gallon the retailer is responsible for about 4 percent of the cost, but they are getting 100 percent of the abuse.

Noah Hathaway

So we're going to do a Battlestar Galactica themed bike and bring another one of the bikes.

Austin O'Malley

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

Alvah Bessie

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

Paul Mellon

It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

Martin Rees

There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.

Stephen Hawking

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Evan Smith

With this kind of hiccup in refinery capacity, in stretched markets like California, you could see over $4 a gallon in gas.

Alan Arkin

I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.

Jane Smith

Those of us who worked with her thought that she was very gracious with her physical self, very gracious with the public. That included in airports, on sidewalks and in restaurants.

Shane Harper

We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

Brennan Manning

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

Terry Ryan

Kenny Williams has always been very gracious in talking about us, which is flattering. And he says he's doing things that we have done and so forth, and that's awfully gracious of him. But he's done a wonderful job over there.

E. Helm

He seems to recognize people. His manners are always intact. He is very gracious when people come to see him. He is his same self in a lot of ways. He just doesn't always remember.

Bill Chapman

She had so much love. She was such a gracious lady.

Randy Roberts

She loves those volunteers. She's always gracious and kind and appreciative. It's obvious in the way she speaks to them and the way she treats them.

Tim Roemer

He was cooperative, he was frank, he was gracious with his time,

Travis Fryback

Lebanon made some adjustments and we didn't react too well.

Najib Mikati

Every time Lebanon takes a step forward, there are those who want to undermine this country.

Rafik Hariri

But Lebanon will never be ruled from Syria. This will no longer happen.

Fuad Saniora

It is as if (the Syrian protests) were a lesson to some in Lebanon to do the same.

Michel Aoun

Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions,

Saad Hariri

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

Brad Goreski

I enjoy lifting weights, but I hate doing cardio.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I have a Brazilian trainer here in New York and we do a Brazilian Butt Lift workout.

Lamar Odom

We get to have a light practice, lift a little weights, have a steak and relax a little bit.

Fred Jones

We haven't even met with lift manufacturers to know what our options are.

Jethro Tull

The poet lifts his pen as the soldier sheaths his sword.

Rick Murphy

There are construction techniques that you can remove those walls, and lift them out, and set them in other locations.

Bob Iger

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Chaske Spencer

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

Diane Centeno

We're getting a lift from markets where we hadn't advertised previously. It's small now, but we're starting to see it.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

William Maxwell

My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.

Richard Greenberg

I thought if I stopped writing, ... the world would explode.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.