Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

Boris Kodjoe

I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.

Eric Shinseki

In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.

Erin O'Connor

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

David Bonior

We're not going away, ... These problems aren't going to go away.

Cindy Clough

We still have the same problems we had 30 years ago.

Alfred Eder

Tomorrow our biathletes will have a lot of problems because of this situation. But it is important that they run.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Jim Clarke

Unfortunately, that's when you'll start seeing problems with a lot of the grasses.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field. The team has to get through 11 people.

John McMillan

The problems are more severe than they thought.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field, ... The team has to get through 11 people.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Naoto Kan

I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Katharine Cornell

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

Craig Barlow

That was even worse than being in the right bunker.

David McWilliams

This one is much worse than 1995 and there is more of this to go.

Mike Easley

This one is getting worse as we go forward,

Ann Hartman

We don't want anything worse than we've already gotten.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

Derrick Brooks

It could be a whole lot worse then where we are.

Richard Madden

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.