Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shatner

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

Warren Bennis

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

William Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Zubin Mehta

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

Colin Morgan

If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had a magic kit, but it's not something I ever pursued. I've never watched a magic show like David Copperfield or used him to base my character on, but I really like David Blaine and Darren Brown. They are doing wonders.

Emma Roberts

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan; I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.

Ellen G. White

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

Ellen G. White

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

Catherine Hicks

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

Dylan Lauren

I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide.

Paul Pierce

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

Tinashe

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

Jeff Losch

We have made a concerted effort to make sure the kids remember to have fun. We practiced Christmas Eve morning between 9 and 11 a.m. and we had some of the coaches and ex players playing a little. We want to get them back into the mode of having fun. Nobody has their heads down.

Kate Christensen

Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.

Ellen Davis

When Halloween merchandise starts to sell, moving in Christmas merchandise is a natural transition.

Elizabeth Warren

Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.

Richard Baxter

We planned this performance for families to go to in the afternoon, prior to the Super Bowl. So the day isn't all sports.

Tamsin Greig

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

Macaulay Culkin

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

Victoria Osteen

One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.

Bill Owens

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

Gordon Miller

We are giving the families all the support we can.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.

James Donahue

We have two families that have intersected in time and the tragedy is horrendous and there's nothing we can do about it. It's just very, very sad.

Vera Wang

I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

Bob Stalker

We've had just about everything -- snow, sleet, freezing rain, even a thunderstorm.

Randy Lascody

So if it doesn't quite get to freezing on Saturday, it will sure feel like it, even while wearing a jacket.

Lesley Nicol

When I heard I had gotten 'Downton Abbey,' I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of 'West is West.'

Bill Cox

I'm sitting here in my office and it's freezing and we've got the heat on full blast.

Richard Ford

We can't get them all in the church. There were hundreds of people waiting outside. They come. They come from Lord knows where, rain or shine, freezing or warm.

Mark Mathias

There is potential for squeezes and prices to go up. But people won't be left freezing and unable to heat their homes.

Sam Shamburger

We had some freezes, but not the prolonged kind of freezing that would help with mosquito problems this spring.

Suzi Quatro

I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms.

Bridget Regan

I long for an audience. I ache for it. I think that's one of the hardest things about the television medium is that you don't get that. You don't get that immediate response.

Tite Kubo

The hardest thing about being a manga-ka is that it's a weekly thing.

Alexander Payne

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

French Montana

The hardest situation to pick up a girl in is ... in church and in Morocco on Ramadan. On Ramadan or one of those religious days? Try to pick up a girl is bananas.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.

Peter Jackson

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

Raymond Arroyo

'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

Marilynne Robinson

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

Jessica Moreau

We have the perfect team to take it home and to just win everything. What's going to matter is whoever works hardest and has the most heart, and who shows up on the ice.

Don Jennings

We're due. We really need one heading into the break.

Rodney Brooks

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.

Darris Olson

We are playing better as a team. The bullseye is on us now heading into districts.

Ashley Davies

We remain long dollar/yen from 116.70 heading into the new year.

Quinton Young

We wanted to win the conference, and even though we didn't do that we still have a lot to prove. We're heading up there with a swagger.

Rich Schoff

Luke's been playing very well lately. He's playing at a level where I'd like every to be playing heading into sectionals.

Jennifer Schack

We're heading up to 56 for a high today. We have plenty of sunshine.

Paul McManus

We're heading for a recovery, not for a double-dip.

Plaxico Burress

Our offense has to go out and be crisp, be sharp. We have to do everything we can, not so much to pick up the defense, but to give us some momentum heading into the playoffs.

Bill Baker

We played okay. We had 15 hits and we had an eight-run second inning.

Deke Richards

I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.

Gary Enis

We had opportunities tonight to make plays, make pitches, and get hits. They just got more timely hits than we did.

Tom Kelly

Yeah, we hollered at him. 'Stay on the ball! Stay on the ball!' Now he stands right in there and hits it that way nine miles and hits it this way nine miles.

Huey Lewis

We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller.

Mike Hargrove

We had nine hits and scored three runs. Sometimes you don't get the hits when you need them.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations you have to come through. Because two-out hits are pretty clutch.

Joe Farmer

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Becky Harrold

When we got the passes, we could not get our hits to fall. We were doing all the things we needed to do, but were not doing them well enough.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Edward Snowden

I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

David Bailey

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

Alan Levenson

The overall affordability of a home is still ample,

Colonel Sanders

I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

A. Hodge

We didn't rush back into it. There was consideration of not reopening.

Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Camilla Luddington

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Justin Jeffre

We're going to take our time and do what we feel is right. We're not rushing anything.

Mark Pellegrino

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

Mariella Frostrup

There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

Glenn Fisher

We still have our sights set on the WCHA (title).

William Shakespeare

Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

Charlotte Bronte

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

Charles de Lint

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight...

Charles de Lint

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Charles Dickens

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

Alan Jackson

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor, or did you just sit down and cry?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

Dave Barry

What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.

Scott Chandler

You can't really worry about it. It's nothing that's going to keep me from sleeping at night.

Steven Lima

What we're doing in sleeping is a very old evolutionary phenomenon.

Randy Foye

He?s driving. I?m sleeping on the way back.

Dave Adams

He had been sleeping the whole time and was totally disoriented,

Carolyn Clark

It's better than sleeping with the mosquitoes and the bugs. I'll take anything to get there.

Keith LeGree

The sleeping disorder, that didn't even come up in trial. I had said something about it, but it had nothing to do with the trial.

Ted Purdy

Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow.

Byron Scott

We were soft. That's why we got down 12-0. We were soft the whole game.

Bill Smith

We had to redo the entrance. It went soft for some reason.

Alan Moore

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

Alan Jackson

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

Dave Barry

In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.

Catherine Bell

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Beverly Johnson

Rocks make no compromise for sex... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.

Dawn Staley

A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

David Duval

Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Maria Rodriguez

You've got to go to the streets to get to the table.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Martha Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Lena Headey

I almost never get recognised in the street.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.