Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beatrix Potter

Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

Beatrix Potter

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Arnold Bennett

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Charles Kingsley

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

Charles Darwin

But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.

Denis Leary

Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup — that's it.

Alanis Morissette

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

Jason Behr

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses

Carl Sandburg

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

Jason Mraz

When I finished performing 'I Won't Give Up' for the first time, I opened my eyes, and I think there was maybe six people in there when I started, and when I finished there was about 30 people, all standing around with their jaws dropped in complete silence. I said, 'Okay, I think this song has some power to it.' So coffee shops work for me.

Brandi Carlile

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

Elie Wiesel

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

Britt Ekland

I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

Tracy Morgan

I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.

John Emerson

Only 50 of the 220 possible panels would have resulted in the same ranking of the skaters following the short program.

Chad Lindberg

My advice for upcoming actors is to never give up. If it's in you, keep following your dream no matter what. Perseverence is the key.

Hu Jintao

More and more Americans are following with interest China's progress and development. Understanding leads to trust. I hope this will help you gain a better understanding of China.

Bernadette Baldino

She possessed a quiet determination. She got what she needed through following the rules. She was very diplomatic.

Sandra Sanchez

Many people think that they just simply are not following the steps. There are no legal channels.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

Amanda Pape

She's so good at following her shot. We wanted to make sure that once she shot the ball, she wasn't going to get another shot. I think we did a good job of that.

Mel Thomas

She's leading us. She's doing everything and she's playing very aggressively. We're just following her.

Shamir

My friends freaked out when I posted 'I'll Never Be Able To Love' on Facebook.

Geoff Johns

One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing.

Evan Savoie

I got up and I was freaked out, so we started running. I was just paranoid and scared.

Lucy Hale

I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

Reggie Lee

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

Shellie Samuels

He shot people on TV, he shot people in the movies, but he never really shot people in real life, ... It freaked him out.

Sofia Vassilieva

When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch.

Aimee Mullins

'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'

Penny Gienger

We freaked out. We knew they were going to pressure. ... We just weren't ready.

Michael Holland

When the market refused to acquiesce (to Cisco's news), that was uncharacteristically resilient of this market, ... People are now looking for reasons why the market isn't doing more.

Bob Tipton

We're going back and looking at some of these older intersections and seeing if they're warranted or not.

Paul Mott

We're looking at what makes the most sense.

Rick Laws

We're looking at what a market has to do to seek and find equilibrium. Those sales had to slow; otherwise sellers wouldn't get the message.

Daniel Perry

We're looking at video now from different stores, and his pictures come up several times. So it's possible he's been doing this for a while and just now getting caught.

Hector Garcia

We're looking at this as an opportunity to start over.

Chris Henson

We're looking at the things we can do to improve.

Trina Patterson

We're looking at the long run, and the long run is that this team is going to be better in the future.

Silvio Berlusconi

We're looking at the accounts, ... There are situations where we will probably need to intervene.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Shannon Hoon

You start wanting to see a different place every day.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

Busta Rhymes

Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!

Carson Kressley

Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.

Trey Burke

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

Bobbi Brown

She's going to start recording, ... Hopefully, I will get to work with her on this album.

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Harold Schaitberger

There's a breakdown. We've got firefighters still trapped in New Orleans.

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up