Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stokes

There is blood and there certainly is some pain. Banning it would limit a veterinarian's practice. But I don't think you are going to find many who complain.

Kinky Friedman

One eye is laughing and one eye is crying. And the eye that is crying is because this governor has been invisibly banning gay marriage for the past two or three years while the education has just veered into a meteor crater somewhere.

James Morgan

Most of these (pit bulls) you are banning (are) loving family pets.

Clive Lloyd

I would have given him a lesser fine if it were not for that, but I stopped short of banning him for the last test. I have respect for the England captain and I expected the same from him,

Fred Jacobs

It is one of the most significant public health measures in our state's history. Banning smoking where people work, where they eat and drink, where they shop and where they gather to be entertained is clearly in the public interest.

Mark Rosenker

We must do everything we can to reduce these needless deaths and we strongly believe that banning wireless communications devices for teen-agers learning to drive will help significantly.

Ed Mierzwinski

States and consumer advocates think that gift card fees, such as deductions every month if you don't use the card, are unfair to consumers. Many states, led by California, have enacted legislation severely limiting or even banning such fees.

Lisa Morton

For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.

Brian Joyce

We're talking about banning a procedure, not about a woman's right to choose. It's an inhuman act. It's not necessary.

French Proverb

Life is an onion and one peels it crying

John McWhorter

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

Kristine Lilly

There is crying in soccer. But whether you win or lose, the sun is still going to come up the next day and you're still going to be able to play soccer.

Dan Fellman

We're having another fabulous year. A lot of people are crying wolf early.

Jodie Sweetin

Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!

Atharva Veda

My ears do not hear, and my eyes are not beautiful. I am in such pain; I am a poor cripple, crying at Your Door.

Jack Williamson

She ran away with me, and we were getting farther and farther from the wagon. So I waited for a place where there were no cat's-claws and jumped off, ... I got up crying and walked back to the wagon.

Erwin Siregar

She is so upset, she is crying and crying. She said, 'Why did the judge make that decision? I'm innocent.

Ivica Kostelic

She hugged me and she was crying really hard, more than I was. She was a little sick today and she told me, 'Today I give you my strength.' It was a very emotional moment because only she knows more than my mom and dad how hard my path has been.

David Riesman

Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do.

David Horowitz

The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on.

David Hockney

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

David Hockney

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Beatrice Webb

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Audrey Hepburn

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

Audrey Hepburn

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

David Walker

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

David Hyde Pierce

Her lips said 'no', but her eyes said 'read my lips'.

David Hobson

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

David Icke

I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black, and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.

David Hockney

Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.

David Hockney

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

David Hume

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

David Hume

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

David Duke

While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.

David Duchovny

If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for

David Duchovny

I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn't go through puberty until I was 35.

Bear Grylls

Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.

Bear Grylls

Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it's really going to hold them back if they don't.

Baroness Orczy

It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

Barney Frank

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay [groups] are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

Barney Frank

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

Barney Frank

I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.

Barney Frank

There were a lot of Romneys. There was the Romney who was ; going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there's the Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.

Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Peter Clarke

My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?

Merle Black

Most voters don't judge a governor on one decision,

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Kenneth Blackwell

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

Joe Manchin

We're still sitting down in Houston. He (Perry) wants us to try to take these people, ... Every governor is getting frustrated, We will help if they'll just let us.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Joe Browne

Nobody's going to do anything until the governor is consulted.

David Hyde Pierce

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

David Icke

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

David Hockney

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

Ben Stiller

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

Denis Norden

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

Denis Leary

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.

Diana Gabaldon

This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.

Diana Gabaldon

Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

Dennis Lehane

Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

David Reuben

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

David Brooks

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

August Strindberg

It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.

Arthur Rubinstein

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

Arnold Bennett

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Denis Thatcher

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

Deb Caletti

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

Dennis Miller

After 7 years of marriage, I am sure of 2 things: First, never wallpaper together and second, you'll need 2 bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

David Horowitz

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

David Hume

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

David Hume

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

David Hume

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

David Hume

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

David Hume

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

David Hume

To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?

David Hume

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

David Hume

When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Auguste Comte

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Brett Favre

Yip cabbage on three!

Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Wade Smith

She said they were very close. He was only three years younger than her.

Willie Davis

Shoot, I made three in one inning all by myself!

Giovanni Ribisi

Yes! In three months, you'll be a millionaire!