Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Ryan

We pretty much cleared the benches by early in the third quarter. We played a lot of kids, which was nice, ... I would say a large number of kids had two or more quarters. There were very few starters who had four quarters, and the only ones who did were kids who were filling in on a special team here or there in the fourth quarter.

Barry Gibb

We could have been sleeping on park benches now but fortunately everything turned out well, much better than we had ever hoped.

Main Street

We have the ?Keep Main Street Blooming? project, and we honor downtown businesses, and we have donated two benches and matching garbage cans ... make it a better, happier, more fun place to be.

Alan Keyes

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

Marcia Townsend

We also want to get more benches and tables. It's a nice place to come to just sit and relax and read a book.

Nora Roberts

Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

Nancy Astor

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

Bruce Hoffman

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

Ken Gaddy

You can go get ideas from any institution, other museum, or public space. Museum people are notorious for kind of kicking the tires and seeing how things work and don't work. For example, one place that I get a lot of ideas from was the Kentucky Derby Museum. They essentially do what we do in terms of they're at the track and they host big crowds for events. They host a lot of media. Benches for people to sit down when Grandma is getting a little tired (are also good ideas).

Dar Williams

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

Toni Jennings

We know you're running out to the gas station to fill up and fill up your cans for your generators. Please just remember your neighbor needs this just as well, ... Let's not overdo it. You need to do what you need to do, but there's no panic necessary here.

Philip Guedalla

The cheerful clatter of Sir James Barrie's cans as he went round with the milk of human kindness.

John Tierney

Rinsing out tuna cans and tying up newspapers may make you feel virtuous, but recycling could be America's most wasteful activity.

Beth McGinley

We did get a couple of things back. Some of it was in the truck and some of it was in a garbage can outside (of Valley Truck and Trailer) in the pouring-down rain. I actually had to dig through the garbage cans to get some things back.

Tom Baker

When it rained, I ran from floor to floor and room to room, placing garbage cans and buckets under the rain that was leaking into the building,

Mari VanderWal

When I worked in Ames at the recycling center we had two containers - pop cans and two-liter bottles. Now we have seven different sizes in plastic, and they expect us to separate them all out. Do all of that on the same penny.

Sean Maguire

I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me.

Natsuo Kirino

For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.

Whoopi Goldberg

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

Natalie Cole

I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

E. Hurley

We are seeing in 2005 about a 40% drop in vehicles being donated to Goodwill. And as I understand it, that's pretty typical around the country.

Renee Williams

We have a great variety of items donated for the auction.

Patricia Murray

We had equipment that had been donated to us used years ago from varying sources. There was nothing that was the same.

Patricia Lewis

Usually it's just a concert, but we've had extensive celebrations recently. Four to five restaurants have donated in the past, and we've been able to sample the food and have contests, too.

Carolyn Nalley

This is a good lesson for the kids at the school. They have had them out sorting out donated items - putting sheets with sheets, pillows with pillows, piling them up for distribution.

Stephanie Hill

Marriott has donated full meals in the past,

John Winters

I thought I could be there; I thought I could help. We made the first one and donated it to the city, and it's just kind of mushrooming from there.

Dennis Christopher

I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.

Tim Conway

I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know?

Keith Rothfus

I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. I'm not a Wall Street lawyer, I'm a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.

Tom Chiappetta

We were happy in terms of everything. There were a lot of people in downtown Bridgeport having fun.

Ross Perot

Trevor's got 2,000 people trapped in a hospital in downtown New Orleans, ... We need to figure out how to help them and get those people out.

H. Hunt

We must make sure our downtown welcomes people from all walks of life.

Noam Chomsky

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

Kevin Barnes

We are housing the very element we are fighting against. Downtown residents live in fear.

Michael Bergin

We were a loud, extended family. My grandparents had a store in downtown Waterbury called International Foods, and my grandmother runs it to this day.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Mark Twain

The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme

Becky G

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

Brad Goreski

I'm obsessed with sparkle for men. It's so funny watching people's reaction to a disco-ball shoe!

Bill Hader

There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.

Bill Hader

Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.

Joshua Freeman

We needed our parks mowed. We needed our garbage picked up.

Mel Lastman

Where's your garbage chute, Gordo? This one's for Mel.

Joe Borowski

What a garbage way to lose the game.

Craig Miller

We're riding a garbage truck. Who doesn't want to ride around on the back of a garbage truck?

Andy King

I myself only had my garbage picked up last week, and when I went home, my wife told me about it,

Connie Johnson

You can't get shrimp with so much garbage out there. You'd tear your nets up.

Terry Brooks

One summer we played for a week at being Knights of the Round Table, using broom handles as swords and lances and metal garbage can lids as shields.

Billie Joe Armstrong

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

Peri Gilpin

So I step out of the shower, and I look out the window, and I notice the garbage man looking right in at me. So I say, 'Did you get a good look?' and he says, 'Not completely, turn around.' Then he smiled and he was missing a tooth, and that's when the romance went right out of it.

Yayoi Kusama

The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

Richard Rohr

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

Mike Nichols

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

Suzanne Gray

To win that kind of tournament really is an honor for them. To win it twice in a row (would be) even more of an honor.

Jon Corzine

We'll never surrender looking for ways to honor our local hero, who made it big in this land of hopes and dreams.

Terry Davis

You do not honor the memory of the victims by spilling more blood.

Brian Gionta

To be up there with him is an honor.

John Matthews

We wanted to honor Jim Rosenblatt by naming this regatta after him.

William Shakespeare

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

David Walton

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

Paul Kantner

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Jerry Sloan

We played a lot harder. That's the main thing. That was interesting that we did that.

Vicky Hartzler

I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.

Ansel Elgort

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

Kurt Vonnegut

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

Kathy Holleman

The problem with that is there is just no telling when you would get a matching organ.

Babe Paley

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

Kourtney Kardashian

Mom always told us to wear pretty, matching underwear.

Cassandra Clare

Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts?

Cheryl Tweedy

I always wear a matching set,a nice thong and a nice bra. I could'n wear underpant now.

George Kafkarkou

Each suite in the lineup is matching up to those particular segments.

Brian Jones

I'm scared of them already. I'm already thinking about matching up with them next season. It's going to be tough.

Miuccia Prada

They are mostly separates, ... We have some skirts matching with some blousons. Mainly, I showed the ones that I think are the more interesting.

Gallant

When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

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.

Donnie Yen

A gesture, a smile, or just walking down the street is an expression.

Maria Rodriguez

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

Fernando Ferrer

You could go to any New Yorker on the street and they will tell you they are having an affordability crisis,

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.