Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Farrell

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

Felicity Kendal

Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

Frank Lowy

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Elton John

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Kenneth Oppel

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

Douglas Conant

You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.

Paul Auster

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Tony Curran

The town formerly known as St. Louis is now 'Defiance.' The scope of the show and game is going to be massive because you have the people who love the genre of gaming who love sci-fi; they're in bed together, normally.

Scott Adkins

My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude.

Colm Keaveney

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

Tom Felton

It took us a lot of man hours to get that bloody white hair out, so it's good to get rid of it.

Adam Michnik

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

William Shakespeare

Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.

Imelda Staunton

You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.

Sarah McLachlan

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

Denis Thatcher

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

Paul Eenhoorn

From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written.

Howard Fast

I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.

Walt Mossberg

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

Vivek Wadhwa

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

Bill Calder

The Pentium name is the quintessential name of the gigahertz era. The gigahertz era is over.

Brian Kernighan

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

Brian Kernighan

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Neil Kurshan

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

Rick Perlstein

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Nina Easton

Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties.

Nick Jonas

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Paul Kantner

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Brian Harper

We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.

Cao Yu

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Nikki Blonsky

Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.

Mark Anderson

We are concerned. There is a going rate for fruit-picking which is about $30 a bin. They are expected to do five bins a day.

Lee Watkins

When they evacuated, what most people took out was what they could put in a car. ... I don't think any of them expected total devastation.

Alison Moyet

My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

Anne F. Beiler

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

David Alan Grier

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

Haz Iwendi

We are on red alert. All state commissioners of police are under instructions to monitor developments and prevent any violence.

Dean Cox

We're able to monitor without physically being on scene and if we see indications of trouble, then we send people out.

Yvonne Smith

We don't do the pill because we don't have any way to monitor what they are taking every day.

Rich Ackermann

We wanted a tool that was not intrusive and was able to monitor the end-to-end experience.

J. M. Roberts

I think it's something we are going to have to monitor over the next two weeks to two months.

Frank Sacks

More people will take it and many people think it's the panacea, which it's not, ... Who's going to monitor it to see if it's effective? There's no monitoring for safety.

Vidal Querol

Monitor well and be ready for any contingency.

Phil Evans

NBA teams can be there to monitor (player) development or take part in development. They could work out a player before practice or after practice.

Mark Black

If they aren't able to be out on the floor, they are able to monitor what's going on in the school.

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Eric Fellner

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Suranand Vejjajiva

We probably have to take it into consideration for our next step.

Chris Houston

We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.

Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Jim Christian

We had an unbelievable run in 2002, and that team will always be special in Kent State history. But this team will be in the very next paragraph.