Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patch Adams

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

Russ Hellickson

We are glad to have Tom join us this summer. He will be taking over the camps next year and this will provide him the opportunity to meet the kids and the coaches. We are a tight wrestling community and it will be a great combination for everyone this summer.

Pico Iyer

There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going to count as a psychiatric disorder in a couple of years.

Richard Engel

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.

Jeremy Jackson

We have been working hard all summer by going to camps and stuff and we just pulled through and won the game,

John Griffin

We have to know where the roads are to know where the camps are,

Zhang Xin

Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

Mark Joseph

We are hoping to have Croatian and Russian coaches run the camps and clinics.

Ron Redmond

We reminded the government of Chad that it has the primary responsibility for ensuring the security of refugee camps on its territory.

Helen Bolling

When you get old, you get tense, and part of my clowning is to relax myself.

Jaime Camil

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

Mary Lou Williams

He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.

Orla Brady

I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

Sebastian Rothman

I learned my lesson there. I was playing with Thompson and made the mistake of not respecting his determination. I left the gap and he took it. It was a hard lesson. It cost me a world title. But I promise you one thing. You won't ever see me clowning around again.

Haley Bennett

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

Mark Evans

The kids always like to see the clowns and decorations and horses. It's kind of the old-school rodeo parade. We encourage people to come out and enjoy the hometown event.

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.

Karen Bell

We have a core group of clowns and we're all dealing with the emotions. We have to support each other. We have a strong net that keeps us from falling.

Roger Bart

It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.

Matt Morelock

It was no longer a social instrument. It was now a performance (instrument) by clowns in blackface performing a very racist stage show to a seated audience.

Frank Miller

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

Fairfax Cone

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Brad Shaw

I think everybody should take a trip up that elevator once in their life.

Diane Holley

We wanted a better solution to provide more elevator service while work is in progress.

Peter Swire

What's done in the elevator stays in the elevator. Except when it doesn't.

Macaulay Culkin

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

Steve Israel

now seeking an appropriation for an elevator for Anthony Hall.

Benjamin Harrison

I don't think people ought to take the elevator if they (can) walk, because they don't get to see the stairway,

Bill Doyle

She opened the letter in an elevator and got dizzy. She was in total shock. She never expected this.

Richard Anderson

It's going to require an elevator and that's going to be very expensive.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

Corbin Bernsen

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

Ron Heck

We produce a lot of soy, but none of us are on the scale of the Brazilian growers.

Julien Pain

We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.

Anna Paquin

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

Peter O'Toole

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

Warren Sapp

You know what, none of what he's done has been all that bad,

Charles Kent

You know the Mayor's always talking about quality of life, but there is none around here,

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

Al Sharpton

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Eartha Kitt

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

John Stossel

I like taking the subway to work.

Cassandra Clare

Demon slayers take the subway?

Fran Lebowitz

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

Nancy Williams

It's very scary. But I have to take the subway to work.

Piper Perabo

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress I got lost on the subway.

Neil Patrick Harris

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

Shepard Smith

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

Walt Mossberg

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Common

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

Samuel Butler

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Christian McKay

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

Pink

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

Walter Benjamin

It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.

Walter Benjamin

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

James Thurber

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

Ralph Waite

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

Donald Rumsfeld

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Brad Pitt

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

Solomon Short

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Bernard Law Montgomery

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

Bob Newhart

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

Bruce Jackson

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.