Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Hammer

The only curse left is the little goat on the North Side,

Vincent Millay

Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? Edna St

Patricia Richardson

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.

Alaina Huffman

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Mike Flanagan

You want to see the mood of this town change. People will dog curse you on the street. I mean, we just have to get this right.

Tom Petty

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.

O. Singh

My life in this world is cursed and worthless!

Bill O'Reilly

Sean Penn is a left-wing guy, ... He's been that way, his father was that way, he's always going to be that way. He goes down to New Orleans with his boat, he rescues some people, and he does some good. The right kills him, and his wife curses at the right - it's all just a whole big charade. It doesn't really mean anything other than the fact that the guy did actually rescue some people.

Keith Brooking

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Don Everly

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.

James Blankenship

We played well for about a quarter and a half, but after that we didn't play well at all. When we didn't protect on that punt in the second quarter and gave them a short field, that really started to turn things. And then, when we got tired, we started making mental mistakes.

Tana Croft

We played well, but we still struggled on the service line. We missed 19 serves. We gave them 19 points and somehow still won.

Joe Killilea

We played well tonight. You have to give up something. We gave up the outside shots and they hit them.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Seinabo Sey

I got introduced to Maps by my label, and I liked his sound. I had been living with the original version of 'Younger' for quite a long time when I heard the result of his remix, and I loved it. It actually made me find a new love for the track.

Taylor Mali

The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex.

Bob Newhart

The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

Lilly Singh

Everyone's voice should be heard when it comes to racial barriers.

Charlize Theron

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

Frankie Valli

The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my teens. I did my first record, which was an old standard called 'My Mother's Eyes.' It was the old Georgie Jessel theme. I heard it on local radio out of Newark. And it was very exciting!

Larry Hagman

I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.

Marc Faber

The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.

Ferdinand Piech

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

Terry Teachout

No translation can possibly be perfect. Every production and every performance is a different path up the mountain, and nobody ever makes it all the way to the summit.

John Ravitz

We're not going to have to put the voters and our staff through something that nobody seemed to want.

Poppy Harlow

I've made my mistakes at CNN. As I learn and I grow, one thing that has always stuck with me is you can never be over-prepared, and nobody can fight the facts.

Nils Frederiksen

We'll review any request that's made to this office. At this point, nobody has made a request.

Dirk Matson

Unfortunately, there does seem to be a need for younger kids' treatment. Nobody does anything until there's a problem.

Robert Lang

You know you're doing something special, and part of something, but nobody is thinking about it day to day.

Yahya Jammeh

Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.

Jim Elam

We need to know how to save a penny once in a while or write a check. You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to do that.

Alan Foreman

We don't get a penny for that. We just do it because we know we need to do it.

Kelly Rutherford

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

Lee Erickson

It amounts to about a penny a beer.

Craig Williams

It is whether the penny drops. He's got to where he is on raw ability.

Christine Gregoire

The first time a penny is deducted from the states, we'll precipitate state lawsuits,

Bob Ulrich

could be at risk by a penny or two if sales remained weaker than expected.

Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year

Lloyd Brown

The idea is that we're not going to spend every penny of that. It's just the total budgeted amount.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

John Scott

That's showing the rise in PKA activity, and the drop.

William Congreve

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

John Kruk

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

William Adams

My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Jim Colborn

I was very impressed. He seemed to get stronger as he went along. He stayed in his delivery.

Lindsay Davenport

I was, today, trying to get a lot of just first serves in and not tried to go for too much, ... (It) seemed to work.

Gina Hern

There is a terrible indentation where the implant is misplaced.

Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Laurie Simmons

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Libba Bray

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty