Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Fletcher

Like his that lights a candle to the sun.

Susan Isaacs

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Gedde Watanabe

Sixteen Candles was my first film. I was 28 years old studying Shakespeare in New York, and it just freaked me out that this thing got so well known.

Adlai E. Stevenson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Alan Ackerman

We're still three-to-four weeks away from second-quarter earnings reports and there's nothing really to light a candle under stocks,

Cristela Alonzo

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

William Valentine

Never leave a candle unattended keep it one foot away from combustibles and don't place it near windows or doorways where drafts can occur. Of course keep candles away from any sort of flammable liquids.

Bible Bible

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked: / For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Angela Brown

If we see a candle that's lit, it will be removed.

David Henry Hwang

I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.

David Henry Hwang

I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

David Brooks

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.

Ben Stiller

When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.

Bear Grylls

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Audrey Tautou

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

Jerry Maren

She was one of the all-time money makers for the studio, ... She use to tell us in the morning she could get anything we needed.

Winston Churchill

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Virginia Postrel

Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.

Orson Scott Card

The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

Sathya Baba

Women are the makers of the home,the nation and the world. You are the mothers who shape the generation.

John Rother

We just wish the same kind of self-restraint could be true for the makers of brand-name drugs.

John Fitzgibbon

They are a money maker and they are profitable.

Stephanie Rollings

There will have to be policy makers in the room. These are serious discussions.

Eva Zeisel

I am a maker of useful things.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Blaise Pascal

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

Doug Liman

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

John Elway

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

Langhorne Slim

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

Jonathan Pulik

The process at this point is being re-examined on how we will proceed, but it will move forward. The project is still in the planning stages.

David Duval

But you know, I'm just not a quitter.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Janis Joplin

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Bryant H. McGill

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Bill Cunningham

We're hard-core solar people. We don't quit that easy.

Audrey Meadows

What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

Arthur Ransome

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been

Antony Sher

I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.

Denis Leary

If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.

Deepa Mehta

Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.

Deborah Kerr

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

Deborah Harkness

Sorry, we've got ghosts.

Deb Caletti

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

Deb Caletti

The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist.’)