Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tempestt Bledsoe

I love helping people put their homes in order.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Michael Chertoff

making provisions for people in nursing homes or hospitals to get them out so they are out of harm's way and don't need to be rescued.

Jack Campbell

There are the ones who have a lot of land and want to be annexed because they want the sewer to make the land more valuable and the lots smaller. Then there are the people with homes with working septic tanks that don't see why they should pay to hook into a sewer system they don't intend to use.

Michael Burgess

Nursing homes should be a last resort, and that's what a lot of this is moving toward.

Tom Morris

Getting people in homes is real important towards improving the quality of life in the parish.

John Ortberg

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

Hilaire Belloc

From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.

Carol Vorderman

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

Agnes Repplier

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Agnes Repplier

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

Agnes Repplier

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

Agnes Repplier

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Agnes Repplier

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

Charlotte Bronte

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

Charlie Chaplin

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

Charles Dickens

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Agnetha Faltskog

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Jane Austen

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Ashley Greene

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

Brian Blessed

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

Charlie Munger

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Bob Newhart

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Ed Begley, Jr.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

Carolina Herrera

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.

Charles Stross

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

Johnny Weir

To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.

Nick Woodman

My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty.

Laura Marano

I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

Coco Chanel

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

Scott Peterson

She was wearing her seatbelt but it wouldn't have made any difference, ... She was killed instantly.

Diana DeGarmo

If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.

Manolo Blahnik

I like women with style to wear my shoes.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Andrew Young

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

J. Taylor

There and back is $10 worth of gasoline.

Angelo Sorce

We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.

Bob Carr

We are ecstatic. It was worth the trip.

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When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.