Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

Flea

Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.

David Simmons

We serve ice cream and frozen yogurt and hot dogs and chili dogs. We also have sugar-free ice cream.

Chad Smith

I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock.

Chad Smith

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.

Keith Belling

We have 11 great potato flavors, and customers have been clamoring for tortilla. For over a year, we worked to develop the four flavors of tortilla popchips: chili limon, nacho cheese, ranch and salsa. They're made with traditional stoneground masa, are gluten-free, and have less than half the fat of other chips.

Janet Fitch

My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.

Benjamin Franklin

Rain or Snow, / To Chili go, / You'll find it so,/ For ought we know./Time will show.

Eddy Cue

This is an incredible offering for fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We've put together a package that's unrivaled in the music industry for launching a new album, exclusive videos and a concert tour.

Carlos Castaneda

A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable

Stephen Rehage

The production itself was really guerilla warfare. Any time we were missing something, we had to scavenger hunt or go out of town to find it. Simple things like FedEx deliveries are not real reliable right now in the city.

Darren Shan

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Dino Djalal

We are going to marshal all our resources to hunt the perpetrators; the people who are going to do this are seasoned.

Jase Robertson

The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

Mike Hayhurst

We're still struggling to get things right. We're still moving people around and still hunting for the right player at the right position.

Elliot Washington

We're still in the hunt for everything. I feel we can make a run. I feel we will make a run if we play the way we're capable, but it shouldn't be a matter of if.

Charles M. Schwab

The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

Betty Smith

Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.

Jane Fonda

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

Edsger Dijkstra

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Denise Morrison

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

Keira Knightley

I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.

Rita Johnson

Participants are able to come by and stuff money into a jar that will be provided at each booth, and the cook-off contestants are able to do anything they want to raise money, ... They can coerce people, they can go into the crowd, sell things or do anything they want to do to raise money.

George MacDonald Fraser

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

David Ogilvy

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

Joey King

It's very different working with all adults. I have a swear jar so that, if they have a potty mouth, I make them pay. That's what it's like being on set with adults.

Kip Thorne

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

Peter Stuyvesant

Powder and provisions failing, and no relief or reinforcement being expected, we were necessitated to come to terms with the enemy.

Linda Murphy

I just sprinkle shrimp with curry powder and sugar and broil them. Yum,

Michael Rigas

I've got the powder on my doorstep, now what do I do with it?

George Orwell

The object of powder is powder.

Hod Lipson

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Angelina Jolie

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Bernard Laporte

We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Laurie Graham

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

Josh Beekman

We don't get preferred housing, I wish that we did.

Greg Chappell

It did not remain confidential though I would have preferred it to have remained so. What else can I say at this stage?

David Stern

preferred that we do it as a group.

Steve Mills

It's not the preferred style for enterprise-class operation.

Martin Jacques

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

Richard Petty

They said, 'Well, it can be done, but we'll have to do it a different way (rather than purchasing the series).' So here we are.

Rodel Natividad

It's your temporary "wants" purchasing your unnecessary "needs".

Tom Mitchell

It's a wholesale review of the county's purchasing code.

Emily Oster

All's fair in love and purchasing.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Patrik Elias

Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Colin Angle

It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.