Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Alan King

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.

Zell Miller

when I counted the candles on my birthday cake and cringed.

Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Brandon Boyd

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Diane von Furstenberg

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

David Sedaris

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

Dave Barry

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Buddy Valastro

You can't arrest me. I'm the Cake Boss,

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

Jane Asher

I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.

Jane Asher

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

Jamie Oliver

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

Brian Greene

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

Barbara Kingsolver

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Laurie Colwin

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

Bill Murray

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

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.

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.

Bobby Lee

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Wilferd Peterson

While there is life there is hope, has deeper meaning in reverse. While there is hope there is life. Hope comes first, life follows. Hope gives power to life. Hope rouses life to continue to expand, to grow, to reach out, to go on. Hope sees a light where there isn't any. Hope lights candles in millions of despairing hearts. Where would I be without hope?

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

King Tuff

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

Keith Richard

There is no clear plan until the music is telling you what to do. It yelled at us, 'Do not overproduce me. Do not put the icing and the marzipan and the candles on.'

John Scalzi

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Johnny Weir

I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I'm used to.

Libba Bray

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Kim Cattrall

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

Karen Maitland

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

Lisa Therrell

We are processing the overnight permit applications right now, and I haven't counted how many applications but it looks like we've got a thousand.

Bobby Butler

I was sweating it out when they counted off this morning,

Joe Tiller

But we didn't do it. On the drive that counted the most.

Wavell Hinds

More often than not you need personalities in the team to standout and be counted to ensure that we pull off match winning performances.

Joyce Foreman

Obviously, '97 sticks out. And winning the (Southeastern Conference) tournament in 2000 when we just had an up and down year ... but found ways to win when it really counted sticks out.