Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Mehlman

What's interesting is you could have showed me an article about 20 years ago in The Washington Post that predicted that Ronald Reagan was a lame duck.

Chinua Achebe

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

Charles Baudelaire

and over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year;

Charles Rangel

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

William Shakespeare

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

Ashley Benson

I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.

Bill Walsh

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.

Charles Studd

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

Diablo Cody

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

Brian Posehn

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

When thou has truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament

Michael Bell

He had worked so well, ... and he walked home fine but when we got to the yard he was lame in his off-hind. It is not career- threatening but you have to wonder what would have happened if it had happened at full gallop in America. The horse was in great shape and he has done us proud.

He's already a lame duck, but it would be a minus for his ability to handle the LDP and parliament.

Eric Davis

Bush has not too much time to turn things around before he becomes an ever-lamer lame duck.

Michael Bell

He was in great form and walked home sound but then when we got him back to his box we found he was slightly lame on his off-hind so it has knocked the Breeders' Cup on the head, sadly.

He was sound enough but lame at the trot when we got him back. We scanned him yesterday and enough's enough for this season. We'll either fire him or leave it to Mother Nature.

Queen Latifah

I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right.

I think there is a shared belief we need to do something to improve education in the city, ... We can't just lament it anymore. We all have to take action.

Bethany Hamilton

Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.

Brittany Snow

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

Kumail Nanjiani

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

Gary Cole

So I had no concept that there was this whole culture of memos, supervisors, meetings, casual Fridays and lame birthday parties.

Ryan Key

She's the real deal, so it's not as lame as some other people. I hope at some point people will realize what's real and what's not real, and who's an artist and who's not, and who doesn't deserve to be.

She craved the spotlight. She enjoyed the attention. And that was probably her real reason for not testifying, not those lame excuses.

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal.

We've studied stuff that happened in other cities. The lame-duck factor is brutal. Houston was drawing 15,000-20,000 a game. We don't expect that to happen here, but I'd rather be in an inferior stadium (elsewhere) than lame duck in my own town.

Al Gore

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

Charles Kingsley

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

Benjamin Franklin

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

William Shakespeare

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul

Ellen Key

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.