Mets Quotes - Page 36

• Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

  Belle de Jour

  Order, Sometimes, Wonder

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• I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.

  Amy Sedaris

  Men, Shoes, Feet

  "Strangers with Candy". www.imdb.com. 1999 - 2000.

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• Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

  Billy Eckstine

  Soul, Chicago, Bud

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• In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical sources of X-rays. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Couple, Powerful, Paris

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• If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

  Deborah Kerr

  Men, Single Life, Lucky

  "- That Was One Classy Dame" by Alex, www.glamour.com. October 19, 2007.

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• I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Stay Strong, New York, Player

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• I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.

  Jo Brand

  Years, Laughing, Trying

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• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mean, Autumn

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• I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere!

  Johnny Thunders

  New York, Home, Journey

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• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  Ed O'Neill

  New York, Cities, People

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• That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Fighting, May

  'The Grandmother' (1859) st. 8

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• In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

  Pia Zadora

  Husband, Past, Years

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• Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

  James F. Bell, III

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

  Maureen Forrester

  Simple, People, World

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• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, Virginia

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• From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

  Margot Asquith

  War, Men, Snakes

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

  Jackie French

  Dancing, Song And Dance

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• I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Writing, People, Tragedy

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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• A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all, sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life.

  Charles Eley

  Long, Tree, Feelings

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• Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

  James F. Bell, III

  Motivational, Struggle, Opportunity

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• The truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours of trainig per day. Many people would probably be surprised if they met me.

  Franziska van Almsick

  Truth, Thinking, Self

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• In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

  Wallace Mercer

  Soccer, Football, Scotland

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• Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece.

  Annabel Croft

  Past, Tennis, Three

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• It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.

  Henri Nouwen

  Choices, Chance

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• As soon as we fall in love and we realise we've met the one the rest of our lives can't come soon enough. It's not like you're in a rush to get to the finish line, you're in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again.

  Johnny Depp

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Soon Enough

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