#rand

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#grand #grand slams #granted #i #i do

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#been #before #born #grand #had

I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#been #being #called #driving #father

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#embarrass #fuzzy #grandmother #hat #i

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#i #idiots #laws #made #me

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph. ↗

— George Saunders

#i #lot #novel #now #paragraph

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#humour #i #i think #ideas #kind

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#before #came #chef #cooked #end

The Romney-Ryan plan would replace the guarantee of Medicare with a voucher that wouldn't keep up with costs. Congressman Ryan says that he wants Medicare to be around for his grandkids. Well, if that's the case, he had better vote for Barack Obama! ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#barack #barack obama #better #case #congressman

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand. ↗

— Howard Schultz

#always #brand #building #creating #enduring