Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells ...

Mickey Levy

Regardless of who is president, it looks like they will not have a mandate.

David Buckner

Some of New Orleans looks beautiful--and the other half--there's a lot of work ahead. If theres a time estimate, I'd say probably about 2 to 5 years before everything is back to normal,

E. Hicks

Overall it was a pretty bearish report. It looks like the refineries are starting to come back.

E. Hicks

Overall it was a pretty bearish report, ... It looks like the refineries are starting to come back.

Danny Sullivan

Overall it looks interesting but I don't know if they have anything that the other people couldn't match if they are lacking,

Michael Wuertz

Right now, the catcher's glove looks about as small as it's going to get. I don't think it can get any smaller.

Jack Lengyel

Red, he looks just like you. He stands like you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I couldn't look at you and breath at the same time.

Barry Manilow

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.

Edward Abbey

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

John Brain

We didn't play very well. It was an ugly win but we'll take the points.

Fred Taylor

You have to be concerned. We've been winning some ugly ones, but they count.

Darrell Royal

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

Dante Alighieri

You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.

Al Groh

Those kinks usually have an ugly way of only materializing during the games.

Alice Childress

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Alexander McQueen

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

Donald Trump

We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble. And we better be awfully careful.