Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Sherman-Palladino

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

Iris Murdoch

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

John Maynard Smith

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.

Melissa Walker

Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way.

Napoleon Hill

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

Stewart Udall

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

Chris Licursi

Many women like to have their hair highlighted and sometimes use several different colors. We can do all of that.

Claudio Sanchez

Occasionally, I do get stopped somewhere because people have seen the video. Sometimes it'll surprise me. I'll have my hair under a beanie, hiding it, and I'll still get stopped. Which is really like, 'Whoa! You can't really see my face!' because I have a lot of hair.

Scott Coffey

Now they're saying to test these hairs even if they're not his that doesn't prove anything. But at the time the hairs were everything to the DA's case.

Bashar al-Assad

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

David Bowie

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

Dave Mustaine

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

David Nicholls

Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.

Helena Carter

I wish I could play puppets the rest of my life, ... You don't have to worry about hair and make-up. You're not trapped by your envelope.

Mitch Hedberg

I got my hair highlighted because I thought some strands were more important than others.

James Gray

I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

David Henrie

I'd like to spend a day in Jesus's life. That'd be the most insane thing ever. I would love to do that.

Peter Russell

We planned on stopping (subscriptions) on the Monday after opening weekend, ... But we shut it off on Aug. 23. We are at 62 percent. That's insane - it's unheard of for us.

J. J. Abrams

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

Chloe Sevigny

I take the subway because I don't like having someone else driving. It's hard for me to be in a cab, because the traffic makes me feel insane. On the subway you're getting there faster and it's easier.

Antonin Artaud

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

Cheryl Strayed

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

Charlie Sheen

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.