Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Mary Shelley

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

Evelyn Waugh

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Mary Shelley

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Mary Shelley

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Mary Shelley

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Anthony Trollope

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Dean Inge

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Italo Calvino

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Steve Osburn

Mr. Rader does not see himself as a monster, ... He sees himself as a human being with a monster inside of him.

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Granth Sahib

My Lord and Master Himself has saved me completely; I am comforted by meditating on the Lord.

David Overstreet

I can tell him that if he messes up on a play, he can't hold it; he can't think about it. Being a DB, you have to have a short memory because the next play you may come in and get an interception or something. He can't hold that stuff to himself because if he does, it's going to have a snowball effect.

Tony Kelly

getting himself in some trouble! He was gangster!

Lance Reynolds

If a guy's a stud, then he's a stud when he comes home, provided he has enough time to get himself back in shape.

Martha Miles

I was so proud when I saw that. I thought, 'That's how it should be.' That kid the rest of his life will kick himself because he didn't make it.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

George H. W. Bush

make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

Kiki Vandeweghe

for working with us to make this possible so quickly.

Valentino Rossi

For sure, it's possible to win the championship. There's always more pressure than normal, but we try to win this race like we do in other races.

Michiel Huisman

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

Mahmoud Othman

If we'd had more time, it would have been possible to get Sunni participation. When Oct. 15 comes, many won't even have seen the constitution.

Pete Carroll

If I'm lucky, I can see 7-8 possible recruits at these meets.

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Pele

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Blake Mycoskie

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Amber Valletta

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Jason Ricci

Everything surrounds him. He's our leader. He's well-known and he's being heavily-recruited.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Whit Hartz

You're pretty much surrounded by sharp, poky things.

Samuel Schmid

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

Muhammad Iqbal

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

Frank Herbert

Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

Edward Abbey

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Derrick Brooks

I would give up one thousand yards to get a win.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Edward Fitzgerald

To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Elie Wiesel

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Andreas Gursky

A word is worth a thousand images.