Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.

C. S. Lewis

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

C. S. Lewis

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

C. S. Lewis

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.

C. S. Lewis

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

C. S. Lewis

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Andre Agassi

When you're young, you can sleep in till 12,

Agnes Repplier

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

Charlotte Bronte

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

Agnetha Faltskog

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Mark Hatfield

The reality is, in most airports you don't have the luxury of that much space.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Charles Lamb

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

Brian K. Vaughan

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

Brad Pitt

I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be--cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world,.

Juvenal

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Calvin Trillin

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

Bob Dylan

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

Sherman Alexie

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

Michael Giles

I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

Robert Vaughn

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

Richard Bach

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

Roger Moore

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.