Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Alan Watts

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Akshay Kumar

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

Chris Cooper

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

Chogyam Trungpa

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

Chita Rivera

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

Alex Rodriguez

We know he's got a very fine arm, and he throws 96-97 and throws all his body at you. I took some good swings, he challenged me, and you tip your cap.

Diane Wakoski

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Yan Xiaohong

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

David Bositis

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

Flula Borg

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Ross Siragusa

The tomato portion of it still is pretty negligible.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Jim Gibbons

very devastating to communities with a small tax base.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Anton Chekhov

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.