Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Djuna Barnes

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Dave Gorman

I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Dave Barry

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.

Dave Barry

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

Dave Barry

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Verron Haynes

We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.

Lily Nicksay

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

Edward Heath

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Elizabeth Bishop

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Jeffrey Joerres

We've got the spinnaker up, but the sail is sort of flapping at the moment,

Priscilla Feral

When Murkowski sailed into office, everything went to hell.

Carlos Beltran

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

Erwin McManus

We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

Johnny Ramone

You can't change music by yourself.

Randy Pausch

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

Irina Slutskaya

That's life and you can't change anything, you know.

Sebastian Vettel

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen

Stephen King

A person can't change all at once.