Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

Denise Levertov

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....

Benjamin Franklin

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

Alan Shearer

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

Bill Gross

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Tom Lenk

I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Timothy Ferriss

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.

Lord Byron

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think

William Shakespeare

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

Marshall Carlson

Mountain Dew and Pepsi have been longtime supporters of our sport. We're excited to welcome Mountain Dew to the team and look forward to this extension of our wonderful relationship with Pepsi-Cola.

Lord Byron

A better farmer ne'er brushed dew from lawn, / A worse king never left a realm undone!

Leon MacDonald

Dunedin will be wet from the dew and a lot of tactical kicks will be seen on Saturday night.

Lauren Oliver

Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too; perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair.

James Otis

Dew depends not on Parliament.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

Meg Rosoff

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.

Nelson Peltz

After Cadbury, the candy company, separated from Dr. Pepper, the soft drinks maker, Cadbury was able to substantially lower its debt load. The profits of Cadbury, the candy company, zoomed.

Dave DeCecco

Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it.

Marcus Aurelius

It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next morning

John Czwartacki

It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands.

Troian Bellisario

My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I loved making drinks because I got to be like a mad scientist.

Robin Williams

I still think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that she never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

John McCarthy

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick

Charles Caleb Colton

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

Alan Parsons

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

Al Sharpton

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

Akshay Kumar

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

Chris Bauer

I'm the kind of guy who would say, "Yeah, I'll do that!," and then, when it came down to it, I would be absolutely petrified. Those days have passed me by, but I would do it. If it meant that I was in a scene naked with a woman, or anybody romantic, I'd be into it.

Chip Kelly

Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

Marty Hurney

We know what Todd can do and we want to look at the guys we have here. We told Todd it is not necessary for him to come to camp.

Glenn Thiel

We know what have to do. We needed this week to rest our guys up.

Isaiah Thomas

We know how to lift each other when we need it. I know those guys have my back when I need it. We trust each other.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Craig Smith

We know what to do and what not to do because of last year. That's why we're in this position right now.

Bruce McMiller

We know we made a lot of progress last year, but there is still a lot out there.

Tony Russa

We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Edward Hoagland

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller....

Edward Hoagland

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

Bear Grylls

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Bear Grylls

I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Charles Spurgeon

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Charles Spurgeon

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

Alan Greenspan

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

Alan Bennett

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Diana Vreeland

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,

Dick Van Dyke

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

Charles M. Schulz

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

Johnny Bench

I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.

Anne Bishop

Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.

Dan Shechtman

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

Saxby Chambliss

There's always somebody who wants to take a shot at the peanut program,

Gwen Stefani

I`m like a peanut butter sandwich.

Frank Zappa

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

Bob Odenkirk

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Deb Caletti

Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Charlie Daniels

What this world needs is a few more Rednecks

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

David Allan Coe

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

David Koechner

I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it.

Bob Odenkirk

You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

Eddie Izzard

Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!

Daymond John

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

Derek Jarman

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.

Bela Lugosi

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Alber Elbaz

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

Chris O'Dowd

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

Brad Sherman

In a big murder trial, the sandwich is important.

Jim Butcher

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

Shane Battier

Sometimes you've got to eat a turd sandwich; makes the ribeye taste better next time.

Patrick Rothfuss

Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

Hubert H. Humphrey

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.