Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bennett

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and simple.

Chick Corea

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

David Krumholtz

Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

Dave Barry

Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he’d marooned her.

Dave Barry

Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff.

David Suchet

I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any more. We don't mention names. Yes, it's obvious by inference. But we don't mention names and the film is not up to point fingers at Royalty.

Catherynne M. Valente

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Catherynne M. Valente

Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!

Cheryl Strayed

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

B. Carroll Reece

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Brian Greene

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

Ben Okri

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

Abdullah Ocalan

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

Noam Chomsky

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Greg Boyle

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Marcelo Porto

Today we initially hoped that stocks would rise and erase yesterday's losses, but Wall Street triggered a new wave of profit-taking.

Chris Brown

You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Aimee Bender

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

David Hockney

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Antonin Artaud

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Diego Maradona

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Dick Cavett

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

Cat Deeley

I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment.