Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Unknown

May the most you wish for be the least you get.

Goran Ivanisevic

Of course, I really wish I was out there playing,

Mick Cronin

Obviously, I wish we could have had him. Things happen. What are you going to do?

Edsger Dijkstra

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

Eddie Vedder

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

Eddie Vedder

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down....

Deepak Chopra

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Deepak Chopra

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

Dave Mustaine

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

David Icke

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Bong Joon-ho

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.

Adelaide Kane

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

Alison Krauss

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

Cory Booker

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Adam Lambert

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.

Anne Sweeney

I never looked at a title and said, I want that.