Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.

C. S. Lewis

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

C. S. Lewis

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

C. S. Lewis

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.

C. S. Lewis

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

C. S. Lewis

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Andre Agassi

When you're young, you can sleep in till 12,

Agnes Repplier

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

Charlotte Bronte

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

Darien Mickens

When he got to the door on the far end, he walked in the door and hit the wall and fell on the ground. I thought he was just going into shock, and I was trying to calm him down.

Brian Roper

We were too rushed in the first half and in the third we calmed down. We executed better.

Dylan Hunter

We have a young team and as veterans, we have to calm everyone down.

Johnson Honimae

There is a lot of fear. People are just hoping the military will calm things down.

Ariel Sharon

There is no doubt that the Palestinians are making efforts for the withdrawal to take place in a calm fashion,

Robbie Earl

We're just trying to mature. We've got a lot of freshmen who really don't know what to expect. The coaches are just trying to calm us down and get us on the right track, but jitters are great. That's why you play this game, to have those jitters and have that opportunity to be successful.

Nick Young

We're just trying to calm down, listen to (Floyd) and play our game like we've been playing in getting victories.

Danny Sullivan

This will probably calm some of this thing down.

Channing Pollock

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed

Bruce Chatwin

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

Ben Bernanke

The Fed is totally open.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

David Gerrold

Incompetency fed on itself.

Chuck Grassley

The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.

Marianne Faithfull

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

Paul Krugman

There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation.

Paul Krugman

But where will the Fed find another bubble?

Richard Dawkins

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.