Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

Where the statue stood/ Of Newton with his prism and silent face,/ The marble index of a mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

Emile Galle

Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?

Susan Bennett

We have tourists who actually take pictures of the marble sidewalk. There are not many of them left.

William Butler Yeats

See how the sacred old flamingoes come,Painting with shadow all the marble steps:Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perchesWithin the temple, devious walking, madeTo wander by their melancholy minds.

Budd Schulberg

I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,

Horace

Brighter than Parian marble.

Melina Mercouri

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

John Rhys-Davies

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Jeff Burton

We're going 200 mph. We're not thinking about being safe or we wouldn't be going 200 miles an hour.

Rose George

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters.

Paul Levitz

Most of us never got more than 100 miles from our houses. That the school pulled this together is astounding.

Bruce Robinson

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

Jason Biggs

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

Mike Heimerdinger

We're about a million miles away after (Monday) night.

Blaise Pascal

they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

Charles Bronson

like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Jason Taylor

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

C. S. Lewis

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Bruce Hoffman

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Siv Meisingseth

We have no idea how long the strike will last.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Ian Johnson

I will be encouraging them to vote yes. It is important we have a strong strike vote.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.