Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry Bradley

We are looking more and more like those Third World countries with a Grand Canyon between the haves and have-nots and a disappearing middle class.

Diane Keaton

Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

John Young

Most people I've told about this think it's great. They really want to latch on to a good cause, ... But some of them say, 'Why do you have to hike the Grand Canyon ?'

Chris Hillman

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

Evel Knievel

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

Stephen Jones

People wonder what happens in the winter (at boatyards). Some think nothing happens, but a lot of things happen in winter. You don't necessarily have to go to the Grand Canyon and all that hoo-ha (to see wildlife).... You've got the heron and osprey.

Don Baylor

If inequality is a gulley in other states, it is a deep canyon in Texas.

Harley Shaiken

There is more than one way out of this canyon they are in right now,

Don Marquis

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Nicky Byrne

There are some days when you just want to push Shane off his chair.

Teresa Heinz

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

Alice McDermott

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

Bruce Rinker

I have great respect and fondness for the friends, and I think that's reciprocal. I want everyone to know we're trying to respect that formal agreement.

Dan Buettner

The more things for which you develop a fondness the richer the life you live.

Mary C. Jones

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Joan Ark

With a view of Pike's Peak to the left and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the right, we really did have an idyllic upbringing in a post-card setting..

Susanne Bier

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

Brian Williams

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

Steve Martin

I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.

J. Tillman

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

Patricia Cornwell

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Mary Kay Ash

Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.