Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Clive Davis

Unplugged debuting at number one is yet another amazing milestone achievement for Alicia, ... That makes it three in a row -- three out of three. You just can't beat that! What makes it extra special is the live format of Unplugged for the true musician -- the public really has to be passionate about the artist and the music to buy the album in these numbers.

Caleb Dolan

We are pretty intent on opening more campuses in North Carolina because the achievement gap is so great, whether you are talking about the difference between blacks and whites or the difference between eastern North Carolina and Chapel Hill.

Alexis Strauss

We are pleased to celebrate this achievement with the Navajo Nation. We'll continue to work together to protect and restore vital water resources on tribal land.

Chad Latch

There are some high-caliber teams here and placing anywhere in the top six is a great accomplishment. Matt Stephenson wrestled really well and was in every match. It's a good point in the season for Matt to realize that he can wrestle well at a tournament like this.

Samuel Smiles

''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Michael Gove

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Heather Watts

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

Robert Lacey

Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II.

Cate Blanchett

I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.

Teresa Medeiros

Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.

Charles Nelson Reilly

My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

Sarah Addison Allen

I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

Howard Shore

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

Kelly Butler

I have a sister who is Elizabeth. If my sister was waiting in traffic, she wouldn't say she waited for 40 minutes; she would say she waited for 42 minutes. I modeled Elizabeth after her.

Cindy Emfinger

I felt pretty good even when she got past Savannah because Michelle and Elizabeth and (goalie) were where they were supposed to be. (Roach) just made a nice play.

Ed Smart

Keep your eyes open for her. We still feel as strongly as ever that Elizabeth is out there, that she is still waiting for us to find her.

Charlaine Harris

He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

Rich Zurek

Now with the new images, we're able to watch when the frost comes and goes and we can see that dunes are moving today and aren't just relics from times past.

Tim Krause

We shouldn't have a lot of frost in the ground so it may be a short period of time, may be only three weeks.

Paul Simon

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

Loren Eiseley

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

Tom Rathbun

The supervisors and FROST requested a meeting with us when we neared the end of the process.

James Dickey

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

Louisa May Alcott

Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

Douglas Hamilton

A good frost is one of the things that really kicks it off,

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.

Charles Spurgeon

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

Alan Greenspan

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

David R. Brower

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

Catherine Crier

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

William Shakespeare

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

Beware the ides of March.

William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Kurt Vonnegut

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Rachel Platten

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Billy Collins

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

William Shakespeare

But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love.

John Fowles

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

Bernard Hinault

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

Benjamin Franklin

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

Carl Jung

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

C. S. Lewis

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

Jose Marti

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

Jean Racine

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

Joe Horn

When I was walking out of their stadium, (the fans) were like, 'Joe, are we rivals now?' I was like, 'You got it.'

Kenneth Tynan

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

Grace Kelly

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

Harland Braun

We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out he didn't do it.

Kenneth Branagh

I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Daryl Sabara

I don't know why there hasn't been a 'Spy Kids' cartoon. You have to bring that up to Robert Rodriguez and see what he has to say. That would be an interesting thing to do with this series.

Maggie Smith

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.

David Edwards

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

Anupam Kher

There are many brilliant actors, including our own Dilip Kumar, but Robert de Niro is something else.

Robert B. Parker

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Ludivine Sagnier

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Errol Morris

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Ferran Adria

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.