Famous Quotes & Sayings

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When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?

Charles Lyell

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

Larenz Tate

How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.

Karen Mills

I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most small businesses in this country. That's really powerful. I call it our bone structure.

Louise Leakey

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.

Laurie Halse Anderson

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.

Kerry Healey

Is Mitt Romney a bully? And the answer is, no... He does not have a vicious bone in his body.

Alanis Morissette

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Tyra Banks

The president of Victoria's Secret promised me a lifetime supply of Victoria's Secret products, even after I decided to leave the company. But once I left, he only let me have it for a year. So I have a bone to pick.

Reese Witherspoon

When he had a scene, we would stand like a set away and watch, and we were just cracking up. He would just sit funny. And stand funny. He was just so funny in everything he did.

Edmund Hillary

I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.

Ron Walters

where the population was predominantly white, where FEMA got cracking in a hurry.

Alex Gonzalez

When the sheriff came, that's when you really started noticing more of a difference. Ever since they started cracking down on everything, things got better.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.

Bill Toohey

The red, hooded sweatshirt might point to some direction some way investigators can go. It could also be the key to cracking the case.

Rich Cohen

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

Ali Fattah

The police are back to their old habits of cracking down on the Brotherhood.

Rob Brown

When we're on our 13th or 14th hour, we're dragging, but he's always ready. He's always cracking jokes. He wants to make sure everyone has a good time.

James Graf

We're right on the money right now, heading toward our encounter with Mars.

Desiderius Erasmus

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Bill Johnson

We owe the world an encounter with God

Bill Johnson

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

Judith Ivey

She encounters all these different men, ... in the Adirondacks to help her out (or) not to help her, and so on -- and they're all suspicious.

John Kessel

Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.

Kent Conrad

She starts off in a positive position with me because of these conversations we have had, ... She is a lovely person. Some people you encounter in life and you like them.

Ayn Rand

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Jim Parsons

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

Carol Shields

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

Carlos Castaneda

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

Carlos Castaneda

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

C. S. Lewis

I don't want to hold you hand!

Kenneth Jackson

We have to hand the torch to the next generation.

Allen Pritchett

We have to handle the road and crowd.

Howard Dean

We have needed a strong, steady hand in this party.

Aaron Tveit

I can clap with one hand.

Brandon Lincoln

We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.

Carl Andre

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

C. S. Lewis

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

C. S. Lewis

A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

C. S. Lewis

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

C. S. Lewis

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Chris Gratton

We have to get on our horse and start climbing. We have to make a push when we get back.

Abba Eban

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

Charles Caleb Colton

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Charles Caleb Colton

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Charles Eastman

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Charles Eastman

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Terry Anderson

There is no money to pay any ransom, ... These were three nonpolitical missionaries working in an Indian village when they were taken. This was a mistake.

Larry Brilliant

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

Richard Sheirer

Giuliani visited Indian Point and said, 'It's a reverse of Marion' high-security prison in upstate New York. It's as secure as Marion, but not in keeping people in but keeping people out.

Matt Will

No one is better situated than we are in Indiana to do this.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Unknown

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Ricky Gervais

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

Janet McTeer

We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

Alan Watts

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

Benjamin Graham

No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.

Bill Nighy

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

Charlie Munger

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Tyler Cowen

Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.

Charles Krauthammer

Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?