Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Djuna Barnes

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Dave Gorman

I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Barbara Deming

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

Elizabeth Bowen

When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood orseason of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.

Deepak Chopra

If you could live in the moment, you would see the flavor of eternity and when you metabolize the experience of eternity, your body doesn't age.

Ram Dass

The next message you need is always right where you are.

Dale Carnegie

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.

Action Bronson

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

Alicia Keys

The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.

Amy Sedaris

I live in the moment.

Oprah Winfrey

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

Jason Calacanis

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Dick Vermeil

My hobby is my work. I love it so much, it is not work.

Arthur D. Levinson

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

F. Schumacher

I have enough hobbies to keep me busy. It's possible that I will look for a new sport -- like, perhaps, horse riding.

Robert Anderson

We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.

Mark Kelly

Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like going camping with my kids. I have two daughters; they're 7 and 10 years old.

Al Yankovic

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

David A. Bednar

Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

Anne Stevenson

A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts.