Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

Shannon Kleibrink

We struggled with our weight all game. The ice was perfect. I love the ice here. We've had two picks all tournament. Today we just didn't throw right.

Eartha Kitt

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Bear Grylls

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

Arne Glimcher

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

Dick Cavett

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Dennis Miller

If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

Bill Murray

We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it

J. J. Johnson

We have never been on the track this early. There are always six inches of ice out there.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Luke Nosek

If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.

Chanel Iman

When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

I was very fortunate, because I don't think many people get to spend time with their great-grandfathers. So, he passed away when I was 15, so I spent a lot of time with him. We lived together. He traveled a lot, but when he was here, we lived together.

Evangeline Lilly

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

Proverb Proverb

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Wendy Miller

She doesn't seem to have been the society type or one to flaunt her wealth, but she lived well.

Robert Owens

We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.

Tom Watson

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

Viktor Vekselberg

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

David Hockney

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

Carol Shields

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Diana Wynne Jones

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

Brendan Fehr

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

Daniel Handler

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Bridget Moynahan

There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

Andre Maurois

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Daphne Gottlieb

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

Cornel Wilde

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Bill Davoren

She has the potential to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest.

Robert Turner

We have just scratched the surface of our potential business.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Aubrey Edgmon

She's starting to realize the potential she has.

Jackie Parsley

She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she got on the floor, she wanted to prove too much to me.

Jesse Miltier

She's showing a lot of potential. It usually takes until they're about 3 years old for them to reach their potential, but she's there.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Charles Spurgeon

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Alan Watts

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Al Madrigal

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

David Graeber

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Cab Calloway

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.