Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Moody

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

Charles Krauthammer

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

Dean Acheson

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Bear Grylls

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

Earl Long

But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

Demetri Martin

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

Elizabeth Warren

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

Alan Watts

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

Billy Gibbons

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Edith Sitwell

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

Audrina Patridge

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

Benjamin Watson

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.

Diane Ackerman

Our skin is what stands between us and the world.

Demi Lovato

I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin.

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

James Lovegrove

The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

David Gerrold

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Helen Vendler

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Henri Matisse

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.