Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

David Sedaris

At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

Alan Watts

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

Edmund Spenser

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

James Whistler

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Juvenal

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

Bill Watterson

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Alexei Navalny

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

Lupita Nyong'o

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

Janet Street-Porter

Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.

Alan Guth

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

Alan Guth

The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science -- everything can be created from nothing...it is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Alan Greenspan

The free lunch has still to be invented.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

Bruce Barton

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.

Charles Dickens

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

David Sedaris

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."

Janet Frame

[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

Alan Moore

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Cherie Lunghi

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

Charles Lamb

The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.