Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garrison Keillor

May his soul be forever tormented by fire - And his bones be dug up by dogs - And dragged through the streets of Minneapolis

Democritus

In a shared fish, there are no bones.

Mark Stewart

I feel sad for those that have been buried on that land, knowing their bones will be underwater,

Kate Forsyth

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

Winston Churchill

I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.

Ben Nicholson

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

Quentin Williams

Some asteroids look like small planets, not very disturbed, and at the other end of the spectrum are ones that look like iron-rich dog bones in space.

Gabriela Mistral

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Bee Wilson

A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.

Eileen collins

Looks like I might have some cleaning up to do when I get home.

Tom Aldrich

Many of these remaining process locations likely will require demolition in order to meet the expected cleaning criteria.

Liu Peng

Securing a clean National Games is the most important factor of a successful Games, ... We will do more tests before and during the Games, and we will conduct tests on Human Growth Hormone (HGH) for the first time in our history of National Games.

Hildegarde Heymann

Soft drinks are very acidic. When I was a child, I remember my parents using Coke to clean out a radiator.

Steve Smith

One week you're playing, and the next one team is cleaning out lockers and going home.

Sam Worthington

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

Javier Solana

Now what we want to do is be able to attack, from the airplanes, their headquarters, their commanders which are underground so that we can stop the tremendous ethnic cleansing which is now taking place on the ground,

Margaret Cobb

Now we're going to use the time to clean up the fit and finish of the product and ensure the maximum compatibility and reliability between now and our final release.

Ron Wyden

Now, the supposed justifications for restart have completely evaporated and the funds that are being wasted will go where they have long belonged: into cleaning up the environment that adjoins our lifeblood, the Columbia River, ... After years of indecision, the people of the Pacific Northwest deserve to have the money used to clean up the contamination at Hanford rather than on some wild good chase.

Richie Adubato

We're not dead yet, ... The fat lady hasn't sung yet. She was spraying her throat there for a while but she didn't sing. We still have a chance.

John Gibbons

We're not dead yet, but we're tired. In the end if we hang in there, it's because of the way they go about their business. If we don't it's because we're not good enough, yet. But it won't be because of lack of effort or lack of preparation or lack of heart.

Bill White

Like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, it stinks to high heaven,

Walter Raleigh

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

Julie Morgenstern

Leaving work a half-hour early makes you work as if you're on a deadline all the time.

Helmut Kohl

So many dead ... It's a tragedy, ... Excuse me, but I must return home right away.

Irish Blessings

May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead

Granth Sahib

Meditate on your Dear Lord, and be dead to the world; renounce your love of duality

Gregory Campbell

One man with 100 loyal friends is a lot stronger than one man with 1000 dead enemies, but only the former knows it, and only the latter cares.

Spanish Proverb

Life without a friend is like death without a witness

Lewis Morris

Life is act, and not to do is death

John Heywood

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low

Michael Schiavo

Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

Ann Rice

Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no reason for any of it, does there? But what if I could give it back to you. Pluck out the pain, and give you another life, one you could never imagine, and it would be for all time. And sickness and death could never touch you again. Don't be afraid, I'm going to give you the choice, I, never, had.

Buddha

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Thomas Watson

Let them fear death who do not fear sin

Mark Twain

Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

Jon Ward

So far, there hasn't been that massive death or disease that were predicted.

Toney Baker

My elbow was down. I saw the (video board), but at first I did (think he was in).

Toney Baker

My elbow was down, after I saw the (replay), but at first I (thought I scored).

Robert Fick

My elbow feels great. I have a little soreness from just throwing. It's natural.

Source Unknown

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Octavio Dotel

I worked on my elbow and I learned how to play poker. That was all I did. I didn't want to watch games on television because it was too painful. I missed pitching.

Jeff Adrien

I don't even really remember what happened. I just put my elbow back and I guess I hit him. It wasn't intentional. I was just playing hard.

When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.

Rick Savage

You know, even though you have a limb severed, the signals keep running down the nerves so I still get an itch on my elbow or whatever.

Kim Nelson

Unfortunately with this stuff, it's not just elbow grease.

Debbie Pace

Madison never incorporated and didn't get its own government. We don't want to get lost in the shuffle.

Bruce Jones

Many of our people have lost their homes.

Frank Oz

Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.

Meg Mallon

My first Solheim was when we lost at Dalmahoy (in Scotland) in 1992,

Habibul Bashar

Obviously we will try to win the match...no matter we have lost the first two matches.

Richard Duncan

No one realized how devastating this was going to be, ... Many of these people have lost everything.

Derrick Max

One way or another, everyone's lost sight of why we're here.

Neil LeBlanc

Obviously that day we lost some delegates, but we have also got more from other areas. We've moved on from there because we have to stay focused.

Dean Barker

Obviously it's very disappointing to have lost that race but we can take a lot of positives out of it still,

Chris Cleave

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

Aimee Bender

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Edith Sitwell

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

Edith Wharton

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Unknown

To our wives and lovers - may they never meet!

Axl Rose

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Bradley Cooper

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

Charles Bukowski

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

John Reid

Madonna has nailed it with this record and we are rolling it out very big indeed.

Maripol

Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.

Chris Crutcher

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Chris Crutcher

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.

Denis Diderot

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Edgar Allan Poe

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Edgar Allan Poe

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

Edgar Allan Poe

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

Ben Jonson

Success hath made me wanton.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Kate Upton

Listen: I like my bikinis very small, and I also like, uh, nude-colored bikinis because people double-take - they think I'm naked on the beach.

Diana Gabaldon

I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser

Charlotte Rampling

When I take on something , I take the whole thing on.It's not even a question of separating "Oh, am I going to be naked" I go with my whole person.

Leonor Varela

When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.

Jennifer Lawrence

Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.

Bob Dylan

A poem is a naked person.

Bob Dylan

The naked truth is still taboo.

Claire Forlani

If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.

Bat for Lashes

I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Denise Marshall

I wish I could have picked all of them.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Don Ho

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

Garrett Jones

When the winds picked up, they'd go right through you.

Joan Rodgers

We still don't know how they picked our house, but it was very scary.

Joe Condit

We haven't picked out any specific properties yet. This process is just beginning. It probably will take a year to sort out which ones we want to buy.

Doug Hawkins

We don't have pitchers to strike out 10, so we have to rely on our defense. They picked us up today.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

Anthony Williams

Sean Kelley's good, but our O-line is where it is. Without that line, Sean Kelley's stuck in the backfield.

Anthony Williams

Sean Kelley's good, but our O-line is where it is, ... Without that line, Sean Kelley's stuck in the backfield.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Humberto Cota

More tough luck, man. For Sean and for us. It's a big blow.

Gerald Anderson

Now our team is back to where we want it to be. We should have success like we were having at the start of the season when we were all healthy.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

Dean Young

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Kate Winslet

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, without the True Name, all this paraphernalia shall disappear.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

William Kidd

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

Yani Tseng

I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

Abraham Lincoln

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Ellen G. White

The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.

L.A. Reid

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

Bret Easton Ellis

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Jordan Foreman

I mean, it won't really sink in for a while.

Michael Strahan

They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

J. Taylor

It was sentimental and exciting. It was starting to sink in. I wanted to slow things down a bit.

Kirsten Prout

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

Ivan Turgenev

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Lorrie Moore

It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Johannes Tauler

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Chris Elliott

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

Chris Farley

I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Evans

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal.

Charles Spurgeon

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

Charles Spurgeon

You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

Dick Wolf

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Dick Van Dyke

They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.

Diane Keaton

Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in.

Diane Keaton

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

Jesper Parnevik

One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast.

Dennis Prager

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

Edward Abbey

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Lars Mikkelsen

I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Alexander Siddig

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

Ann Strother

To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Elin Hilderbrand

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

David J. C. MacKay

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.

William Shakespeare

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

Ron Zarrella

We could even wind up No. 2 in July.

A. J. McLean

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.