Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

Carlos Castaneda

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

Alan Thicke

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

Alan Light

A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

Brian Cox

Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

Brian Cox

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

Bret Michaels

I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.

Bret Easton Ellis

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

Brandi Carlile

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

Carol Leifer

I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.

Carol Shields

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Carol Shields

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Carlos Queiroz

Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.

Reg Pullen

We have a solar-powered light in there so that at night, in Bandon, you can see it blinking. But it's just for aesthetics.

Lauren Brightwell

Whenever you get any new skill you really want to use it. I think he should lighten up a little.

Richard Dormer

When you see a school bus, you got to think children. Even if the lights are not flashing, you got to slow down.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Charlotte Bronte

The shadows are as important as the light.

C. S. Lewis

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Jane Austen

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Chinua Achebe

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Chinua Achebe

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Cheryl Strayed

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Chanakya

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Charlaine Harris

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.