Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Nelson Page

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.

Ed Smith

It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

John Jakes

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

Lewis Grizzard

I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Clifton Fadiman

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before.

Dorothea Brande

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Terry Goodkind

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

Marge Piercy

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

Marilyn Ferguson

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Carol Moseley Braun

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Carol Vorderman

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Carl Andre

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

C. S. Lewis

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

C. S. Lewis

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

Agnes Varda

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

Charlie Dent

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

Charles de Lint

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Charles de Lint

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

Hoshyar Zebari

We have presented our visions and our priorities to you. Now it's your turn to look at those elements and those priorities to see where you can help,

Todrick Hall

I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Tiffani Thiessen

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.

Charles Eastman

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Mark Nation

When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot.

Umberto Eco

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Ernst Toller

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Jon Stewart

Wow. I can't wait till later when we see Oscar's salute to montages.

Claire Tomalin

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

Bill Nighy

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

Tom Stoppard

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

James E. Faust

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

Albert Jones

When I got there he was laying on the ground. He was hollering and waving his arms.

Dennis Miller

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks...

Kevin Hall

There is not $150 million laying on the table.

John Scully

The picture was laying on his stomach when he died.

Ted Astolfi

We're laying it out today to say this is where we want to get to.

Juanna Graham

He was laying around a lot. He didn't want to play, he didn't want to eat. He was throwing up.

Marc Guggenheim

We've enjoyed laying the foundation for 'The Flash' series.

George Savile

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Moliere

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Susan Davis

I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high.

James Richardson

Happiness is the readiness to be happy.