Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Charlie Chaplin

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Charles Caleb Colton

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Charles Spurgeon

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

David Dinkins

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

David Brooks

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

Barry Bonds

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Barry Bonds

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

Barry Bonds

I like to be against the odds.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

Beth Moore

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

Billy Rose

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

Brendan Myers

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not worship.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Claes Oldenburg

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

Isaac Hayes

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

Erasmus Darwin

With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, And watches, as it moves, the orb of day.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.