Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Leakey

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

J. Perelman

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring

Jonathan Schwartz

Most of us are only tuned in to distant stations where all kinds of things are happening to other people. We listen through the static to their heartbreaks as if we were in some well-protected receiving chamber.

David Newman

I encountered a lot of people who were very distant and uncommunicative and misleading and self-contradictory. On the other hand, I did find doctors who were extraordinary and remarkable.

Craig Curry

If that national championship happens, I'm pretty positive that I'll just be a distant memory. God knows I pray for it all the time.

Barry Gibb

Success like we have now was just a very distant dream in 1971.

Gregory Benford

'Star Trek''s insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places.

John Fitzgerald

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Eric Mason

had a distant and past friendship, but that was more than a year ago.

Pete Vasil

Our motto has been defend, rebound, and run. We did well limiting them to one and done.

Dan Gallagher

We are not limiting our options until this comes back before you,

Chris Lofton

They just weren't going in today, you know? Teams are playing a lot more physical and limiting my touches and trying to make me do stuff I don't want to do.

Scott Olsen

Quitting is a process. It's gradual. I'm limiting it to six a day after meals, before you go to bed, whenever you get up.

Mike Stoops

Being better is what we have to look at. Are we better with limiting him or going with our package with Richard?

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Jake Long

I was just tested. Someone was just testing me, and I think I passed all the tests.

Jon Banner

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Evelyn Glennie

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound.

Harley Lee

Wind will not save the planet but it is a solution.

Charles Spurgeon

Remember that thought is speech before God.

Bill Peterson

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Dennis Miller

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Edward Leigh

It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?

Barbara Tuchman

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

Bela Lugosi

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Anthony Trollope

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Harry Friedman

We know our visitors like to see us in different cities,

Jack Kelly

Visitors may want (the vendors), but it's not all about the visitors.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Jeremy Paxman

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?

Henry Rollins

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

Charles Spurgeon

I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

David Icke

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

Denis Waitley

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

Deborah Harkness

Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.

Edgar Lee Masters

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

Barbara Tuchman

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

Avril Lavigne

Face tomorrow tomorrow's not yesterday

Bill O'Reilly

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

Carl Sandburg

Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.