Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.

Charles Dickens

"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

Charles Dickens

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea...

Charles Spurgeon

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

David Tennant

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

Catherynne M. Valente

We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.

Caryl Churchill

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

Casey Stengel

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

Carl Honore

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

Donald Trump

You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.

Luciano Pavarotti

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

Jerry Kramer

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

Martina Navratilova

I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

Mark Knopfler

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

John Waters

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

Michael Caine

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

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.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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

Beth Moore

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

Brendan Myers

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Billy Collins

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.

Ann Voskamp

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

Claes Oldenburg

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

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.