Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Hacker

When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.

Ogden Nash

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Ogden Nash

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

Eugene Field

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

John Erskine

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

John Erskine

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

John Erskine

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

Muriel Rukeyser

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

Marianne Moore

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Shawn Nelson

She had a rhythm look and knocked it down.

Ken Rhoden

She was one of our main contributors and knocked in the winning run in the state championship game.

Alex Johnson

Like all the wind was knocked out of you.

A. Johnson

(Luca) wasn't that sharp, especially after he got the wind knocked out of him. We were able to get into their bullpen, which is really important in the third (game of the series).

Clifton Lee

I was relaxed, went through my routine and knocked them down. I wanted them to keep fouling me.

Nick Vitucci

Maybe this is good. It knocked us down a bit. Maybe we're back to reality a bit.

Patrick Sparks

Maybe it was a little deep, but I knocked it down.

Larry Coker

From my understanding, they were knocked unconscious with a helmet.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Jase Robertson

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

Edmund Hillary

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Edward Ruscha

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

John Walls

She is very versatile and moves well. She was tough to stop.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Rob Gronkowski

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Steve Evans

If this moves forward, you'll see a reigniting of the water wars like you wouldn't believe.

Christine McVie

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Floyd Skloot

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Drake Bell

I have a dog named Steve that lives at the studio.

Frances Townsend

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Cheryl Hayashi

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Stanley Hauerwas

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Andy Williams

I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Buddy Bell

Woody wasn't throwing at him. But, quite frankly, Doug did what he had to do to keep things from escalating.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Leo Burnett

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Moises Alou

When things are like this, I swear to you, you play better as a team.

Dane Cook

When you swear to God, its true ... right now God is watching and saying, this is true.

Harry Potter

I solemnly swear I am up to no good.

Madonna Ciccone

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

J. D. Salinger

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

Eugenia Blizzard

All her friends swear to me she didn't know him.

Jennifer Lopez

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Irene Dunne

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Larenz Tate

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.