Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.

Venus Williams

It was deathly windy! It was just swirling at random.

Benedict Wong

In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.

J. K. Rowling

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

Hermann Hesse

And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t

David Sedaris

I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

Larry Alexander

The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's happening here.

Deb Caletti

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Lester Holt

There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.

Charles Churchill

With various readings stored his empty skull, / Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Benito Mussolini

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

Carl Sandburg

Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.

Tomas Transtromer

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

Ann Voskamp

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

Ambrose Bierce

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

Quentin Blake

The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.

Teresa Smith

It's a reminder of a big, hateful lie.

Hillel Hillel

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.

Richard Brodhead

It's disgusting. Racism and its hateful language have no place in this community.

Homer

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

Marilyn Manson

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers

Thomas Hobbes

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

Leo Tolstoy

I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.

Alan Cooper

Form follows function straight to hell.

Ben Stiller

What the hell am I doing with my life?

Edmund White

Hell is God's Absence.

Diana Vreeland

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

Diana Vreeland

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

Billy Sunday

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

William Shakespeare

The cunning livery of hell.

Ricky Gervais

Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

Tommy Armour

Just knock hell out of it with your right hand.

Ameen Rihani

We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.

Fred Couples

We've talked about playing with Tiger, which would be an ideal thing for me,

Tom Stoppard

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

Timothy Noah

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

Brit Marling

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Thomas Carlyle

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be

Juergen Schrempp

Mitsubishi Motors is the ideal partner to increase DaimlerChrysler's presence in all parts of Asia. Outside of Japan, (Mitsubishi) has the largest market share in Asia.

Coco Chanel

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

Charles Caleb Colton

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Charles Dickens

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

Charles Studd

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

Alan Alda

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

Chogyam Trungpa

Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.

Darren Shan

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

David Mitchell

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

Byron Katie

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

Cesare Pavese

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Dennis Potter

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Joanna Scott

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Kelly Stinnett

I was always scared by not having a mask on. I feel more comfortable that way.

Alexander Herzen

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Dr. Prettyman

Where else can you get a steel sword, put on a mask and then try and kill somebody. And it's all perfectly sanctioned.

Mark Dixon

We don't have a pile of masks sitting off to one side in anticipation of a pandemic.

Kelly Ioane

We have a lot of people sick right now and others getting sick. Keri is playing with a mask and getting sick on top of that.

Benjamin Franklin

Men take more pains to mask than to mend.

Toon Hermans

A red nose is the smallest mask in the world

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

Chosun Ilbo

For the sake of the remaining two years of his administration, Roh should seize the occasion to find a replacement for the man.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

John Collins

On occasion during cross-examination, the defendant was tearful and perhaps remorseful.

Evan Snapper

But there are occasions when separate filings make more sense. For example, when one taxpayer has lot of itemized deductions and the other taxpayer has very little income.

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

Michael Starke

I thought we rose to the occasion and played well.

John Neff

(We can put together something) for any occasion you'd want to give a gift,

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Adam Allen

Some of our fliers get torn down, and we just have to go and put them back up.

Debbie Eaton

About twenty-minutes before the tornado got here, we got down in our basement.

Ian Goldin

I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

Michael Koryta

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

Ralph Moore

Hey, Mark, you can't see the tornado now,

Ken Holland

He's got a partially torn MCL, he's got a torn ACL, ... He's out 4-6 months.

Terry Greene

He's independent enough that he doesn't want us to go back there, and he's told us so. We're really torn about it.

John Piper

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

Reynolds Price

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

Dexter Scott King

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Diana Gabaldon

This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?

Benjamin Franklin

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

Benjamin Franklin

The only time not wasted is wasted time.

Benjamin Franklin

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

Barbra Streisand

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

Charles R. Swindoll

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

Bonnie Raitt

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste