Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis MacNeice

A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

Jose Rizal

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon --that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on --Judibras

Ethan Allen

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue

Isabella Bird

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?

Gray Davis

This is an unspeakably barbarous act. These investigators were working hard, doing their jobs, protecting California consumers. I am sure that law enforcement will do everything in its power to bring those responsible to justice.

George Edward Woodberry

Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

Alun Jones

The savage and barbarous crimes committed in Chile and the territories of other states including the USA, Spain and Italy are not within the functions of a head of state in English law, the law of nations, or the law of Chile.

Lawrence Powell

We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way.

Tangee Overly

I can't lie and say that I'm sorry that this conclusion happened because I'm not. Dan was very brutally murdered.

Thom Lynch

If this is not a hate crime, I don't know what is. She would not have been as brutally murdered if she were not living as a young woman.

David Miller

My first impression of (Cowell) was that he's a really honest man. He says what he thinks and he doesn't hold back, especially for the TV show. Sometimes he's doing them a favor by being so brutally honest with them.

Ben Parr

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

Carrie Preston

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal holding pens. The government claims it's to save the horses from starvation. Critics claim the real motive is to clear the land for cattle grazing. Critics also say the horses are brutally traumatized.

Arthur Smith

This time it was much more intense. Last year, the contestants were kind of 'us versus Gordon' right up until the end - this was brutally competitive right from the beginning.

Sarah McLachlan

I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.

Carlos Fuentes

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Charlie Gonzalez

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Jeff Burton

The fact is, our sport is not as diverse as it needs to be.

Tracy Morgan

I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

Jason Alderman

Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just won't know.

David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Cary Fowler

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

C. S. Lewis

At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

Charlotte Bronte

My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.

Charlotte Bronte

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

Charlotte Bronte

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

Charles Sumner

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Renee Shepherd

Self-sown flowers provide a lot of serendipity, which is one of the reasons people garden. When they come up, it's a delight.

Frank Lepore

On some level, we're sensitive to negatively stigmatizing people. I guess they could have named (hurricanes) after flowers or other neutral things.

Oprah Winfrey

I did send flowers and I did send a note

Angie Brown

We would love to be able to see the dress. We try to match the ribbon with that and make sure the flowers match. We know this is a special day.

Don Rickles

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Henry David Thoreau

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal -- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation . . .

Paul Simon

Hello lamp post, what ya knowin'? I come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain't you got no rhymes for me? do do do do... feelin' groovy.

Jan Popa

Sprucing up the front porch is pretty critical. New paint is good and placing urns of flowers around the door, if the season is appropriate.

Denise Valentine

JC Flowers has a reputation in this market for making these types of investments. It's someone known for restructurings and re-workings.

C. S. Lewis

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

Thomas Erskine

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Byron Katie

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.

Carlos Santana

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Jane Austen

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

Charles Spurgeon

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

Aubrey Beardsley

I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

John Carroll Lynch

Psychological horror I've always appreciated, like 'Rosemary's Baby.' The slasher movies and the grotesque movies are the ones that I've really been off for a while.

George Meyer

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

Diane Wakoski

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Ashley Montagu

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Bella Abzug

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No one can transcend their own individuality.

Brittany Murphy

I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Joy Couch

We've just got to go and do what we've done for the last three years -- lace them up and work hard.

Andrew Vachss

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

E. Hicks

This is something we've all been waiting to see. Just to be able to get out and lace them up is nice, but being out here makes it even better.

Miuccia Prada

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

Rod Stewart

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

Scott Westerfeld

Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace

Zac Posen

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,

Karl Eikenberry

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience,

Alan Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Thomas Middleditch

Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Barbara Kruger

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

S. Walker

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Bon Bean

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

David M. Shoup

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Douglas Hamilton

That's how we think the jovian rings are formed,

Mike Scioscia

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

Mickey Spillane

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Joss Whedon

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

Rocky Marciano

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

L. J. Smith

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Mike Birbiglia

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Richard Jefferson

It is better. It is more a stiff back, it is not spasms anymore.

Jim Farmer

There's no disputing it'll be a stiff test,

Gary Sheffield

It's still stiff and still sore. It's the same as yesterday. I'm day to day.

Brad Penny

It was pretty stiff and it was getting worse.