Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Agnes Martin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Toba Beta

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Shimon Peres

We were at the point where all of us could have lost control of the situation, and the bloodshed reached an unbelievable proportion. ... we pray for a day without funerals.

Alan Shearer

I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.

Charlotte Bronte

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charles Dickens

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

Charles Caleb Colton

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

Richard Eastman

The problem with the former cutoff of 140 is that by the time people were diagnosed with diabetes, about 20 percent already had complications, ... We know that the risk goes up sharply for those complications when the blood sugar gets to be about 126.

Yaron Ezrahi

The real change is that for the first time we have three people in the leading parties ... and none have the reputation or the record of a heroic military general or a bloody ruthless fighter.

Ehud Barak

The real cause is Arafat, ... paid with the blood of his people.

Isotonu Achor

There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.

Malik Peiris

What the study finds is that the impact of influenza in this case, on hospitalizations in Hong Kong ... is very similar to that documented in colder countries.

Cecil Rhodes

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton. (on why he left England for South Africa)

Thomas Campbell

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

Scott Shane

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

Theaster Gates

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

Ted Cruz

When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

Jane Austen

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

Charles Buxton

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Steve Sweat

We started to get cold down the stretch.

Aasif Mandvi

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.

Alan Shearer

There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman.

Alan Shearer

You only get one chance of an England debut.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Sergio Aguero

When I moved from Independiente to Atletico Madrid, I was only 18, and I found it hard to adapt. But what surprised me most about moving to England was how fast the game was. I like it, but it is so quick.

Jim Calhoun

When I walk down with Cousy I'm walking in as the face of New England as the face of so many people who weren't fortunate enough to get into what I got into.

Tom Odell

Everyone in England knows about Burberry, and it kind of represents a standard of being well-dressed... But the nice thing is, they have a lot of clothes, so I still feel like myself whenever I'm wearing their clothes.

Tao Okamoto

I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Charles E. Wilson

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

Tim Halstead

From 11:15 a.m. to noon we take it all down and roll out of there.

Hallie Ephron

I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

Mamie Eisenhower

Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon.

Robert Duvall

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

James M. Cain

They threw me off the haytruck about noon.

Emily Dickinson

Noon - is the Hinge of Day - ...

Stephen King

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

Ashley Madekwe

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

Anthony Trollope

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

Samantha Shannon

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

Barbara Pym

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all ...

Max Beerbohm

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

David Bowie

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Anne Fortier

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.

B. F. Skinner

We are going to be ready for Wednesday night. We know it's going to be tough. Oxford wants to go back to the state meet. We want to get there because we've never been. I know they are going to be ready for us and we will be ready for them.

Evelyn Waugh

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

Steven Wright

The statue is permanently out of place in my house,

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

John Wilhelm

Strikes are always a possibility. But we are not a strike-happy union. I look at strikes as a failure.

John Hedgecoth

We think that this strikes the right balance.

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

Matt Magee

He throws a lot of strikes and that's all we ask.