Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Ben Jonson

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Aristotle

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

James L. Petigru

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

Michael Haneke

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

Ian Paisley

I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.

Gail Tsukiyama

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

George Allen

I think they will step down if they're indicted. I do think that's appropriate if they're in the midst of an indictment.

Adam Braun

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

Agatha Christie

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Stan Conte

I don't know how serious it is. We're still in the midst of it. We're doing some testing and will know more tomorrow afternoon.

John Fernandes

Right now we are in the midst of running down leads.

Jim Calhoun

Rankings and polls and seeds and all that stuff, in the midst of a game, they don't count. You have to make shots, you have to get rebounds, you have to play defense.

Erin Morgenstern

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

Masha Lipman

(Motherland's policies) are very, very popular with the Russian people.

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

John Jones

We get participants and spectators from all over the world.

Tim Crouch

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Bob Demesy

We have raced all over, and there's nothing worse for spectators than standing around waiting for the races. We keep them going.

Jerome Bettis

I was a spectator out there, ... I can't give you much more than that.

Joe Beasley

The only thing I can say is that spectators need to stay off the field,

Tim Cole

This is a place where we talk with each other on Sunday mornings. We are not just spectators and performers.

Marcel Duchamp

It is the spectators who make the pictures.

Jason Spezza

Dany was Dany tonight. He was flying. He had the one-timer going. I was just a spectator tonight.

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Kathleen Blanco

We're dumping things into the hole, just to stem the tide.

Greg Schiano

Sometimes you make a play like that interception in the end zone and you stem the tide and find a way to win. We interfered.