Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

Alan Parker

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Alan Moore

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Chinua Achebe

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

Dave Barry

That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

Dave Barry

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

Carter G. Woodson

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

C. L. R. James

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

Karen Bell

She threw back her blanket and said 'Hi!' ... She was a wonderful human being who was just freezing.

Mary Phillips

She worries that Daisy's going to get cold in the winter, so I brought this blanket over.

Shari Sebbens

I'm a believer, but an unsettled one. I think it has something to do with the fact that my grandmother always told me she would come back and tickle my feet at night time when she passed away. She hasn't gotten me yet. But I keep the blanket over my feet at night, no matter how hot it is.

Liberty Ross

I still have my Levi's jacket that I bought on the Portobello Road when I was 14, and it's like part of me, you know, it's got oils in it, and it's my comfort, security blanket or something.

Ed Golod

Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but ignore IM, it's like locking the doors but leaving your windows open. Your security initiatives have to blanket both IM and email.

Dakota Fanning

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

Jamie Dixon

We want to help all our guys in any way we can, if they want to further their careers, but our focus is on our guys and getting ready for (first-round opponent) Louisville. People are smart enough to know when the right time is to talk about other schools. Every situation is different, so to give a blanket statement wouldn't be the right thing to do.

David Blunkett

I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.

Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Alan Watts

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Akshay Kumar

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

Chris Cooper

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

Chogyam Trungpa

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

Chita Rivera

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

David LaChapelle

The adornment of the body is a human need.

David LaChapelle

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

Dave Barry

I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels.

Charles Dickens

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Charles Dickens

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

Charles Dickens

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

Charles Dickens

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

Edgar Cayce

Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.

Craig Heller

Sitting where we're at right now, I'm very pleased. I've been waiting for somebody to pinch me and wake me up.

Brian May

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

Kim Miller

The pins were not where they were supposed to be. If the pins had been in place, the seats would not have come loose.

Joe Ciccarelli

We still haven't been able to pinpoint these shootings to anybody.

Nicklas Lidstrom

Tough to say. It's tough to pinpoint what's different, really.

Laura Osnes

I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

Vince Neil

Yeah, blindfolds, just like pin the tail on us. We're the donkey.

Aaron Small

Please, somebody pinch me when it's all over.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Guth

It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Al Jardine

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Chris Coleman

We can't feel safe because we are not safe. (on Fulham, 2004-5 season)

Chris Christie

We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Alan Watts

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

Billy Gibbons

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Edith Sitwell

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

David Duke

What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but their differences ranged all the way from physical characteristics to more subtle differences such as extreme aversion for work in cold weather. On cold days, when I felt invigorated, my black co-workers seemed lethargic.

Audrina Patridge

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

Derek Hough

My type, which I didnt realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

Benjamin Watson

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Alan Ball

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.

Colleen Segarra

When you touch the animal, all you feel is bone.

Charles Kuralt

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

Mark Hughes

Touch wood there has been no reaction, so we are very hopeful.

Estee Lauder

Touch a face. Touch a hand. Say, "This is for you, this is what I want you to wear.