Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Penn Warren

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Donna Stiteler

We are at capacity at all shelters in the county.

Gary King

We started in January 1999 to prepare for the season. We're taking the experience we gained from last year with the knowledge we've gotten from this year's gift-giving holidays and have used it to increase and enhance the capacity of the overall site.

Arnold Palmer

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

John Carroll

We have seen a narrowing of the purpose of the newspaper in the eyes of its owner. Under the old local owners, a newspaper's capacity for making money was only part of its value. Today, it is everything.

Ayman Nour

We found in this long journey in a short time a great capacity for honesty, a great solidarity from the people for the Egyptian program for change, for the Egyptian program to reform this nation,

John Surma

We benefited from a positive global economic market and there is a positive environment at least through mid-year. We intend to operate as near to full capacity as we can in the second quarter.

Joseph Ramos

What's pushing these figures is domestic demand, with a major contribution from investment, which means productive capacity should continue growing in the coming quarters.

George Scalise

U.S. semiconductor companies have over 70 percent of their manufacturing capacity in the United States, while less than a third of our markets are here.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

Lindsay Lohan

I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

Robert Downey

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Erik Zanen

Life is one big gift you keep on recieving.

Seneca

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy

Blaise Pascal

Faith is a gift of God.

Doug Bruno

She said, 'I like to knit and read good books. Maggie had the gift of Irish blarney.

Jesse L. Martin

Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets - and it's worth the wait.

James Bundy

She contributed to the American theater in a lot of other ways than being a gifted playwright.

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Alanis Morissette

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

Alan Arkin

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

David Sedaris

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

Cary Grant

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Lance Armstrong

Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French.

Aimee Carter

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

Billy Joel

You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Adrienne Rich

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

Jasmine Guy

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Anita Bryant

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Fiona Apple

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

Catharine MacKinnon

If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

Jill Johnston

All women are lesbians except those who don't know it ...

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.