Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene Delacroix

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

Cynthia Payne

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

Joe Thornton

We've been trying to set a tone for last forty games. We've been hunting teams down the last forty games. We know what is at stake. We have to win every game to be in the playoffs. Really, every game has been a playoff game for us for so long, and we've been playing real well lately.

Kenneth Tynan

Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.

William Shakespeare

Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.

Skip Rimer

Forty is not bad. It means you are still growing.

Bill Dreher

We're not out of the woods yet. Forty percent of holiday sales are wrapped up in the week before Christmas.

Bible Bible

And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards: / And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

Bible Bible

The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Ed Asner

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

DeForest Kelley

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

Carlos Castaneda

A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable

Charles M. Schwab

The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

Arabella Weir

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

H. Hart

simply the first day in the dismantling of the hunting (ban).

Aristotle

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Allan Bloom

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Charlie Rose

I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Jim Litchfield

We're in a playoff situation, and we had to win this game. We didn't win, and we go home.

Rick Carlisle

We're in a must-win situation every night. We have to win games. It's important to be a playoff team. We have a string of years and we want to keep that going.

John LaFontaine

We want to play (tonight) as if it's a playoff game.

Mark Parrish

We're going to need everything out of Ricky ? and all of us ? to make a playoff run.

Baron Davis

We're just trying to get a win at this point. Can't talk about playoffs when you're losing.

Jose Lima

This win is like winning a playoff game. We're a young team, we stuck together and took it like a man. It's tough to stay tough, but we did it.

Chris Osgood

We ran into a team that's really good. Nowadays, when the playoffs start, there's no underdogs.

Kevin Morooney

She's been doing well and her spirits are up. We'll see how she reacts when playoffs begin.

Jay Lasley

When the playoffs start, it's a whole new season.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Steve Rodecap

We're just still searching, just trying to find out what teams are the best.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Matthew Faltys

Most of the teams at the top just didn't give up as much ground.

Tyler Mitchell

When we started out as freshmen, we were ok, but there were other teams out there who were a lot better than us.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Charles Grant

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

David Tom

First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be.

John Knowles

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

David Farber

Don't look at me in that tone of voice

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.