Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meir Soloveichik

We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.

Alan Huffman

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

Plautus

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Vitruvius

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Jules Verne

He rose at thirteen minutes to one, and directed his steps towards the large hall, a sumptuous apartment adorned with lavishly-framed paintings. A flunkey handed him an uncut Times, which he proceeded to cut with a skill which betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation.

Gordon Strachan

His presence will always be here, ... But I don't think he would like to be known as a figure that weighs heavily on everybody else. I think he'd like to say 'well, I've done my bit, you get on with your bit now'. The place is adorned with his pictures, which is quite right. But I've been to some clubs where it (the memory of a former great) can be a noose round your neck. It's not such a big problem here. He's well loved rather than worshipped. I think loving something is better than worshipping something. With worship you're kind of pushed into it. It can be a scary thing. It can be indoctrinated into people to worship a particular god. Love is a different. That has to gradually come on. You can't push anybody into loving anybody, but they all loved Jock.

Granth Sahib

He Himself created and adorned the Universe, and He Himself contemplates it. Some are counterfeit, and some are genuine. He Himself is the Appraiser.

Nicholas Kristof

When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in the decathlon, and he adorned our Wheaties boxes. We all wanted to be Bruce Jenner.

Bible Bible

And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, / As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Robert Emmet

Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.

Tove Jansson

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Caroll Spinney

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

Charles R. Swindoll

There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!

Michael Leunig

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Gioconda Belli

There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against the menace of U.S. and the unrestricted use of its power. Pinter's voice is an unceasing thunder.

Eliphas Levi

It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.

Phyllis Wise

Many of them have been more wonderful than we would have ever dared to hope for. I think that's what the most exciting part is - you just can't tell.

Phil Collins

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Bill Donabedian

We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Terry Kratovil

Nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. He always had a smile. He was always cheerful.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

O. Henry

She really stepped it up and said enough of this.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

Gerald Celente

Wal-Mart stepped to the plate, ... They didn't have to do that.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Darren Testa

He was a big surprise. He really stepped up for us.

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He showed up big. He stepped up and did a tremendous job.

Robert Garcia

I think you really have stepped it up a notch, and it's been noticed.

Derrick Jackson

I thought today was the first day that we stepped up and kind of had a little nastiness to us.

Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Alain Resnais

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

Al Hirt

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

David Guetta

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

David Crystal

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

David Cross

It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other.

C. Z. Guest

Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.

Carolina Herrera

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

Carolina Herrera

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.