Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

Emile Cioran

Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet; already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while.

Armando Navarro

I think that this is a contagion that can't be stopped. It is growing by leaps and bounds.

John Milton

And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.

Julie Solis

She's not a flashy player. She just does her job.

Tina Gaughan

She's very fundamentally skilled. She's not real flashy but she doesn't have to be. She just does what she has to for the team.

Thalia

Some of my fans want me to just dance and go crazy and wear flashy outfits.

Justin Tuck

I love black diamonds. They say your watch or jewelry wasn't cheap, but they aren't too flashy and in your face.

Anna Kendrick

I've never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.

Miyeko Murase

I was very impressed by Mrs. Burke because it's not a flashy painting. It's a religious painting, and, in old, not terribly good condition. Nevertheless, she went right at it.

Rose Byrne

You know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy... I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.

Butch Kobel

Elgin is not flashy but is a solid team.

Charlie Worsham

'Rubberband' is a lot of things, but it's not a flashy record.

Steve DiPatri

We started getting in foul trouble and it took us away from doing the things we wanted. It was our big girls in trouble, too, so we had to try to hide our weaknesses inside. They took advantage.

Larry Brown

When he gets into a little better shape and stays out of foul trouble, he'll stay in the game for longer stretches.

Jeff Shafer

We were trying to foul, and I didn't have any more timeouts to talk about it. We needed to foul a little more. They didn't know. They're young, they didn't know they needed to foul at that point.

Hayden Fry

We're going to foul up once in a while, but people need to know we don't do it on purpose. Playing the game with integrity-that's what it's all about.

Cathy Inglese

We got to the foul line a lot more.

Bobby Perry

We knew they were foul prone. Their big guys go after a lot of shots.

Bobby Bates

She can't get tired, she can't get in foul trouble because she means too much to us out there. If she gets tired in practice, I don't take her out because she's not going to come out in the game. I tell her getting tired is not an option, she can get that out of her head.

Jen Milne

She hasn't been in foul trouble all season. It was so uncharacteristic that it kind of left us at a loss for a little bit.

Harry DeFrank

She's a good shooter, a good foul shooter, too. She has a nice touch, and she can hit the boards. We worked with her on her inside game this year, and when she started doing the right things in practice then I started playing her more.

Alan Rickman

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

Akshay Kumar

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

Chaim Potok

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Bob Marley

Them belly full, but we hungry; A hungry mob is a angry mob.

Nell Newman

When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

Montae Reagor

We're just a hungry team. We're trying to prove people wrong. We want to show people we're just not a one-sided team.

Brian Richert

Seymour is a quality team. They're hungry for the title.

Alleggrie Guinn

This win streak keeps our momentum up for the tournament because everyone is going into the tournament thinking they can win it. So we have to come in there and be hungry because at tournament time there's no telling what's going to happen.

Dawn Staley

We are not in the driver's seat. And when you're not in the driver's seat, you got to play hungry every night. And that's what we're doing.

Brian Seymore

We're going to lean on Sam all season. He makes plays no one else can make.

Rodney Atkins

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

Kris Carr

Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light.

Natalie Imbruglia

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

Axl Rose

I'm in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that's usually where I lean anyway... I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama.

Josh Silver

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

Vanessa Friedman

For women you would not want to leave your shirt undone, so that if you lean over you reveal something you did not want to reveal,

Gino Guyer

From here on out, we've just got to lean on each other and push each other and be there to support each other.

Josh Silver

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

Charles Caleb Colton

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Charles Caleb Colton

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Charles Caleb Colton

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Charles Stross

Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Charles Spurgeon

Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

Johnnie Burton

There are refineries that are not ready to take the product at the end of the pipe. So it's not just the pipes that's the problem, it's everything at the end of the pipe also.

Troy Smith

Pressure busts pipes -- but it can also make a diamond. I'm a diamond.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Tom Perkins

If that happened, it would rank right up there with anything else I've done in my career.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Jonny Moroni

To be ranked sixth internationally our first time out was pretty great.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Bill Richards

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Bryan Adams

The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

Robert Armknecht

We are seeing a rotation back into some of the real companies, if you will.

Cilla Black

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

David Attenborough

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

Donald O'Connor

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

Ron Kittle

This was one of the rotten things that happened.

Joss Whedon

Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind of contained, rote superhero franchise.

Betty Smith

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

William Shakespeare

A rotten case abides no handling.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

Frederic Bastiat

They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

Denzel Washington

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

Edna Ferber

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Benjamin Franklin

Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

Benjamin Franklin

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

Diana Wynne Jones

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

Abraham Lincoln

To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

Ricky Gervais

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Anna Chlumsky

There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Bob Weir

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

Georges Bizet

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

George Herbert

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

Honore de Balzac

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Oliver Goldsmith

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Michelle Moran

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

Virgil

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched