Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bible Bible

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

Larry Silverstein

Here in New York it's always feast or famine. It's going to be fascinating to see how the industry responds.

Marcus Aurelius

Varus did lately me to supper call, The table sumptuous was, the supper small; Loaden it was with weight of gold, not meat; Much to be seen was served, little to eat; Varus, our mouths not our eyes, to feast we're here; Take hence thy plate, or fil

Tracy Brown

WHILE YOU WERE DOWN UNDER THE TABLE SEARCHING FOR TABLE SCRAPS THE FEAST WAS ON THE TABLE.

Bible Bible

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.Enough is as good as a feast --for that matter Enougher's as good as a feast for the platter. --Arbely C. Strunk

Russ Purnell

Right now, the inconsistencies are plaguing us, and it's feast or famine. Part of it is that we're using a lot of people, so you're not getting that cohesiveness you usually have when you're using the same 11, 12 or 13 guys.

Marc Shmuger

This is a three-hour feast of an event.

Bob Buchanan

It's feast or famine. Some are getting (sales growth through discounts), some are getting it at full price.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Ai Weiwei

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

Ai Weiwei

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Audre Lorde

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Mike Maddux

We accomplished a lot. That's the luxury of throwing on the side. You can get things done.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Ai Weiwei

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your throat.

Douglas Adams

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

Mahatma Gandhi

Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.

Jeanette Winterson

Their throats were bare for God.

George Herbert

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

Ted Hughes

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Timothy Simons

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Charles Stross

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.