Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Edwards

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low

Elizabeth Banks

You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

Jake Epstein

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.

Christopher Moore

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

Jonathan Ames

Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's very easy to feel embarrassed. It's hard to be artful with it. It's like a ticker tape. It's not a forum that's worth mastering, you know?

Elizabeth Banks

You have got to have an agent, ... It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

Robert Pinsky

Vivid and reflective, documentary and visionary, re-imagining the city of New York with the same urgency that ponders the opening words of Genesis, this is a passionate, artful and re-readable book.

Cervantes Saavedra

The most artful part in a play,may is the fool's

Horace

Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones

Irish Blessings

May the friendships you make be those which endure and all of your grey clouds be small ones for sure. And trusting in Him to Whom we all pray, may a song fill your heart every step of the way.

Demosthenes

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

Edvard Grieg

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

JoGayle Howard

Giant pandas are easy compared to clouded leopards.

Fawaz Gerges

There are many clouds on the horizon. The situation is very foggy and difficult to read.

Stephan Pastis

I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour, ... I took a picture with him. He looked at some of the strips that I had been doing and gave me some tips. Man, I was on cloud nine.

Tom Finucane

I wouldn't say the sun is shining on them yet, but the clouds are parting. I see a lot of opportunity.

Fiona Apple

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream, you got your head in the clouds you're not at all what you seem.

Esther Schreiber

I do not see any dark clouds on the horizon for Microsoft. I think it's straight shooting, straight up.

Ugo Betti

Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Seamus Mallon

Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.

Jeannie Thompson

Moments like this are why you get into coaching. The girls have such a passion for the game, and to be a part of this team in a moment like this: There are really no words to describe it, just seeing how much fun they had and how much they enjoyed being out there tonight.

Alexandra Orlando

I can't describe what happened. Everything is very vivid within my mind. I knew I could get good results, I was sure of my skill, but this... Well, this was more than I expected. It was a surprise for me, too.

John Prezzia

I can't really describe it. I just always knew I could win.

Felicia Lofton

I can't even describe the feeling I'm feeling right now. The girls have worked so hard. We've had our ups and downs, but the girls finished strongly. We set a goal to win a state championship and we did it.

Dick Cheney

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; ""consistent"" is not one of them.

Brad Dean

I can't give you one term to describe us today. There is such a mix of visitors.

Bill Gates

Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.

Elinor Glyn

The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

S. Jay Olshansky

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

Charles Scott Sherrington

If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex as the scratch-reflex can be termed a reflex of double-sign, for it develops excitatory end-effect and then inhibitory end-effect even during the duration of the exciting stimulus.

Jessica Simpson

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

Barbara Kingsolver

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Jeff Bingaman

There are no minimum royalty rates, there are no enforcement provisions, there are no required inspections, there are no limits on the size or duration of leases, no requirement that operation plans be approved,

Baltasar Gracian

Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration

Mike Sullivan

When you get a 5-on-3 in the last minute of the game and a 4-on-3 for that duration in the overtime (3:11), your expectation is to win the hockey game. We didn't do that tonight and that's disappointing.

James Blumenthal

duration of exercise didn't seem to matter -- what seemed to matter most was whether people were exercising or not.

William Blake

Mechanical excellence is the only vehicle of genius.

Timothy Roemer

Fs and Ds and incompletes aren't the American ideal and the American standard of excellence, not when it comes to protecting our people. We can do better. We must do better than that.

Dave Ramsey

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Dave Ramsey

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

Barbara Williams

We are really proud to be part of this fabulous industry and to be part of the celebration which showcases excellence in the industry.

Michael Wright

We have always strived for excellence with our products, so it's satisfying to be involved with an organization that rewards excellence in its industry.

Juergen Schrempp

We have what we need. The name of the game now is operational excellence. The group is structured as it will be in the long term.

Rebecca Merblum

We want to introduce something with excellence and intelligence to people that have never seen a violin before. Maybe even inspire one kid.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Tom Benson

So it went back and forth to see what could be done. The Alamodome has some restrictions on what games could be here. LSU had restrictions, too. So it was a lot of conversations about different games.

Jon Wilson

Mimi's races were great. Watching her go back and forth in the lead was exciting.

Russell Potts

We have similar backgrounds in many instances, ... We have never been reluctant to take on the Establishment, so to speak, and we've been forthright in our objections to the so-called 'Good Ole Boy' network.

Bible Bible

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

Matthew Arnold

Friends who set forth at our side, / Falter, are lost in the storm. / We, we only, are left!

Jules Verne

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

Henry Hughes

She wasn't as forthright as she could have been, ... When something like this happens, someone has to be able to stand up and say, 'You know what? We didn't do the right thing here, and now we are going to make it better.'

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light

Ryan Seacrest

Simon and I go back and forth with each other, but it's in a different way.

Charles Spurgeon

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Charles R. Swindoll

At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

Demosthenes

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Denis Diderot

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Elbert Hubbard

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Eduardo Galeano

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Albert Schweitzer

The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

J. Taylor

Several of the smart bettors were happy to be on.

Unknown

May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.

Unknown

May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold— And at the end of all your rainbows may you find a pot of gold.

Mitt Romney

No one can be happy with the kind of response which we've seen in New Orleans.

Retief Goosen

Obviously there's a long way to go still but I'm very happy to start off like this. You can't win the tournament in the first round so I'm just going to keep playing well and see what happens.

Chris Evert

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher. Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter.... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

Lord Mansfield

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Charles Spurgeon

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Spurgeon

You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.

Charles Spurgeon

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

Charles Spurgeon

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

Charles Spurgeon

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Edgar Allan Poe

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

Ben Jonson

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

Ben Jonson

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Albert Schweitzer

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

E. Helm

Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations.

Dustie Robertson

Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dennis Prager

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better

Denholm Elliott

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Dean Ornish

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Danny Davis

like a dance: how low can you go.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Safa Rashtchy

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Bob Schnorbus

We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a third of sales for only a two week period, you still come out with an eye-popping 13.3 million sales rate; 13.3 million is about as low as sales ever get.

Rusty Agte

Much as I'd like to, you can't pretend this is not a big deal.

Tenzin Gyatso

When things are desperate, there is no need to pretend that everything is beautiful.

Ruth Rendell

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Olivia Hussey

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

Beck

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

Eric Maskin

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Taylor Handley

When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Andrew Lincoln

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

Jack Ford

mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Felipe Alou

No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Kenneth Rice

No, I didn't want to talk about that.

Eddie Perez

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

Source Unknown

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.