Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Healey

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

Elbert Hubbard

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Jay Dillon

From what I understand, he is a good-sized 9-year-old - he's not a small child. He had already knocked the officer's glasses off, and hit and kicked him.

Eleanor Tomlinson

3D, the ever-changing 3D. It's great. It's been really interesting. My family came to the set a few times, and I see them with their 3D glasses on. It's lovely to have them there and be a part of it, and see the magic that we're playing with, because it really is incomprehensible until you see it on a 3D screen.

Dick Vitale

Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.

William Temple

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Alexander Pushkin

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Charles Dickens

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

Ben Long

I was flabbergasted. I was trying to get a glimpse of him, and there he was, sprawled out on the ground right there.

Chogyam Trungpa

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

Lea Thompson

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Bob Kendrick

This will provide a glimpse of what life was like in the Negro Leagues.

Dean Koontz

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.

Matt Hasselbeck

My teammates and I have just seen a glimpse of what it would be like to win a world championship. And as hard as it is right now -- 'cause it's hard right now -- we know what needs to happen to get it done, and I can promise you that we are all going to do everything we can do to get it done next year. Thank you for your support this year!

Anaxagoras

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

Steve Sullivan

Tomas made some really timely saves for us and we went the other way with it. We play them so often, you never want to give them a glimpse of hope that they're in the hockey game.

Jon Gruden

We got our first glimpse of what these guys can do wire-to-wire.

Bob Ross

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

Al Gore

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

Andre Agassi

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

Douglas Rushkoff

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

Frank Herbert

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

H. P. Lovecraft

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

Jeremy Rifkin

In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

E. B. White

It's always very rewarding to be recognized by our peers in the industry.

George Soros

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.