Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Charlie Chaplin

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Charles Caleb Colton

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Charles Spurgeon

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

David Dinkins

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

David Brooks

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

Barry Bonds

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Barry Bonds

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

Barry Bonds

I like to be against the odds.

Jean Bruyere

Let us not overstrain our talents, for if we do we shall do nothing with grace; a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman

Ozzie Guillen

Mr. Cooper, the gentleman from New York wants to speak with you.

Debra Winger

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

Edgar Allan Poe

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

Dizzy Gillespie

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

Russ Howard

We had an Italian gentleman come to one of the curling receptions we were at as a team and we tasted some of the wines from the Italian region we will be visiting. He tried to help us with some Italian words, but I can't remember half of the words he taught us.

William Shakespeare

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

Charles Tupper

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

Charles de Gaulle

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

Beth Moore

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

Billy Rose

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

Brendan Myers

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not worship.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Claes Oldenburg

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

Isaac Hayes

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

Erasmus Darwin

With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, And watches, as it moves, the orb of day.