Famous Quotes & Sayings

Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags - like a heavy lead

Thomas Haliburton

I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Shiel, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and so on. These men are all upper crust here.

Patty Sorrels

We have tried other crusts and they were horrible. Our pizza is different. The crust is flakier.

Irving Smith

That gives the meat a nice crust and keeps the meat moist and tender.

Charlie Chaplin

Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

Charlie Chaplin

The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

Charles W. Chesnutt

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

Charles Tennyson Turner

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

Charles de Lint

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

Charles de Lint

... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.

Charles Dickens

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

Charles Dickens

The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.

Charles Dickens

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Marguerite Gardiner

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Kim Edwards

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Gaby Bussell

The region (5) we are in now is not as intense. It was good to play some of our old rivals again. Going to state is helping to make all of our team's dreams come true.

Kevin Garnett

The fact that she pays the overhead of her employees and the foundation itself and just goes out and makes dreams come true ... I think it makes it more beneficial, ... It's a good thing.

Raza Jaffrey

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

Suzanne Fields

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

Stephen Colletti

It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted.

Anna Kendrick

In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.

Tim Minear

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

Charles Spurgeon

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Barney Frank

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

Baltasar Gracian

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

Benjamin Walker

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

Bible Bible

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

Tiger Woods

Unless it turns big-time downwind and the fairways dry out, no, you can't get there in two.

George Taylor

we experienced a very dry mid-winter last year, and that is something we never anticipated.

Jennifer Connelly

The producers were great. They tried so hard to make it bearable. They got a hot tub so I could sit around and be warm between without having to dry off the whole time. But there was a lot trudging around in cold, dank water.

Theo Van Gogh

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Arne Glimcher

Everything happens through relationships.

Edgar Bergen

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Bill Murray

Be available for life to happen.

Matt Mullenweg

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

John Cohen

Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.

Tom Pecora

We're getting there. We still haven't had a night where everyone is playing their total A-game. But that's OK. I'm hoping that happens next weekend.

Red Cavaney

What happens when we don't have a year like this one?

William Shakespeare

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

August Wilson

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Melvin Watkins

What he told us is, it's an opportunity to get back to playing basketball. All the speculation was a heavy burden.

Samuel Coleridge

When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.

Broderick Crawford

I was always the second heavy.

Brad Doyle

Yes, it will rain on their parade. There's a possibility of some heavy rains in the Pasadena area.

Josh Wright

We have really heavy guitars, but the vocals aren't heavy.

Daniel Blumenthal

I think the smart money would say we're going to have another heavy season of West Nile virus this summer because of the wet spring, (which means) a lot of mosquitoes,

Howard Davidowitz

I think there will be heavy promotions over the holidays because retailers have not been meeting their sales plans.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Andrew Wallace

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.

Richard Money

We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Tyler Cowen

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

Kendall Mills

We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

Charlie Munger

When you mix raisins and turds, you've still got turds.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

David Richardson

It will be 'Roseanne'-ish in nature, a real woman raising two kids. There won't be any winking at the camera, no double-entendre jokes.

Betty Smith

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

Ron Kittle

This was one of the rotten things that happened.

Donald O'Connor

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

William Shakespeare

A rotten case abides no handling.

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?

Curtis Sliwa

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.

Ernest Hemingway

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Jasper Fforde

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

Rob Butcher

From our standpoint, it's nothing more than a sore shoulder.

Larry Davis

He's going to be sore tomorrow. If he's not sore tomorrow, I'll be very surprised.

Terence

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Jane Austen

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Tom Peterson

It's probably from over-use. It's going to be sore for a while. It's probably chronic.

Jeff Bagwell

It was a little sore to start with, but the more I went, the better it felt.

Kim Clijsters

The way I walk around, everything is hurting, ... My ankles, my wrists ? everything is sore and making a lot of noise.

Claudio Reyna

It has been really sore and it didn't feel right. I couldn't train and I was just trying to get through games.

Claudio Reyna

It has been really sore and it didn't feel right.

Dr. Seuss

Everything stinks until it's finished.

Courtney Love

How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.

David Bowens

It would stink to have to travel like that.

Jason Patric

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

Javier Vazquez

I mean, what can you do? It kind of stinks that was the first hit. ... That's part of the game.

Patti LuPone

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

Merle Haggard

There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.

Peyton Manning

I don't usually stink, but I stunk

Bill Joy

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Diana Wynne Jones

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

Derrick Rose

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

Alan Sugar

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

Alan Sugar

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

Alan Sugar

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

John Berry

too young to have worked with mules, but old enough to have worked in a sugar mill.

Ed Miliband

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

Jasmine Guinness

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.