Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

David Mitchell

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

David Mitchell

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

Caitlin Moran

It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.

Caspar David Friedrich

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

William Shakespeare

Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

Sathya Baba

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

Helen Sharman

During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, which was this wonderful deep blue, with clouds just over the top, and sunlight streaming in through the window.

Charles Wesley

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

Charles Lindbergh

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

Charles Dickens

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

Charles Dickens

The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.

Charles Dickens

"Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark," said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, "as you can't see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end."

Charles Stross

A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.

Charles Spurgeon

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.

Charles Spurgeon

The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.

Charles Spurgeon

The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

Alan Parsons

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

Alan Parsons

The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.

Charles Stanley

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

David Miliband

"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?"'

David Rakoff

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Byron Katie

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Bobbi Brown

I look at a woman and I don't see what's wrong with her. I see what's right.

Bernard Williams

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

David Hume

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

David Dreman

Analysts have always been overly optimistic.

Sean O'Faolain

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

Colin Mochrie

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

David Eddings

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Bill Vaughan

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Eugene Ionesco

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

Mark Twain

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Abu Ghraib

What have those Jordanians and Palestinians and Saudis got to do with us? Shame on them!

Shannon Stevens

She said every place she went, he showed up.

Pat Coyle

She turned it really good. And I'm not sure of the status yet.

Judy Pardonnet

I don't think it's anything specific to this area, but it's still under investigation.

Freddie Ljungberg

I think we can upset some of the big teams,

Adam Davis

That stuff comes and goes. It's something you've got to play through.

M. Hardman

We'll do it again. We're going to see it through.

Nigel Gault

It wouldn't be unusual at all for them to stop and start again.

Eileen collins

I've been in your shoes many times so I understand.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Jack Nance

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Anthony Hemingway

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

Greg Rusedski

(John) McEnroe sees him in the top 20, I see him getting into the top 50 and then the top 20.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Bob Harris

Well, I think everyone kind of sees us as the sheriff, you know.

Jeff Lindsay

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Nate Burleson

It was tough for him. When Superman sees Kryptonite for the first time, it's shocking.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Dave Gahan

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Jack Thompson

The other side wants to make me the issue,

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Charlie Bewley

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

Charles Kuralt

I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

Bobby Bowden

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Dave Gahan

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Charlie Bewley

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

Charles Kuralt

I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.

Derek Bailey

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Edwin Markham

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Charles Lamb

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

Brene Brown

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

Dick Wolf

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

Debra Messing

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking.

Craig David

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life...

Larry Starkey

We don't know why she was walking or where she was going.

Souza

We don't know who's walking around out there with Barrett's that we need to watch,