Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sturt

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

Charles Spurgeon

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

Alan Moore

Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

David Guterson

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

Cesar Pelli

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

Camille Paglia

Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ?

Caitlin Thomas

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

Carl Lewis

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

Carl Hiaasen

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Herbert Murerwa

We are aware of distortions in the market that have arisen from price controls. These controls have contributed to the shortages of basic commodities on the open market, with the same goods resurfacing on the parallel market.

Steve Sinnott

There are dangers that social difficulties can arise when you mix 11-year-olds with 15-year-olds. For example, if a 15-year-old was sent down to work with 11-year-olds that could lead to a serious loss of self-esteem and would be seen by peers as a sign of failure.

Anne Sullivan

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Jeff Hunter

We feel that this is a very appropriate resolution. You have to remember that this incident happened 17 years ago. The passage of time there are some evidentiary issues that arise and are challenges. So, the nature of the offense and where the victim is today we feel that this is a very appropriate resolution and the state and the victim are quite satisfied with the resolution.

Ronald Kessler

As the Marine One helicopter lifts off from the White House, the Prowler team watches for snipers. The team also responds to any threat that may arise at the White House itself.

Swami Vivekananda

Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Brian Polzner

Make friends with other musicians. If you have a group of people who want to play bad enough, you'll be able to find a place to play. Opportunities do arise if you work hard enough.

Sharon Salzberg

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.

Eckhart Tolle

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.