Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Harte

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement

David Quammen

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Carl Sagan

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Jandy Nelson

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

Cheryl Richardson

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Eckhart Tolle

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

Carol Marsh

She was a feisty woman. She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her.

Fred Matua

I am a feisty guy. I like to get after guys. I want to come out here and work hard and push to get better.

Jena Malone

But Lydia is the type of girl who will make things happen. If she has to go live with her sister Lizzie and Darcy, she'll just show up on their doorstep. She's a feisty little monkey.

Tyson Chandler

We were feisty out there, but they just hit some tough shots to win.

Chris Abani

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

Willie McGinest

Tom is a feisty guy. He says what's on his mind. He's on our team so I support whatever he says.

Johnny Gonzales

Mark played super. It was also good to see Reid get on track with a goal. Hempstead is a feisty bunch, but we played well. We are happy with the win and look forward to next week.

Amanda Hocking

You should get married more often," Loki teased. "It makes you feisty.

Martin Brodeur

He's very feisty on the puck and he's always involved in the play,

Jay-Z

When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.

Kim Ensing

She's the type of kid that comes to play when it's a big game. Annie was there emotionally the whole game, and that's what we needed.

Annie Wolaver

My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for my mother. My parents did the same for us.

Sean Hall

None of this has registered yet. It's all just shock. I'm numb. I loved Miss Annie like a mother. What a way to bring in the new year.

Jim Leljedal

The grandmother, Annie Williams, had been charged by us with manslaughter, but the grand jury is returned now with a charge of murder in the first degree.

Al Jarreau

I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there's Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I'm still in flight.

Lucy Alibar

There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.

Steve Goff

King and Mapes were two keys to our success today. Annie is one of our senior co-captains and she?s very deserving of that. She showed up well today, hammered the ball and made good choices. Cheryl was very consistent from the service line ... as good as she?s been all year.

Cate Blanchett

I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.