Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

George Granville

She will, and she will not - she grants, denies,-Consents, retracts, advances, and then flies

Pete Conrad

Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last 30 years.

Ron Gatewood

Juan Jose Alfonso now flies with God -- I am sure.

Jordan Palmer

He's a Thomas Howard-like linebacker who just flies around.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''

Bob Holthus

He flies to Kentucky Monday morning. Odds for the Kentucky Derby? I think he will be no worse than second choice. Of course, I might have a bias.

Ivan Turgenev

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

English 17th Century Proverbs

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

Octavio Paz

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Virginia Henley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

William Gibson

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

Barbara Kingsolver

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Brad Pitt

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession...

Tom Bailey

Yes, people's obsession with my Thompson Twins years is very frustrating,

Alberto Giacometti

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

E. M. Forster

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

Agatha Christie

... obsessions are always dangerous.

Ken Livingstone

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

Steven Pinker

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Madhup Tiwari

When we questioned him about his whereabouts he was unable to give any satisfactory answer.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.