Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.

Patricia Sun

Patriotism is a beautiful thing - to love your country, your land, and your people and have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves if we don't realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love.

Peter Malkin

Particularly, I enjoy strolling in the streets, watching passersby, gazing at the beautiful variety of the dresses and perceiving their joy; their sadness. At home, during the small hours of the night, I'll paint from memory what I have seen in the streets until I am under the impression of being with them again.

Alice Hogan

Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.

Mark Twain

Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.

Tom DeLay

Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

Jim Murren

Our core competence is making beautiful and creative space that makes people feel special. So they took that care and put it in a medical setting. Everybody was motivated by a personal experience. We tried our best to put ourselves in the shoes of the patients and families and how they might feel.

Jim Willis

Robbie is probably the fastest kid on the team, and has a beautiful touch. He has played everywhere off the bench for us, and has fit in wherever he has played.

Ronnie Cates

Right there on the lake with the sun going down, (the amphitheater) is a beautiful structure. It's just a great way to enjoy an evening.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Jack McGuire

Our logistics worked well generally, up until 2005. We couldn't imagine how something that big and complicated could happen. It took a process that worked OK and stretched it, and we got to see all the cracks.

Mike McLaughlin

People have put just about anything you can imagine on top of landfills.

Julie Daum

Some have made more money than they expected. Some have been merged out of a job. Some have been as successful as they could have imagined and feel it's time to move to the next phase of their lives.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

John Schuerholz

I think it's obvious. If he doesn't do what he's doing for us, I can only imagine where we'd be. I can't imagine a player on a winning team being more valuable to his team than he's been.

Sarah Frazier

I was trying to imagine what a train would look like if it ran into a pig.

Jose Ramos

I thought I had made it. I never imagined I would be here marching.

Derek Brown

Just about any industry you can imagine is going to be impacted in some way,

Paul Gebhardt

I don't imagine I would be disqualified, but there can be time or monetary penalties.

Scott Kaden

Our resorts have all had a very strong March, a very wintry March. The mountains are still getting significant snowfall.

Cynthia Morgan

Respondents in the mountain states -- where self-employed technologists are proportionately rare -- were the most optimistic, regionally.

Rep. Chalk

I think you all are making a mountain out of a molehill. I don't know there was anything she said that was not the truth.

E. Hicks

We may never find it. It may be on the top of another mountain by now.

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

Carl von Clausewitz

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Mayor Mavis

Mount Vernon has always been very supportive of the program.

Chuck Tursky

Mount Pleasant has a solid team from top to bottom. They have the most solid lineup of any team in the WPIAL.

Sheldon Souray

Now we have a big mountain to climb, and the road is going to be tough.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned me against the wall. There was hardly any space left between us, just a thin boundary of air, but Patch managed to eliminate it. "Let's be honest, Nora. You've got it bad for me." His eyes held a lot of depth. "And I've got it bad for you." He leaned into me and put his mouth on mine. A lot of him was on me, actually. We touched base at several strategetic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

Billy Corgan

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

Bill Engvall

You can't climb a tile wall.

Bill Engvall

I shot me a nice deer, and I hung it on the den wall in my house. My neighbor comes over and he says, Did you shoot that thing? I said, Nope. He ran through the wall and got stuck. Here's your sign.

Bernie Sanders

What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: 'You own and control the economy, you own Wall Street, you own the coal companies, you own the oil companies. Now, for a very small percentage of your wealth, we're going to give you the opportunity to own the United States Government.' This is the essence of what Citizens United is all about - and that's why it must be overturned.

C. S. Lewis

Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

C. S. Lewis

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

Cecelia Ahern

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.

Cecelia Ahern

When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table breaks, or a picture fall of the wall, it makes noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent... and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.