Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Letwin

It is alchemy in reverse: the golden rule has turned to dross in his hands

Kris Holden-Ried

'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.

Catherine Hardwicke

Obviously, 'Twilight' had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn't make the movie. Fox wouldn't make it. Nobody wanted to do it.

Aml Ameen

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

William Temple

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

Kathryn Harrison

We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.

Carl Jung

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

M. Wolfe

It's alchemy and chemistry and farming and hard work. Really hard work.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

Dean Cain

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

Denis Leary

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

Chadwick Boseman

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,

Rick Tomberlin

There is no other job that I'd leave the Golden Hawks for. We've made more memories than money could buy. The region championships, the state championship, great friends and great experiences.

Charlie Sheen

I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

C. S. Lewis

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

Al Gore

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

Twiggy

My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.

Edward Abbey

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

Charles de Lint

I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.

Charles Dickens

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Robert Dudley

Let me be very clear: We have not made any such decision, and nothing yet has been ruled out,

Rachael Ray

She said the first rule is to be myself.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Ed Belfour

I thought about it afterwards. It's frustrating. It's a new rule that you have to get used to it.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Jason Garey

I think it turned out pretty well for me.

Madeline Albright

He has to be turned over. We want to see him in The Hague,

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.