Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Criss

Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.

Carl Jung

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

Ovid

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

Marcel Proust

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

Kurt Cobain

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

John Milton

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

John Milton

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

Rick Riordan

But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here.

Rick Riordan

Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. “Narcissus is a loser! He’s so weak, he can’t bench-press a Kleenex. He’s so lame, when you look up lame on Wikipedia, it’s got a picture of Narcissus—only the picture’s so ugly, no one ever checks it out.

Cecelia Ahern

Empty words almost echo within themselves

George Lucas

It echoes what is about to occur with Anakin.

Ben Wagner

It echoes really well in the Freehold Raceway Mall.

Paul Stupin

We look for the right piece of music that emotionally echoes the intent of the scene where it's going to be placed. And we look for all different kinds of music that echoes all different emotions and attitudes.

Jack Randorff

If we have echoes, those echoes step on top of the spoken word, and then you can't understand it. And if you can't understand the words here, there's no reason for a convention.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

C. S. Lewis

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'

Gaelic Proverb

Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.

Sterling Knight

I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few years ago, and I lost it! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, and I didn't know how to speak. It was crazy. He was nice enough to talk to my family and me for 10 minutes, but I remember babbling away about nonsense.

Sara Cox

Lola's always babbling - her first word was 'doggie',

Janis Joplin

I hope you're going to edit this stuff. I don't want to sound like a senile, self-pitying chick babbling on and on about her days of glory.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'

Eoin Colfer

There’s always time for babbling.