Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Alan Moore

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Alan Jay Lerner

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

Al Pacino

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Kathleen Bergen

We want to see the airport remain open to commercial service. We view this deadline (Tuesday) ... as a deadline after which we will re-evaluate where the airport stands.

Chris Carter

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chris Brown

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.

Howard Tritz

We've always been a mining town. Now we're going to boom again.

Kevin McMahon

We stopped the source of the spill and have deployed approximately 8,000 feet of boom to contain it. Our main goals are to protect people and the environment, so we're focusing our efforts on safely recovering the oil and minimizing impact to the environment and other businesses in the area. We're responding as aggressively as the weather conditions safely permit. No one has been injured, and we certainly want to keep it that way.

Charles L. Allen

Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.

Douglas Duncan

We have seen a lot of pre-positioning. Boomers are buying that retirement home before they have sold their current residence.

Don Phillips

Whenever one or two people think they want a study group or discussion - boom - you've got a class. And that's what makes SAGE so great. They're drawing on personal experiences. Been there, done that.

James Gill

Let's not forget the fact the recent boom that we've experienced has been attributable very much to the (New York) Stock Exchange, and that the main thing is to keep them in New York.

Brian Clark

We heard the boom, boom, boom -- like a series of gunshots, ... It disappeared into its own dust so quickly. We didn't run initially; we just stared at it in awe.

Paul O'Neill

Yes, it's true we are going through dislocations because of a correction related to the boom that ended in the summer of 200, but the foundations of the American economy are very deep and very solid, ... And we are going to be great.

Paul Woods

There is booming technology in India, but it has been suggested there is little thought for security, which creates a market to exploit that.

John Berger

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees.

Tomas Transtromer

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Gracie Gold

'Pretty Little Liars' - my sister and I read the books, so we stuck to it for the first season, but it started to kind of drift off; so did we.

Donald Selkin

We're drifting, and we're probably going to keep drifting for the next few weeks. But that's OK, there are positive developments out there. Oil prices seem to be under control, and I'm more encouraged about the second-quarter earnings than I have been in a while.

Don Zimmer

Of course, I was there eight years. Seven of the eight years, we had a team. A team. You know what I mean by team? A team. I think when you go through so many players and changes, that tends to drift away a little bit.

Randy Bachman

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

Marc Cherry

My hope is it's a universe, and people drift out and sometimes they drift back in again. Just because someone leaves doesn't mean they can't show up in some other way.

Richard Freeman

I am housebound. There is no point to shoveling the sidewalk ... the drifts are impossibly high and gusty,

Mike Law

We still need to work on offense. Until we get solid up front we're going to make mistakes and those mistakes are going to slow us down.

Jeff Francoeur

When you've got guys like Andruw (Jones), Chipper (Jones), Julio (Franco) and Marcus (Giles) in front of you, you have some RBI chances. A pitcher doesn't want to pitch to those guys. He'd rather pitch to a rookie any day.

Debbie Carter

We're not going to move him up to the front of the line.

Harry Price

We acknowledge the problem and we're very up front about it,

Nina Simmons

We have security stationed in front of the student areas, and we're telling them, Look, guys, here's the plan. We've got to get the visiting team out of here. We know you're going to rush the floor, but here's the path that we want to take to go onto the floor. We're going to open it up to you and just funnel you down this way.

Reggie Bush

What (the offensive line has) been able to do up front has been amazing.

Delroy Lindo

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.

Jeff Boogaart

When he gets the rebound, it's going the other way quick. Nobody stepped in front so he got all the way down to the goal.

Ryan Jones

We want players who don't give up. We want players who sacrifice everything for the name on the front of the jersey.

Betty Wright

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Andre Woodson

We're going to give it to the hot hand.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Bam Margera

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

Delta Burke

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Gina Lombardi

With the light-rail going in right next to us and all the development around, it makes our land a hot spot. You can't really stand in the way of it.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).

Shashi Tharoor

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Campbell Newman

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Timothy Ferriss

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

Christina Baker Kline

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

William Kamkwamba

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

Otto Rehhagel

I have been observing Samaras for quite a while and now was the appropriate time to select him.

Richard Jefferies

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Michael Korda

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

Yogi Berra

You can see a lot just by observing.

Werner Heisenberg

The very act of observing disturbs the system.

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

Catherine Helen Spence

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

Caitlin Thomas

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

David Brainerd

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

Alexandre Dumas

It is only the dead who do not return.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Dean Koontz

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Kid Cudi

I'm not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it to where it's more of a reimagining of a track. The songs that I do utilize samples on, most of it you wouldn't even be able to tell what it was unless I told you.

Donald Brownlee

When you have the samples in hand, it's a whole different universe.

Charlene Schultz

And you get to sample from the new olds.

Chris Pratt

Just be comfortable with who you are.

Richard Ebright

The samples can be used as seed stock for any biologist.

Dick Thompson

This is not confirmation for us. We need to have samples sent to a certified laboratory.

Buffalo Bill

I could never resist the call of the trail.

Edward Gorey

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

Sean Salisbury

When you see yourself on a trailer at the movie theatre, you're kind of like, 'What? Man, this is amazing!' And it's a pretty significant role.

Charles Bona

I don't know whether you have 'anti-social' trails here,

Francis Parkman

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

Casey Wilson

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

Kevin Collier

It will actually be on two flatbed trailers and will be able to go wherever they need us to go.

William James

The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.

Stanley Clarke

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Casey Affleck

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

Audre Lorde

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

Maggie Q

You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

Austin Carlile

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

Tyra Banks

I don't wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones - I paint them on!

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Paul Begala

no one will wake up Nov. 8 and not know what they were getting.

Conan O'Brien

Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.

Andrew Rannells

I can't wake up at all without caffeine.