Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Moya

It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

C. Wright Mills

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

William Shakespeare

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

Juvenal

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal

Everything in Rome has its price.

Benjamin Tucker

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Dave Barry

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

Jamie Lee Curtis

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

Elizabeth Scott

And yet here I am. Broken and bleeding on the inside, heartsick, I am here.

Anton Chekhov

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

Arvo Part

Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

Bob Dylan

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...

Bruce Lee

Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?

Billy Corgan

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

Aldous Huxley

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

C. S. Lewis

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

Agnetha Faltskog

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

Agnes Varda

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

Agnes Repplier

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

Charles de Gaulle

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

Charles de Gaulle

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

Charles Dickens

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

Charles Caleb Colton

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.