Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fra Giocondo

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Laurence Hope

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Melvin Van

So I told everyone that I was making a porno film, ... Because the only films they (the union people) didn't bother (to check on) were porno films because that was beneath them.

Peter Frenzen

Mount St. Helens certainly reminds us of the power of nature, and we can certainly see that in the evidence of the 1980 eruption that's all around us, ... And here we just have an opportunity to see sort of another chapter in its history and to understand the forces that lie beneath our feet.

Emily Bronte

...my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being...

Dottie Kastigar

One of the toughest jobs we have is convincing some people that we're not making up this problem. The homeless out here may be harder to see, but they are all around, right beneath the surface.

Rebecca Davis

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .

Rudyard Kipling

Of all the trees that grow so fair, / Old England to adorn, / Greater are none beneath the Sun, / Than Oak and Ash and Thorn.

Jonathan Chen

No one has the road of life mapped out. We pave away what's beneath our feet. If it leads to happiness, maybe someone will walk on.

Fran Wallis

Ginger is delicate and fragile, and Ginger is looking for her partner. So it fit.

William Wordsworth

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And humble cares, and delicate fears;A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;And love and thought and joy.

Ryan Murphy

I didn't want it to feel like a slasher movie, ... I wanted it to be a little more kabuki and delicate and weird.

C. L. R. James

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

Howard Staunton

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.

Philip Schultz

I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.

M. Thompson

This was a sacred day ù a very delicate kind of thing. There was that little period where there was a no-fly zone on this subject matter, with a few exceptions. Probably now, enough time has passed and we're getting new perspective on this.

Jimmy Cliff

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.

Bob Stein

Love him or hate him, he's no fool. He's realized he may have lost his leadership post, but with the trial he faces losing much more than that. He may not be as focused on keeping his House seat as he has been.

Billy Hatcher

New names, new faces and just getting back into the groove of things.

Charles R. Swindoll

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

Edgar Allan Poe

And I fell violently on my face.

Eileen Caddy

Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs

Edward Heath

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

David Bowie

Turn and face the strange.

Cameron Crowe

I was fortunate to work with actors who loved music too. Just seeing what it would do to their manner and their faces was great and it helped give the story a little more soul.

Rafael Benitez

If we have new faces all the players think we need to work harder because they want to play,

John Burnside

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Johnny Grant

We have lost one of the finest gentlemen this industry ever knew,

Gordon B. Hinckley

Some of our finest work comes through service to others.

Steve Young

We had some of the finest musicians in Nashville contributing to this album.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Louise Nurding

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

Eileen collins

The people that I have worked with have just been superb, just the finest professionals, people who truly love the space program.

A.J. Feeley

Last year, things were a little different than they are now, ... I guess if you're going to look for reasons, look for excuses, I guess you could say those.

Joe Hart

Modern technology ... I guess it does do some good.

Ferdi Heyneke

Monday was a very big day but the market is volatile and I guess there was some profit taking but industrials and some insurers are stable.

Joe Torre

My guess would be that this would be it.

Bob Mann

My guess is you can see this over and done within perhaps no more than a year.

R. Inge

My guess is that we'll see a strong opening here on the back of our strong resource market. We are a nation of rocks and trees.

Phil Dow

My guess is that value will have its day,

Dawn Willey

My guess is that's going to be an $8- to $10-million building.

Yossi Sheffi

My guess is that nobody is talking about this. I don't see a real level of preparedness within companies. In many ways, I don't think they even know what to do.

Dottie Kastigar

Lots of barns out here to hide in. And these are people who don't necessarily want to be found. They still have a lot of pride.

Britney Spears

Look, there's another kid hiding from his parents,

Rig Veda

One should never lie to hide one's mistake.

Alexander Pope

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.

John Galliano

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Tom Bailey

I have a problem with the idea of putting something in the paper that makes us a part of hiding something from the parents.

Thomas Kinkade

She was my high school sweetheart. I hide an 'N' in every painting.

Kristin Runger

If they can look at somebody else's report, they could hide things better.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

Martha Beck

Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

Ed Garland

His oath should have been, 'I Tony Harwood swear to lie, I say you should reject Tony Harwood 100 percent. Throw him out. He ain't worth nothing.

Fernando Rospigliosi

He can't be believed. He's a man who lies systematically.

George H. W. Bush

...Whatever the road that lies ahead, that road will take me home.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

Elbert Hubbard

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Edward Abbey

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Deepak Chopra

An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.

David Nicholls

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Ryan Scolpini

She's pitched every time we've played. There will be no secrets there. They'll know she'll pitch.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Blake Lively

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

Jack Nance

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Anthony Hemingway

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Richard Engel

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Greg Rusedski

(John) McEnroe sees him in the top 20, I see him getting into the top 50 and then the top 20.

Bob Harris

Well, I think everyone kind of sees us as the sheriff, you know.

Charles Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Eleanor Catton

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Elizabeth Bowen

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Greta Garbo

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Charles Dudley Warner

Isolation breeds conceit.

Charles de Gaulle

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Charles Baudelaire

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Edith Wharton

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

John Keats

O cruelty, / To steal my Basil-pot away from me!

Robert Kiyosaki

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Jean Harlow

Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Maurice Anderson

I would steal anything I could so we could survive.

Robin Williams

What is a stealth bomber? It's a bomber that doesn't show up on radar, and you can't see it. Then we don't need one.

Henry George

Everybody works but the vacant lot