Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Charles Spurgeon

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Alan Watts

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rosenberg

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

Alan Paton

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Helen Sharman

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.

Bible Bible

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Michael Leunig

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.

John Fazio

Since the dawn of time actually since the early '80s the impacts to energy production for fish and wildlife constraints have always been calculated.

David Nicholls

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

Sathya Baba

Let the day dawn for you and others with thought of the Almighty, the Compassionate, and the Omnipresent self-knowing God. What greater service can you do to yourself and others? This will give you health and happiness.

Sarah Polley

So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.

Ben Carson

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Dan Peitz

If the track is muddy, that won't be a problem. I just don't want him out there if there is thunder and lightning.

Fadel Gheit

BP is more fat. Exxon is all muscle. Exxon stole the thunder this quarter.

John Bauer

Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure.

Ted Nugent

I can hear her thunder, she's coming after me, thunder thighs.

Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

Rio Ferdinand

It hit me like a thunderbolt!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.