Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bennett

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

Chris Cleave

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

Jack Ryan

The people who daily serve Winston-Salem, day in and day out in public service - and their families who suffer the risk of always worrying - you are the heroes.

Gretchen Rubin

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.

Mark Harmon

We're going to evaluate him on a daily basis. The earliest he could be back (for a game) would be Friday.

Anthony Trollope

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Scott Carpenter

Mac users have not been forced to deal with the storm of viruses and vulnerabilities that Windows users deal with on a daily basis, so they tend to feel that they are safer than their Windows counterparts.

Sue Monk Kidd

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

Edwidge Danticat

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

Alan Guth

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

Alan Guth

The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science -- everything can be created from nothing...it is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Alan Greenspan

The free lunch has still to be invented.

Charles Krauthammer

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.

Denzel Washington

When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe.In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California.here's been a tremendous amount of change.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

Charles M. Schwab

If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.

Bill Maher

You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money.

Charles Simonyi

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

Catherynne M. Valente

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

Bobby Jones

I got an extra hour's nap.

Demetri Martin

I find that a shirt is most similar to a napkin when I don't have a napkin.

Augusten Burroughs

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

Adam Carolla

Figure out what to do, then take a nap.

Aaron Levie

I don't use many apps. I use naps.

Robert Vaughn

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

Silvio Berlusconi

Only Napoleon did more than me. But I'm taller than him.

Flip Saunders

We'll run our offense. We'll run our plays. That'll be the most relaxing time that I'll have at the All-Star Game, when they're on the floor.

Donald Reid

Even if that's all you can squeeze in, it will be a relaxing treat,

Marc Guggenheim

Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.

Sherry Mowatt

It's very relaxing to just sit and watch them. It really is.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.