Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Pound

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Tony Stewart

Like I said after we won the Brickyard 400, ... if I die tomorrow, when I wake up, I've had a great life to this point.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

Life is a long dream and when you die you wake-up from the nightmare.

Mark Twain

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Make sure that our state doesn't get into the same mess that San Diego got into,

Jeff Taylor

Let's live to be 100 or die trying.

Bill Rodgers

Let your running lead you to your diet.

Evan Osnos

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

Richard Flanagan

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Nancy Walker

Mainly, we just want the green space with the openness,

Ted Purdy

Low scores are going to happen with no wind. There's no rough, and the greens are perfect.

Ian Shepherdson

Mr. Greenspan has all but ruled out a May tightening.

Jim Zorn

Matt was tremendously talented, but wild. He would come in and say, 'This is how we did it in Green Bay,' and wasn't very receptive to change.

Chris Evans

I can't read greens and she won us shots.

Bernard Baumohl

On the other hand, Greenspan seems satisfied that his tightening has had a lasting effect. He's likely to stand pat for the rest of the year.

Patrick Quinn

I would have been less surprised if little green men walked in.

Mike Boles

She's a special player. She's not one-dimensional. She looks for her teammates. Sometimes it's hard to take all those shots but she has the green light. She's very unselfish.

John Markell

I'd like to host one someday. It's a wonderful event. I think they knew the level of support they would get from the people of Green Bay, and to be able to pull something like this off and put hockey at the forefront, for a day at least, is great.

Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Bart Stupak

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

John Harper

We want to try to get a better understanding of the lakes and their relation to the groundwater.

Charlaine Harris

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

Bob Balaban

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

Benjamin Millepied

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Rick Ott

Lakes with low populations use secondary sites. That is how they maintain their small populations.

Nick Nuttall

Lakes are the lifeblood of millions and millions of Africans,

Allen Tate

I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....

Aaron Eckhart

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

Dennis Hastert

We need to look at this in a comprehensive way, ... There is no magic wand to wave over this.

Doug Henning

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

Larry Coyer

I don't have a magic answer. If you play cornerback in this league, they're going to get you once in a while.

Ron Taffel

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Lilla Crawford

One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.

Lene Hau

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

Rupert Grint

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

Aaron Allston

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Rosa Parks

You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene -- just a very special person,

Edgar Allan Poe

If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

Author unknown

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!

Abraham Lincoln

I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Dick Cheney

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.

Steve Segadelli

We have trouble with Skyline switching man-to-man, and I don't know why.

Sherlock Holmes

Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.

Chogyam Trungpa

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Camille Pissarro

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

Arthur Rimbaud

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

Chris Frantz

When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy Super Sport and drive me down along the Ohio River to Cincinnati to hear some rock 'n' roll. Those were exciting times, and the bands would play late into the night, rocking soaked in sweat. When I hear the Ready Stance, these memories come back to me and I remember that Cincinnati has produced so many wonderful musicians. The Ready Stance is among that number. You will be hearing a lot about them in the future.

Charles Spurgeon

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Charles Morgan

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

Dennis Quaid

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

Deborah Smith

Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of a pleasure and privilege to know her as a person as it is to translate her work. She's been over for two UK publicity tours, which means lots of time to chat on trains etc., and she was hear all last summer for a writer's residency in Norwich, where I got to meet her son too.

Deborah Smith

I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis.

Dean Smith

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

Edgar Allan Poe

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.