Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Whittier

Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,/ But spare your country's flag,' she said./ A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,/ Over the face of the leader came.

Judy Wade

Let's face it, she's not in the first blush of youth, ... And she hasn't had a face-lift like rich U.S. women would have.

Charles Dickens

The question about everything was, would it bring a blush to the cheek of a young person?

Ansel Elgort

When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.

Nicholas Rowe

From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses.

Thomas Gray

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

John Coffee

There is no blushing when it comes to making these demands, as long as management is only negotiating with the compensation committee and not with shareholders.

Craig Bandoroff

He's a very nice horse, correct, a good mover. He's not a big horse. He kind of looks like his pedigree. She (his dam) is a Blushing Groom mare. I'd be surprised if he didn't go over well.

Calvin Klein

There are shades of buff, nude and lots of blue, ... I was thinking of eye-shadow colors and blush and lip colors. There's peach, pink -- lots of blue, actually -- and lots of gray.

Damien Chazelle

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Robert Morris

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Steve Lacy

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Cecilia Bartoli

Performing this music here, where he was born, in a way you feel 'Oh, this is what Mozart saw, this is what Mozart was breathing; the air, the atmosphere'.

Michael Luxner

This is the first time we've ever done Mozart outdoors.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Eddie Van Halen

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text,

Christy Mathewson

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

David Benioff

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Ronda Rousey

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

David Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Monica Johnson

Somehow many have fallen into the belief that being a Christian is supposed to be a cake-walk. It's not.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Fred Taylor

There are theories that suggest that. But we need a much better understanding before we can know about things.

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.

Abheek Barua

There is nothing to suggest that would be the trend.

Joseph Powers

Irrigation is being done on the (town hall) mall, so I would suggest French's Common,

Mary Wesley

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Malcolm Bradbury

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Emile Coue

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.