Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Charles Dickens

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

Charles Dickens

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Alan Watts

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

Alan Watts

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Alan Watts

"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."

Alan Rickman

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Alan Watts

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

Billy Gibbons

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Edith Sitwell

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

Audrina Patridge

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

Benjamin Watson

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.

Diane Ackerman

Our skin is what stands between us and the world.

Demi Lovato

I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin.

Alan Watts

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

David Brin

Change is the very fabric of our time.

Denis Waitley

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Anne Stillman

We want to preserve as much of the historic fabric as is possible.

Charles Ives

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Arundhati Roy

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Billy Corgan

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Ralph Lauren

The fabrics, whether it be hand-painted prints at the end, or whether it be new knits and stretch fabrics ... sort of make the whole world.

Liberty Ross

I love the fabric of Genetic jeans. There's a softness. I always travel in them. It feels like you're in like your most comfortable pajamas.