Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

Elbert Hubbard

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Jill Buford

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Kathy Miles

So he wrote on a little yellow piece of paper, 'Les Miles.'

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Jamey Wright

We have the pieces to the puzzle. We have a lot of weapons.

Kathay Lovell

We've been down this road before with non-performance of redevelopment property. I don't want to go down that road again. That's a valuable piece of property.

Unknown

May your glasses be ever full. May the roof over your heads be always strong. And may you be in heaven Half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Unknown

May you have food and raiment, a soft pillow for your head, May you be forty years in heaven before the devil knows you're dead.

Unknown

May you be in heaven an hour, before the Devil knows your dead.

Irish Blessings

May you be fourty years in heaven before the devil knows your dead.

Unknown

May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind be ever at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rain fall soft upon your fields, And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand. And may you be in Heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

John Gardner

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

Albert Speer

One seldom recognizes the devil when he has his hand on your shoulder.

William Shakespeare

O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.

John Glover

Now that I'm on TV, I can't gluttonize as much as I would like. Even the devil has to watch his weight.

John Luke

Front desk clerks at Hilton are generally empowered to listen to any reasonable request. We probably wouldn't treat you to a $500 dinner for two, but if you're walked from the New York Hilton and Towers, we might take you over in our limo to a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Stephen Breyer

I would guess my law clerks could meet (that standard) every day,

Sugata Mitra

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,

Dana Williams

We've been working as fast as we can since Feb. 1. But it's a 30- to 60-day process. I know the clerks are under a lot of pressure. This has just been perfect storm situation.

Albert Einstein

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

Brian Frosh

The real issue at this point is Joe Steffen confirmed what they have denied all the way through this, which is they were firing file clerks and secretaries to make room for people they wanted to get jobs for, ... They were using those low-level jobs as patronage.

Rick Warren

I hope that the community will cooperate and not hassle the clerks with what they have to do. It's a good store and serves a good need to the community.

Fredric March

An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.