Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Richard Rhodes

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

George Gurdjieff

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Tom Foreman

So many decisions of the Supreme Court have been made in the vacuum as to when life begins ... and it belies the scientific facts, the medical facts, that are out there today,

John Walsh

Men are simple minded. The fact that women can't understand them, begins to show just how complex they are...

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Della Reese

One of the things I learned from Mahalia Jackson was how to communicate with people through song, ... The communication begins inside of you, then it is brought out to the people.

Jack Handey

Love is not something that you can put chains on and throw into a lake. That's called Houdini. Love is liking someone a lot. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Mike Doyle

McDonald's and other restaurant chains are going to have to get the message out to consumers that if chicken is properly cooked, it's safe. If they get on it soon, the economic risk will be minimized. I'd do it right now.

Bill Archer

More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare,

Lin Shaye

I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.'

Adoniram Judson

O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.

Kevin Fletcher

She had dog chains all over (the yard) where she had them tied. Dogs were running loose all over. There was lice all over. It was pretty bad. Took us two years to clean it.

Nico Mirallegro

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.

Vivek Wadhwa

My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don't skip college. But go to a school that you can afford. You'll be freed from the chains of debt and succeed on your own ambition and merit.

Big Sean

Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.

Rick Perlstein

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

Gina Bellman

My average day on 'Leverage' starts at 5 A. M. and ends 12 to 14 hours later. An hour drive to the set and back sometimes makes the day unbearably long. You have to grab a few minutes to yourself where you can.

Billie Holiday

Money, you have lots of friends hanging round the door. When it's gone and the spending ends They don't come no more.

Ken Holland

My hope is that he ends up in a Red Wings uniform - however long it takes,

English Proverb

Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb

English Proverbs

Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.

Ron Wilson

Obviously it's great for Cheech, but the key is to win the game and he ends up with another game-winner.

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Eleanor Porter

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

Albert Schweitzer

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

William Shakespeare

Murder's out of tune, and sweet revenge grows harsh

Diane Keaton

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

William Cox

From what I've seen, it works pretty well. It maintains hair and probably grows some hair back.

William Butler Yeats

Oh, who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?

Chris Christie

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

Scott Stapp

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Bear Grylls

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Troy Bell

Obviously we have some issues to iron out.

Dean Young

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

Elinor Glyn

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

Abdul Kalam

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Graeme Dott

I got some luck in the last frame, which I thought was ironic because I thought I might win then.

Mark Zalin

I didn't get a preseason to iron out our lineup. We were playing matches before we had an official practice.

Alexandra Adornetto

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

Gregory Miller

We know that arsenic likes to stick to iron oxides, various kinds of rust,

Rich Harden

You did see a little of everything. That's why I need more games. I still have to iron out some mechanics. That's the big thing.

Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Jane Austen

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Aleksandar Hemon

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Anthony Hopkins

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Daniel Kahneman

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Jane Hirshfield

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Evan Esar

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

Evan Esar

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

William Shakespeare

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Enrique Pena Nieto

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Mitch Leigh

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

Mark Brunell

Obviously, it's been a long time since he's been in the playoffs, but he is used to winning in the playoffs.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.