Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas More

Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips!

James Graham

Let them bestow on every airth a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake - Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these

Bret Ellis

My father's ashes were kept in a safe deposit box for a long time,

Thomas Gray

On some fond breast the parting soul relies,/ Some pious drops the closing eye requires; / E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Carol Burnett

She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I know she is here tonight because she loved bluegrass.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, if the shaven-headed ones do not bathe, then seven handfuls of ashes are upon their heads.

Alan Stern

Some of Clyde's ashes are on their way to Pluto today.

Ian Bell

If we can regain the Ashes with their best team on the park, that would be perfect for us.

Iris Evans

We're not closing the door to looking at the insurance-based model for one part or for several parts of the health-care system,

Joe Aiello

Letting teams back into games that we should be closing out has nothing to do with who we are playing and the level of competition. Every game we should be trying to improve and do what we do better whether we are playing Clovis West or Fresno High.

Harley Shaiken

Losing 30,000 jobs, closing 14 plants, has enormous consequences not just for the union, but for the future of their members. It is a major blow.

Jeff Backus

My first preference would be to test the market, without closing the door on coming back. I feel I have earned the opportunity to explore my options.

Jean Killy

Of course, not everything is finished yet and the IOC will continue to worry until after the closing ceremony, just as we do at every Olympic Games. The remaining test events will give the games organizers vital opportunities to further improve on plans that have been drawn up for the venues now being completed.

Abel Oshevire

One was detained yesterday and the other two on Monday. I think we are closing in on them, we are closing in on the kidnappers.

Ethan Harris

More and more of the job losses are in industries that are effectively closing down domestically. This has been a gradual process since the 1950s, but it seems to have accelerated.

Tony Lesiak

May be the San Martin mine might be closing a year earlier than expected. It's a modest negative.

Bill Gates

Now the growth in the last year in Europe was very rapid and so you can say the gap is closing a bit. But I think it's still an issue of great concern. A lot of kids graduate from college in Europe without having the in-depth exposure that most U.S. students receive. So there's work to be done.

David McLean

I can tell you that we're not planning any price drops on Xbox 360 this year at all. The product doesn't need it.

John Updike

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

Chuck D.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

George Foreman

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

Idris Elba

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

Peter Jackson

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

Ramy Attalla

We can be a stand-alone solution or a safety-net for when Medicare drops coverage, either way it's a soft landing.

Saddam Hussein

I am trying to extinguish the fire with few drops of water.

Michael Strahan

He's confident. He can see it right now every time he takes a snap and drops back.

Alexandra Adornetto

Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.

Ben Pimlott

Like Diana, she had a twinkle in her eye and a lot of rapport with the public.

Erich Fromm

Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

O. Singh

Let us remember our Lord and Master in contemplation, and keep a watchful eye on the Path.

Jim Cole

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant

Kazi Shams

Love gives eyes to see what the eye without love can't see

John Donne

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which too long have dwelt on thee

Sharyn Stein

Senator Reid is focused on passing real, comprehensive reform. He feels we should keep our eye on that goal.

Danny White

Seder is a kicker we had our eyes on,

Archibald Hill

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

Rachael Woods

So many kids come here for their first time. We offer that warm, friendly atmosphere. It's the type of place where you come visit and leave with some fond memories.

John Dryden

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

David Toms

Obviously, I'm fond of it. It's a great golf course, and I've had success playing it.

Marshall Curry

Full Frame is where I had the first showing of my first film, 'Street Fight.' I have a fond memory of pacing around outside the theater, nervously trying to keep from throwing up. It's a magical festival, well curated, with a warm and generous spirit.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

If we ever have free time, my partner and I are fond of going on walks through the local state forests and parks.

Alice McDermott

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

Jim McLaughlin

I have a fond place in my heart for Arcadia and always will. I am a small-town guy and I love Arcadia.

Oliver Goldsmith

O Memory, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain

Richard P. Feynman

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Ian Mckellen

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

Toshihiko Fukui

Second-quarter GDP was revised upwards, representing the well-balanced nature of the recovery in Japan's economy,

J. Taylor

Now, we're going to look at see what was the nature of the service disruption.

Edgar Allan Poe

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Brenda Strong

I must have Haley Joel Osment as my agent, because he only sees dead parts

Kevin Towers

Parting ways with Peach and Davey is difficult,

Steve Burtt

That's the reality of it. We don't talk about it but it's in the back of our heads. We know we're parting ways.

David McCullough

It was like the parting of the seas." ()

John Dryden

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

John Dryden

In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin

Albert Schweitzer

Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.

Charles Spurgeon

You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.

Charles Spurgeon

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Charles Spurgeon

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

Charles R. Swindoll

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

Dennis Quaid

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Democritus

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Edgar Allan Poe

Lord help my poor soul.

Albert Schweitzer

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

Dennis Flanagan

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

Edgar Allan Poe

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

David Brenner

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Randy Cross

One voice is the only way to go.

Charles Spurgeon

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Charles Olson

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Denis Johnson

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

Debra Wilson

Voice is my instrument.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

Bartlett Sher

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Dirk Benedict

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.