Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Robert Gottlieb

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Proverb

The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it

John McNulty

The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat

Drew Henson

The Cowboys will look to make a Thanksgiving feast out of Chicago's poor run defense. ...

Brandon Short

The Cowboys kicked our butt. They executed better than we did. I never would have expected it.

Jerry Jones

The Cowboys have tried to be visible from a long way back, before it was necessarily in vogue. You know, it's easy to talk the talk, but it's another thing to actually get out and put the plan in place.

Joe Theismann

The Cowboys have to draft a quarterback. What happens if Bledsoe gets hurt?

John Riggins

The Cowboys have a so-and-so record (something terrific) in games in which Emmitt Smith has gone over 100 yards.

Ed Koch

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Eve Plumb

I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I've done all the 'Brady Bunch' stuff except for the Variety Show, but when a talk show wants us all to get together for their sake, it's not interesting to me.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Keith Jarrett

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Tom Wolfe

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Russell Potts

We have similar backgrounds in many instances, ... We have never been reluctant to take on the Establishment, so to speak, and we've been forthright in our objections to the so-called 'Good Ole Boy' network.

Larry Beck

She represents the history and tradition set forth by the Sisters of Mercy.

Jon Wilson

Mimi's races were great. Watching her go back and forth in the lead was exciting.

Tom Benson

So it went back and forth to see what could be done. The Alamodome has some restrictions on what games could be here. LSU had restrictions, too. So it was a lot of conversations about different games.

Henry Hughes

She wasn't as forthright as she could have been, ... When something like this happens, someone has to be able to stand up and say, 'You know what? We didn't do the right thing here, and now we are going to make it better.'

Kevin Taylor

We're hoping that someone would come forth with info about this. We think that it could be possibly sitting in someone's garage and someone is likely to know about that.

Jules Verne

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

Bible Bible

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

Carol Moseley Braun

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Alan Keyes

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

Charles Caleb Colton

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Gary Loveman

Ultimately, we're just here to get our money back. We don't wish Mr Stewart any ill will. He was paid a lot of money to do something he did not do. It's merely a contractual matter.

Jason Chaffetz

Straw purchasing is illegal.

Alan Watts

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

William Congreve

Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fitThat impudence and malice pass for wit.

Elie Wiesel

No human being is illegal.

Elie Wiesel

How can a human being be illegal?

Thomas Blood

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

Ed Smith

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Plaxico Burress

The regular season is here now so you don't have time to worry about none of that anyway, ... You've just got to go out and you've got to make it right. You can't sit back and say 'Oh, we've got time.'

Marcello Canuto

Site Q was proposed to be in one place, then in another place. There were all these candidates, but none of them really panned out.

Don Brash

She is talking some of the talk, but walking none of the walk.

Kenny Perry

We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Kenny Perry

We're just going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Carlos Fuentes

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours. Upon his engagement to Johanne Osthof of Brunswick; they married 9 Oct 1805.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Agnes Varda

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

Agnes Repplier

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Charlotte Bronte

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Bronte

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Charlotte Bronte

This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.

Charlotte Bronte

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Ron Williams

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Larry Moore

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

Angela King

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

Larry Hawkins

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

David Brown

It went through trees before it got into the city.

Jason Rogers

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Richard G. Scott

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Cher Lloyd

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Ben Harper

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Lester Holt

But now I'm kind of like, 'Gee, I can't wait to watch it to see how it turns out.'

Peter Boockvar

This weapons thing really turns up the heat.

Charlotte Bronte

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Djuna Barnes

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Dave Gorman

I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Carlos Castaneda

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

Agnes Repplier

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Jane Austen

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

Edmund Spenser

Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.