Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

David H. Murdock

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

Dave Barry

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

David Suzuki

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Buffalo Bill

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

Carole King

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

Bryan Davis

Too much information will make your brain choke.

Bryan Procter

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

Catherynne M. Valente

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

Charles Dickens

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

Charles Dickens

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Agnes Repplier

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Agnes Repplier

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Ben Affleck

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

Brian Tracy

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

Daniel Handler

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Barbara Kingsolver

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

Ayelet Waldman

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

Charles Spurgeon

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

David Brainerd

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

Charles Spurgeon

When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

Adrian Rogers

There can be no mercy without truth.

Catherine McAuley

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

Conrad Black

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Duane Chapman

Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.