Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Daniel

Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho.

Algernon Swinburne

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Isabella Bird

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Chip Conley

The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic day on the L.A. freeways. But, thankfully, we live in an era in which neuroscientists are teaching us about the malleability of our brain and the emotionally contagious nature of our workplaces.

Alexander MacLaren

'The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

Alexander MacLaren

''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

Henry Cabot Lodge

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.

Billy Beane

The perfect guy either might not be out there or beyond our (financial) means.

Herb Vincent

The people who met today aren't the people who work out the nitty-gritty details to make things happen. LSU will obviously be reimbursed for expenses and would not suffer financial losses from this arrangement. Beyond that, not a lot of details have been settled. They will emerge in the days to come.

Paul Kemp

There are some disasters beyond comprehension, and I think this is one of them.

Mark Kiesel

We still think inflation will be contained. The reality is the economy is going to slow sharply over the next three to six months, and that should keep the Fed from hiking beyond May.

Josh Bolten

We're in a transitional period, and I want to make sure I have a team in place that is with us for, at a minimum, the remainder of this year and to some extent beyond that.

Matt Lawton

We started out by looking at profitability, but we found by talking with partners, they viewed their business performance in a number of dimensions that goes beyond simple net profits.

Nico Melendez

Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.

Tom Rath

When you tell people at a convention that you're from New Hampshire, they tend to hold on to your hand a little longer and look into your eyes a little deeper, ... But beyond that, there was no overt, 'Are you with me if I go?'

Michael Dell

We're not going to provide any visibility beyond what we provided for the first quarter.

Steve Sweat

We started to get cold down the stretch.

Dan Castellaneta

Where is Bart, anyway? His dinner is getting all cold and eaten

Sally Singer

When you think of somewhere really cold for inspiration, you eventually get to Russia.

David Remnick

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

Malik Peiris

What the study finds is that the impact of influenza in this case, on hospitalizations in Hong Kong ... is very similar to that documented in colder countries.

Charles Buxton

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Jeret Peterson

When we were all down and out, having the worst time of our lives -- we were cold and we were miserable -- Emily was bawling, but she still had a smile on her face. Emily is one of the most positive people I know.

Martin Rees

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.

Peter Beutel

We're going to see huge price increases, particularly for Midwestern home owners this winter; and if it's a cold winter they will be really hurting. They are already looking at price increases of 40 to 80 percent.

Keith Bowman

The positive share price reaction is a result of investor perception that the sum of the parts is worth more than the current combined businesses.

David Yen

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

Alan Mulally

We also solidified the transformation of our product line, and the market validated our strategy with every order during the year. Our new portfolio of airplanes from 100 to 450 seats, combined with our global support services, put us in a great position for the long term.

Tanith Belbin

We're so glad to be a part of this generation of ice dancing. It's a combined score.

Harley Shaiken

What's new about the global economy is First World productivity combined with Third World wages. That can create some real downward pressure on high-wage countries.

Duane Campbell

With their combined knowledge, it's just incredible . . . I'm learning something new every day,

Bill Watkins

With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

Ken Davis

Make your trips count too, don't do too many short trips try to combined the trips into one longer trip.

Ted Rogers

When you're able to offer the customer a whole wide range of communications products, it's more attractive, ... The world is moving toward bundles and combined packaging, and not single products.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Luke Pasqualino

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Mark Potok

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Louise Leakey

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

Jonathan Schwartz

Most of us are only tuned in to distant stations where all kinds of things are happening to other people. We listen through the static to their heartbreaks as if we were in some well-protected receiving chamber.

J. Perelman

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring

Bruce Jackson

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

Neville Chamberlain

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Nostradamus

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Emily Stoecker

Mr. Cullen, you look distant and aloof. But I know my words are entering you're disturbed mind.

David Newman

I encountered a lot of people who were very distant and uncommunicative and misleading and self-contradictory. On the other hand, I did find doctors who were extraordinary and remarkable.

Tim Bell

I have been growing daylilies since 1982. I received my first plants from a distant relative, and the following spring, I was hooked,

Dan Hendricks

The only edge I know is I've been around turns twice and he hasn't.

Lily Koppel

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

John Fitzgerald

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

DeMarcus Nelson

We have to get better. We have to establish that edge and fire in each and every one of us. People put out there that we're invincible and each loss out there kind of hits us over our head.

Charlie Munger

It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.

Cedrick Wilson

We're just on the edge of exploding. We're leaving a lot of plays out there on the football field, a lot of them, and, if we make those plays, you'll be talking about how we're overachieving right now. We're just one play away from opening this thing up, and I hope that it happens.

Ralph Johnson

(Manhattan) is on the edge of very explosive growth.

Stefan Hell

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Roger Simon

So far the hunters have taken 3,000 to 4,000 seals. That's not ridiculously slow, but it's not fast either. It's the lower edge of the norm.

Ken Macha

A lot of drama. Not for the faint of heart.

Dot Matthews

That's not a level for the faint of heart.

Walter Johnson

I've had people swing at me, ... I've had people faint on me. I had one man, he just kept pushing me. He just wanted to make sure he wasn't having a dream.

Delores Conway

Investing overseas is not for the faint of heart. You have to be willing to move with changes.

Joan Skaaland

I'm not sure where we're going to go from here. We've already spent well over $100,000. ... The legal system is not for the faint of heart, financially.

David Cole

This is not a place for weaklings or the faint of heart. It's a rugged part of the business.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Dickens

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Al Lopez

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Charles Dickens

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Charles Dickens

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Larry Walker

We were at triple-match point, now we are at double- match point, to use a tennis term, but we still have a steep hill to climb,

Alan Lowe

When we got to the hill at the (American) Legion, that got to me, ... That was emotional.

Jim Erickson

With the rovers we've actually been able to go look and pick the things we wanted to see whether it was up on top of hills or whether it was down inside the craters, you name it.

Brian Giles

We knew what Jake was going through even before he took the hill for us,

John Lieswyn

Make no mistake. These are the steepest hills that we race in America.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits. The Lunarians have been described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement. For example, Bragellos avers their anatomical identity with Man, but Professor Newcomb says they are more like the hill tribes of Vermont.

Doug Donovan

We're looking to get comfortably through April. As for May, we'll see. Last year, I made turns on this hill on May 15 on all-natural snow.

Barbara Mikulski

Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.

Keith Cole

We have really pushed them to get stronger on the hills and running longer distances. This race, in my mind, really showed that the training is starting to pay off handsomely.

Niger Innis

We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

Christopher Koch

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Iyad Allawi

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

Louis C. K.

Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary.

Jane Lindskold

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

Nicholas Eberstadt

To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn,

Anne Miller

AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,

Mark Johnson

It was so important that this not be an imaginary land.

Rickie Lee Jones

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Graham Boyd

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.

William Gilbert

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no nobility with bad manners.

Curtis Mayfield

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

Albert Chee

We are continually working to get the refinery back up in as quick and as safe a manner as we can.

Alan McCoy

We are operating in a manner that we unfortunately must do, under the circumstances." ()

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Sidney Altman

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Alain Robert

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Al Stewart

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

China Mieville

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

Cheyenne Jackson

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

Carl Sagan

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

Armistead Maupin

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Joe Thornton

There are a lot of distractions with homecoming. Hopefully, we can shelter them as much as we can from that.

Charles R. Swindoll

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Alice Morse Earle

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Alice Munro

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

David Spade

Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

Aloe Blacc

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

Frederick Douglass

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

Casey Abrams

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Bob Mould

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Elizabeth Olsen

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Chad Smith

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Cher Lloyd

I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.

Charles Ives

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Bob Black

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Bill Laswell

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Beth Gibbons

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Charles Spurgeon

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Alan Watts

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Al Madrigal

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

David Graeber

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Cab Calloway

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.

Catherynne M. Valente

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

M. Thompson

When they're still on a ventilator and under a warming blanket,

Sven Butenschon

He would do it before a game, like when some of us would warm up in the gym.

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

Geoff Coulson

The weather has been pretty amazing. It's much warmer than normal.

Mike Hargrove

I probably would not use him for more than one inning. And if I got him warming up in the bullpen, I'd want to get him in the game.

Irving Berlin

I've got my love to keep me warm.

Emeka Okafor

It made me feel real special, all warm inside,

Spider Robinson

It's always coldest before the warm.

Anurag Kashyap

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

Robin Wright

I'm ready to do a Woody Allen comedy.

Julie Delpy

If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.