Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beeban Kidron

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

B. B. King

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

B. B. King

I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

B. B. King

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Big Sean

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

Big Sean

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

C. S. Lewis

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

C. S. Lewis

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

C. S. Lewis

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

C. S. Lewis

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Carrie Brownstein

I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

George Herbert

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot

Charles Kingsley

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

Charles Darwin

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

C. S. Lewis

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

Eddie Vedder

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

Aeschylus

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

Abraham Cowley

To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.