Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Charles Caleb Colton

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

Byron Katie

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

Earl Weaver

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Barbra Streisand

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

Benjamin Hoff

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Charles Darwin

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

Alan Paton

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

Al Pacino

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Andrew Coates

Venus provides an extreme test for the atmospheric physics models that we have for Earth.

Kevin Baines

Venus has a lot of lessons to teach the Earth about how things could go awry.

Allan Paull

Ultimately we hope to be able to use it to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit.

David Mitchell

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

David Sze

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

David Suzuki

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

David Suzuki

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Bill Rodgers

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Bill Johnson

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Deepak Chopra

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Baltasar Gracian

Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.

Bill O'Reilly

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Kevin Wilson

We want excellence in every area. We don't want excuses.

Benjamin Franklin

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

William Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Craig Johnson

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

A. R. Ammons

To be saved is here, local and mortal

Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Julie Gerberding

You may see the mortality rate go up -- but that's not necessarily because SARS per se is getting worse,

E. B. White

No trial has ever shown before a reduction in severe mortality with a new anti-malarial drug.

Menander

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Diane Setterfield

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Beyonce Knowles

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.