Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Clarke

When they think of pigeons they think of something wild.

William Shakespeare

Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

Claude Chabrol

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

Alan Alda

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

William Shakespeare

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares...

Jessye Norman

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

May Sarton

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

Grover Norquist

Having been duke, you don't go be peasant again.

Anna Kournikova

Wear them with peasant dresses, or tuck them into jeans.

Ilka Chase

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

G. M. Trevelyan

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Louis Pasteur

Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman

Pablo Picasso

Basically the French are all peasants.

Wallace Stevens

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

Charles Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Diane Johnson

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

Denis Diderot

Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit to your characters, but know instead how to put them in situations which will make them witty.

Edgar Allan Poe

The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are.

Edsger Dijkstra

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

William Shakespeare

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

Ayn Rand

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,