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ancient bringing foot life rest
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together. John Pearson
ancient conjecture diana given originally portion rise temple
The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.
ancient fell love monastery surrounded
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
ancient ancient-history
I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum. Alan Titchmarsh
ancient move reason unless
Unless there's a reason to re-open ancient history, we should move on,
ancient arabic believed century greek hindus physical sought
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it. S. Jay Olshansky
ancient both classical four greek heart learned love modern speak terms took
I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway. Sarah Monette
ancient conditions
If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.
ancient codes common decisions derives distilled law life opponents purpose rather respect rules unchanged
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. George Will
beneath cannot ought sees wage
Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.
beneath cast covering generous gifts heavy judging life living remove ugly woven
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
beneath wind
She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings. Bill Cosby
beneath created creatures fact frightened ground heads run war
So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war. Gerald Scarfe
beneath fact hit hurricane poverty seen urban
The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, ... Poverty is right beneath the surface. Pedro Noguera
beneath beside dust grows less thy weed
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
beneath bother check films union
So I told everyone that I was making a porno film, ... Because the only films they (the union people) didn't bother (to check on) were porno films because that was beneath them.
beneath
She was beneath them, that was their perception.
beneath bother mccarthy science
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it. William Gibson
coming example money send though
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.
coming good people photo saying
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. Luke Pasqualino
coming concept great home leaves picked room sports understand
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. Michael Strahan
coming emotional love motivation stories true understand until
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. M. Night Shyamalan
coming crash drive earnings economy fact market nice numbers ought quarter second sentiment slowing sold stable terrific third
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.
coming housing negative numbers oil positive today worse
The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.
coming face move point society time turn
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. Mark Potok
coming defensive line pleasant practice question surprise
The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.
coming seeing side
We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.
deem people perfectly pursue willing work
I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve. Tommy Lee Jones
deem foreign necessary schedule staged troops work
We deem it necessary to work out a schedule for the staged withdrawal of foreign troops Vladimir Putin
deem equally life likely vastly
If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands. Neil deGrasse Tyson
deem peers respect share showing tempting
As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.
deem employees filter images include meet obscene photos political
Employees will go through the photos to filter out those images that don't meet our guidelines. Some images that we deem objectionable would include nudity, images that are obscene or show violence, or are controversial in a political way.
deem duties hoping option pay performed point predicting release
Essentially, if we deem the administrator has not performed his duties adequately, which I'm not predicting or hoping will happen, our only option is to release him at that point or pay him the money.
deem enemy tells truth worst
They deem him the worst enemy who tells them the truth Plato
deem
This is a knock-your-socks-off offer. I don't see how they could not deem it superior.
deem information pieces sources trace
These are pieces of information that we could trace comfortably to sources we deem to be credible. Tom Ridge
diminish national respect rush
I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice. Michael Steele
diminish dissolve global goal governance nations people replace toward united work
The people who want to dissolve or diminish American sovereignty and replace it with global governance never give up. Their modus operandi is to work toward their one-world goal incrementally through United Nations treaties. Phyllis Schlafly
dimes kelsey separation
From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment. David Hyde Pierce
dimensions
So you see, movies are really another dimension. Cecilia Bartoli
diminish foods fork holding kinds mistake ordering personal relationship ruin talking whenever wrong
Whenever we make a mistake such as talking with a mouthful of food, ordering the wrong kinds of foods or holding our fork like a shovel, we ruin a relationship and diminish our personal brand.
dime donations gas gets involved money spending
We're so small, everyone has to be involved in everything. These are all volunteers. No one gets a dime and they're spending their own money on gas and babysitters as well as other donations to the play.
dimension ethical foreign
What he called for was 'an ethical dimension to foreign policy'.
dim nights passed three words
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. William Wordsworth
dimension eyes life strange tree
Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird....
distant extinct fairly force fossil inhabited planet record several species time
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. Louise Leakey
distant happening kinds listen receiving static stations
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.
distant dying love moan triumphant twang violin
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring
distant images knew less lump print reporter
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.
distant fight future peace principles rather ruin security whose
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. Neville Chamberlain
distant foreign great nation people seen
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. Nostradamus
distant disturbed entering words
Mr. Cullen, you look distant and aloof. But I know my words are entering you're disturbed mind.
distant doctors misleading people
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. David Newman
distant following growing plants received since
I have been growing daylilies since 1982. I received my first plants from a distant relative, and the following spring, I was hooked,
drinking champagne fine-wine
Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life. Charles Dickens
drinking mean worry
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure. Charles Caleb Colton
drinking climbing eating
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life. Alain Robert
drinking smoking remember
Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember. Al Pacino
drinking healing emotional
We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail. David Sedaris
drinking beer rays
All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow. Dave Barry
drinking advice gum
Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.
drinking book beer
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
drinking water toxic
Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health. David Suzuki
felt
I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
felt invent people
I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things. Lisa Gansky
felt scariest
'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
felt
We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.
felt series
From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series, Barnett Newman
felt good momentum
We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense. Matt Hasselbeck
felt proper
We always felt we did the proper thing.
felt fitted movement
We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing. Shirley Manson
felt finish game good guys healthy injured matter outcome season
We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready. Petr Sykora
fleeting schemes modeling
Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme. Ali MacGraw
fleeting world sacred
The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred Allen Ginsberg
fleeting hell shown time
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.
fleeting honey fame
Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes. Debbie Allen
fleeting found found-love
I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be. Debbie Macomber
fleeting life photograph prom reminds
Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is. Mary Ellen Mark
fleeting good-food perfume
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality. M. F. K. Fisher
fleeting human-nature occasional
It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. Emily Giffin
fleeting
Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. Aubrey O'Day
ghostly movies
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list. Talulah Riley
language description hard
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. Alan Watts
language programming programming-languages
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. Alan Perlis
language english-language programming-languages
In English every word can be verbed.
language individual should
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. Chogyam Trungpa
language disturbing
The language you are about to hear... is disturbing. Dave Chappelle
language prison foreign-language
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison! David Mitchell
language internet mediums
The internet is an amazing medium for languages, David Crystal
language internet process
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
language stifling resignation
resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language. Caitlin Thomas
listening
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say. Charles Stanley
listening wish newspapers
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. Charles Spurgeon
listening actors want
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. Alan Rickman
listening important actors
When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it. Alan Alda
listening i-can knows
I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know. Buddy Guy
listening gold example
The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening. Campbell Newman
listening pay distraction
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person. Denis Waitley
listening tasks musician
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes. Edward Gardner
listening next chance
Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time. Alan Lewis
mind colour new-thought
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
mind body weakness
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.
mind gout body
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
mind yoke foals
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.
mind pay talent
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.
mind toadstools insult
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
mind needed ifs
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 Stross
mind christianity holy
When filled with holy truth the mind rests.
mind states state-of-mind
We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
moods recreate
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs. Keren Ann
moods
Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes. Eleanor Catton
moods programs trying
We all have a different idea about what our programs are or the moods we're trying to set. It's your own interpretations of what you're trying to portray. Jamie Sale
night liberty sun
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
night people causes
People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
night doctors two
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.
night men wind
"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.
night giving church
Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.
night air sky
[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
night men sky
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
night hands names
When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!
night ballet all-night
I could have danced all night! Alan Jay Lerner
notes record
The only record we have are your notes and your recollection. David Stern
notes rapid third
When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone. Sunny Murray
notes mines
There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. William Shakespeare
notes straight
When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.
notes novel
There's never a false note in a Berg novel. Augusten Burroughs
notes
You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing. Eddie Van Halen
notes precisely remain
So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text, Donald Rumsfeld
notes made
I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again. Christy Mathewson
notes wells pianist
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own. David Benioff
obscure
I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure. Donald Barthelme
obscure feels
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. Don DeLillo
obscure headlines reader
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. David Ogilvy
obscure words
Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear. Joseph Joubert
obscure situation
When the situation is obscure, attack Heinz Guderian
obscure brevity
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure. Horace
obscure strive miscellaneous
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
obscure pursuit trivial twenty
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. Ted Cruz
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way. John Milton
possible-and-impossible people want
I only want people around me who can do the impossible. Elizabeth Arden
possible-change open-minded authority
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans. Beth Moore
possible situation
We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that. Jerry Angelo
possible
We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.
possible
make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job. George H. W. Bush
possible rule
My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either. Twiggy
possible raised strongest
She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()
possible-love inches ashamed
I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love. Charles Bukowski
possible
I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor. Felix Hernandez
purer woman women
There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest.
visionary
We want to be uplifting, ... We want to be visionary and progressive. Tommy Thompson