Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liam Gallagher

I will always be an Oasis.

Charles Baudelaire

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

Bill Maher

Saddam Hussein is Hitler like Oasis was The Beatles.

Tom Stoppard

I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.

Aleister Crowley

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

Desmond Tutu

Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

Boris Trajkovski

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

Molly Ivins

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

Julia Ward Howe

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Amanda Lindhout

Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.

Paul Feig

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

Barry Gibb

My lower back problems really began in 1989 on the One For All tour, which was agony for me.

Edgar Allan Poe

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

Edgar Allan Poe

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

Edgar Allan Poe

...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

William Faulkner

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

Harold Feinstein

The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

Isabella Rossellini

I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here until I was 20. I am not only Italian, I am partly Swedish. When my parents divorced, I was three years old and went to live in Paris... when I am offered a film in Europe, I come with great enthusiasm!

Bible Bible

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.

Andreas Katsulas

So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.

Thomas Cole

Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden.

Bob Edwards

Murrow would be delighted that there are 24-hour news channels, but disappointed that during prime time all that they would be doing are these shout shows and Larry King instead of doing the news,

Patrick Vieira

Naturally, I'm delighted to have scored but the most important thing was that we won, ... We played the perfect match, controlling the result from start to finish.

Eddie Vedder

Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.

Kate Klise

The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

Catherynne M. Valente

I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I don't read it for legal reasons, but I'm thrilled to know it's there. Someone cared. Someone loved it enough to spend their free time writing about it for free.