Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

And with the morn those angel faces smile/ Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.

The university has been working with Disney since the beginning of the year on this. It'll either be sometime after the Los Angeles and New York premiere or sandwiched in between the two.

George Bodenheimer

This is a big day for our company. An expanded base in Los Angeles will help fuel our overall long-term growth.

Maurice Evans

They've got all the drama and hype we have the great basketball game. Detroit and San Antonio might not be glamour cities like Los Angeles and Miami, but both teams play pure basketball the way its meant to be played.

Jeff Ross

A lot of the ballplayers loved that movie. When we got there, the Angels wanted him to come to their locker room, too.

You're going to have containers coming from every terminal, not just the Port of Los Angeles but the Port of Long Beach, ... I think maglev would really be pushing it.

Bill Clinton

This is by far the largest group of radio and television correspondents ever assembled this far from a Los Angeles courtroom.

This is a truly historic vote. Los Angeles is making a massive statement that we want to educate our children right. It makes up for 35 years of neglect.

Willie Taylor

This is the first year this has happened for us. It worked out really well for us. Angel came in and helped right away. She's a good player, a good leader and the kids respect her. Angel lives as close to Central as any of our kids. She lives in this community; all of our kids knew Angel.

You can't make too big of a deal out of it. But any time you play the Angels this late in the season and it means something, it's fun.

Paul Tagliabue

This morning, the committee selected the Los Angeles Coliseum as the site that offers the best opportunity for the National Football League ... to create a state-of-the-art stadium that will benefit the fans, the league and the city for years to come.

Jorge Rodriguez

There will be 2 to 3 million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone.

A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the powers out of which his angels are made, and is the most powerful and the brightest of them all.

Boris Pasternak

A corner draft fluttered the flame, and the white fever of temptation, upswept its angel wings that cast , a cruciform shadow.

It seems to me that Los Angeles is a city filled with dreamers.

Mark McFarland

It was the experience of a lifetime to fly with the Blue Angels and unlike anything I've felt before.

Havelock Ellis

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'

Giuseppe Mazzini

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Herman Melville

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

Herman Melville

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!

Herman Melville

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

Henry David Thoreau

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

Henry David Thoreau

Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,--who is invariably the devil,--and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,--who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority.

Henry David Thoreau

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

Florence Nightingale

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Fiona Apple

What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?

Henry Miller

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

Helen Keller

Smell is a fallen angel.

Helen Keller

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Cassandra Clare

Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.

Cassandra Clare

And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick of its tail caught the edge of a statue, sending it flying into the dry ornamental pool, where it shattered into dust. “By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles,” noted Will. “Has no one respect for the classics these days?

Cassandra Clare

Simon-But werewolfs don't like our kind! Jordan-I do. It's his kind I don't like. They think they're better than everyone else. Jace-No, I think I'm better than everybody else. City of Fallen Angels- Jace, Simon, and Jordan.