Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.

Henry David Thoreau

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

Henry David Thoreau

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

Jeremy Bulloch

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

Ezra Cornell

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

Gianfranco Zola

I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.

Jakob Nielsen

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.

George Will

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Jeffrey Jones

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

Fulton J. Sheen

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Gabe Newell

I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

George Horace Lorimer

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

George R. R. Martin

The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

Gail Simmons

You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

Eugene Mirman

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

Groucho Marx

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

Every day we serve fresh salad, bananas, oranges, apples and grapes. We serve a baked potato once a month. Green beans are often from a can due to availability.

a couple of rotten apples that need to be dealt with.

Craig Cook

You have to make sure you are comparing apples to apples. A lot of times, people don't do that -- but the properties could be really different, the lift tickets might cover different areas, and the shuttle service might not be as good.

What's unfortunate is that I know a lot of good guys who were in those organizations that don't know what's going on. A few bad apples did bad things, and a lot of good people had to suffer for it.

There are a lot great, heroic guys on that police force. There are a couple of rotten apples that need to be dealt with,

The farm will give younger kids an idea of where the apples they eat come from, where the eggs that Mom feeds them at home come from, before she buys them in the store. Having to dig for potatoes in the sand will make kids realize that it takes some effort to get to some foods,

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

It's really not an Apples to Apples comparison, if you will.

It's a nice crop of apples out there. The apples are a little smaller because of the lack of rain, but maybe a little sweeter because of the warm dry weather.

It's not going to do any good for the pumpkin crop this year. They're already gone, you might say. They're powerful smaller and everything. Apples? It's too late to do anything with apples this year. They have done their cycle of growing.

It was apples and oranges. We wanted to give both films a leg up.

No terrestrial radio station can provide the 125 channels of programming that we offer, including the 68 channels of commercial-free music. It's apples and oranges.

If we want apples to eat all year round then this is necessary. And the product is still good for you.

Insurance companies, we know, need reasonable adjustments but we shouldn't tempt the bad apples in the barrel.