Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Orwell

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

George R. R. Martin

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.

George R. R. Martin

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

George R. R. Martin

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

George R. R. Martin

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

George R. R. Martin

I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

Garth Ennis

I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?

Garth Nix

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. I’m Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.

Frederick Banting

If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

Frederick Buechner

We have God's joy in our blood.

Fernando Pessoa

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

Fede Alvarez

There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

Fanny Burney

You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel a great irritation you must hold your breath; if a sneeze still insists upon making its way you must oppose it keeping your teeth grinding together; if the violence of the pulse breaks some blood-vessel you must break the blood-vessel -- but not sneeze.

Evel Knievel

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

Francis of Assisi

And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord. And when It is sacrificed on the altar by the priest or borne anywhere, let all the people on bended knees render praise, glory and honor to the True and Living Lord God.

Jeff Thomson

I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.

Graham Joyce

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

Graham Greene

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

Gregory Colbert

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow

Ignatius of Loyola

Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

Ian Somerhalder

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

Howie Carr

You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

Howard Warren Buffett

The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.

Hosea Ballou

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Human blood is heavy; the man that has shed it cannot run away

GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven. In this country the gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it.Whether on the gallows high Or where blood flows the reddest, The noblest place for man to die -- Is where he died the deadest. --(Old play)

Generally, (Evergreen) releases them in bursts, like when equipment breaks or (through) other pulp mill problems. And if you're breathing (PM-10s), they can lodge very deeply in the lungs and are absorbed in the blood stream and can have very toxic effects on the body.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All truths are bloody truths to me.

George Bernard Shaw

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Gelett Burgess

It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.