Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corrie Ten Boom

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.

Amy Bloom

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

Year-in and year-out, Hidden Valley is a powerhouse in swimming in the Roanoke area. In the past, they've been very, very good.

Ben van Berkel

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

Sarah McLachlan

Why are there so many songs about ravens, and what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions. Rainbows have nothing to hide

A. N. Wilson

We don't need another Teflon-like hidden risk at DuPont.

We can't stop (the pandemic flu), and run from it and hide for a year.

Marianne Williamson

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

Pat Robertson

We were sort of hiding the congressmen. They wouldn't let Dick Armey and people like that get on the platform.

Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year.

Yeah, it's good. No one should have a problem with it unless you're hiding something.

We have no ulterior motive here, ... There's no reason for us hide this information. We want to get it out.

Sammy Sosa

People were talking (stuff), knowing nothing. They don't know I feel. Why am I going to be hiding from Chicago? For what? That I'm scared? Never.

Tom Shales

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Tom Petty

When you shoot well, you can hide a lot of deficiencies. I like the (3-pointer) as well as anyone, but we wanted to be a little more patient on offense in the second half.

Steve Greene

We're not scary and we don't have a hidden agenda,

People are often very nervous about getting in touch with what's inside. But there's no security in the outer world. You have to go within to find real hope and faith. Everyone has intuition. Why would we want to hide it?

William Stafford

My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready.

Anna Friel

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Ally Carter

Hiding is for amateurs.

David Duchovny

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

We had nothing to hide so we wanted to co-operate. We thought it was the right thing to do.

Dido Armstrong

Inside everybody's hiding something.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

There is no need to hide the reality from the world.

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

Turner said, 'She did not want this; we hid in the room and took her by surprise,'

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Herman Edwards

I'm not listing his as anything yet because I don't know what the tests are. Once I know, I'll let everyone know. I don't hide injuries.

Steve Toltz

I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.

Roger Clemens

I'm sure they could hide me in the outfield. Why not?