Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Kleypas

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

John Updike

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

John Shimkus

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

John Ralston Saul

After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans ... There could be no more eloquent illustration of the colonial mind-set than a bunch of Celts and Vikings in a distant northern territory insulting each other as les Anglais and the French as if they were the descendants of the people who had subjected and ruined them.

John O'Hara

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

Johnny Vegas

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

Nikos Kazantzakis

I was ill before I fell ill.

Susan Peters

These are illegal and racist restrictions, and there's no reason we should perpetuate something that was outlawed many years ago, ... Having to remove it one property at a time didn't make sense to me.

This is my first time doing something like this. It's time to get involved. It's not about racism. It's about illegal immigration. We've always welcomed immigrants. We just want them to be legal.

This is a loss we could ill afford,

This is a half-hearted and half-baked solution to the problem of illegal immigration.

Matthew Simpson

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

John Ortberg

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

John Morrison

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

Frank Church

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

Elaine Chao

We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

John Bunyan

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

Lionel Tiger

There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

Joseph Campbell

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

Juliette Binoche

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

John Kricfalusi

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

Ellen Willis

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Fred Smoot

And if this is illegal, then sue me!

Julie Mehretu

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Luis Palau

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Max Cannon

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Edward Bellamy

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.

Pope Francis

Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church.

Pliny the Elder

Better do nothing than do ill.

Victor Hugo

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Richard MacDonald

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

Rene Descartes

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.