Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Wilder Lane

Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater proprietyand stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

Robert Plant

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

Sara Paretsky

And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

Sara Paretsky

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

Robert Baden-Powell

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

Ricky Jay

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

Tori Amos

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?

Verne Troyer

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

Vance Havner

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

Toots Thielemans

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

Samuel Johnson

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

Samuel Johnson

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Robert Hunter

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

Rodney Dangerfield

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.

Roberto Bolano

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Robert Palmer

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

Wallace Stevens

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

Willa Cather

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

Vincent Van Gogh

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

Virginia Woolf

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

William Blake

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

Samuel Beckett

We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench

Ryan Seacrest

I've never done Botox in my life. But I've probably tried everything else under the sun

W. H. Auden

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

Wayne Dyer

Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.

Tory Burch

I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

Tove Jansson

Storms probably exist only because after them we can have a sunrise.

Wilfrid Sheed

The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."