Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. M. Coetzee

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire.

J. K. Rowling

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.

Jack London

To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

Georg Buchner

Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.

Georg Buchner

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday

Jerry Bridges

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

Hugh Jackman

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

J. Taylor

I'd sung as a kid, but then I quit,

Tony Stewart

I don't want to see it end, ... I don't want to see the sun set.

Hugo Gernsback

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

Howard Carter

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.

Honore de Balzac

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

J. R. R. Tolkien

"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like a deer he sprang away. Through the trees he sped. On and on he led them, tireless and swift, now that his mind was at last made up. The woods about the lake they left behind. Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land.

Morley Safer

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

Milan Kundera

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Marcel Proust

I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

Jose Saramago

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

Jorge Luis Borges

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.

Kenneth Grahame

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.

Kelli O'Hara

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

Kellan Lutz

I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

Jo Brand

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

Jimmy Carter

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise.

Emilie Autumn

Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.

Emily Dickinson

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

Emily Dickinson

Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

Emily Dickinson

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

Emily Dickinson

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Elle Varner

It’s nine o’clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?

Ella Maillart

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Henry Vaughan

Early, as well as late, Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.