Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Spade

On Sundays, I lay low, sulk a lot, and try to get my head together for next week.

Dan Brown

Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

Dalton Trumbo

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

Dalton Trumbo

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

We wouldn't be winning necessarily if it were all sunny days.

William Shakespeare

Juliet is the east and i am the sun.

Anne Lamott

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

Anna Akhmatova

Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.

Albert Camus

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

Albert Camus

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Albert Camus

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

Czeslaw Milosz

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.

D. H. Lawrence

We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

Abbe Pierre

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

Dan Quayle

We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.

Agnes Repplier

Necessity knows no Sunday.

Agnes Repplier

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

Charlotte Bronte

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

Ben Harper

I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

Bill Shankly

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

William Stafford

Well, it was yesterday. And the sun came,WhyIt came.

William Stafford

Well, it was yesterday. And the sun came, Why It came.

Carl Rogers

One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset... I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.

Carl Rogers

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

Carl Sagan

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?

Carl Sagan

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I saw the sunset forty-four times!

Bill Vaughan

A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.