Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethan Hawke

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

Ernst Mayr

On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and then on Sunday get down on his knees and pray to God. Frankly I've never been able to understand it because you would need two totally different compartments in your brain, one that deals with religion and the other with everything else.

Ernest Rutherford

When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.

Cassandra Clare

Charlotte, Will’s being vexing.' 'And the sun has come up in the east,' said Jem, to no one in particular.

Moby

I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

Mike Shannon

There's a woman protecting herself from the sun with a carousel.

Nathan Deal

Republicans can vote on Sundays too, just after they go to Church.

Kate Christensen

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.

Ken Kesey

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Kristen Bell

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

Kerry Collins

The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is still and always will be there, my willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to play another season has waned to a level that I feel is no longer adequate to meet the demands of the position,

Kristen Stewart

People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

Gloria Swanson

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

Gloria Swanson

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

Gloria Swanson

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

Harry S Truman

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

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.

Mark Morris

Sunday is a day of rest.

Muddy Waters

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

Muhammad Ali

Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.

Harold B. Lee

It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

Graham Nash

I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.

Carly Fiorina

Donald Trump would be a better president every day of the week and twice on Sunday rather than Hillary Clinton.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

Oprah Winfrey

I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.

Oliver Goldsmith

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Margaret Atwood

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

Ken Livingstone

I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.

Mark Twain

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.