Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. A. Salvatore

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

Prince Philip

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

Plutarch

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Walt Whitman

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Roseanne Barr

After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

Robert Greene

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

Steve Zahn

What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.

Vince Vaughn

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Robert Jordan

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Rodney Dangerfield

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Samuel Beckett

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Salman Rushdie

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Jennifer Weiner

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Jello Biafra

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again -- S-E-R-F music.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

George Herbert

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

George Herbert

Faire language grates not the tongue.

George R. R. Martin

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

Eugene Ormandy

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

Jamie Moyer

Sometimes you've got to put up more zeroes than the other team. Tonight I wasn't able to do that.

Rob Lowe

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

George Eliot

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

It's going to be a ton of fun.

Steve Cook

That really set the tone for our offense. It's been that way for us all year.

That's why tonight was so big. We've got to go back there and play Grenada.

That's just the way he plays. You just have to tone him down sometimes.

(Blocking shots) was kind of her forte. She had a ton of them every game.

Every puffin we see tonight is a miracle.

Frank Herbert

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.