Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Collins

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

Ira Kurzban

What's happening in Haiti is what's happening in Iraq: It's just total chaos, except there are no U.S. troops on the ground.

David Howell

Chaos surrounds him out there. I had to handle it for five minutes at the end today and I was frustrated. He probably deals with that every day.

Rodger Baker

Chaos in North Korea is still seen as the most likely scenario for some 'adventurism' with conventional or nuclear weapons.

Denis Freeman

You leave your man and you double-team and you try to gamble and create some chaos and that worked out. We got steals and some easy hoops.

Norton Juster

Freedom is not a license for chaos,

Gary Lamar

They create chaos, but it's a controlled chaos. That's a comfortable environment for them. All three love chaos.

Vance Walberg

It looks like chaos. Sometimes it turns into chaos.

James Stephens

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Bobby Scott

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Jack Jones

With humidity as low as this, you don't watch the fire creep, you just have to get out of its way, because it is moving quickly.

Dick Francis

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Ann Richards

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

Simone Elkeles

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Alexander Ovechkin

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

David Foster Wallace

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

Ron Ziegler

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

Steve Harvey

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.