Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Ada Cambridge

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

Neil Clarke

going back to the Stone Ages of Salem.

Randy Zanatta

Golf is one of the only sports where you spend more as you age. The peak spending years for golf are ages 45 to 64.

Craig Castleberry

I think it's just a vision for our church and wanting to reach a broader range of people. We're just wanting to reach all ages and contemporary worship can do that, if it's done right. People like it.

Wendy Wilson

There is a huge difference of needs at the current school. I'm looking forward to the ages being split.

John Lasseter

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

H. Hunt

I think it's the one thing that people of all ages can benefit from year-round here in the county.

King Krule

Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially older people, 'It took me ages to get into jazz.'

Agatha Christie

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Jan Morris

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Charles Caleb Colton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

John Wilmot

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Mike Butcher

We're looking for a guy that can step it up.

Denis Norden

I've seen radio, variety, revue, pretty well all of it, and of all of them, I have the greatest regard for variety as family entertainment.

Gerald Brenan

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

Gerald Brenan

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Haley Jowle

I didn't want to get my hopes up. He might have said that I wasn't his daughter.

Dave Anderson

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

Jeff Gordon

The first thing I did was go to Rick Hendrick and tell him what I'd been approached with, what I would like to do and what my hopes were. We worked it all out, and first thing I know I'm signing a lifetime contract.

Alan Stern

These policies represented the hopes and the plans of those that were murdered in the Holocaust. They had taken out policies in order to protect their families.

Ahmed Khan

This has led to recurrent crises. One hopes it is different this time.

Tom Smith

Everyone at Roberson wishes Cam the best. Everyone hopes things work out for him. By taking this step, he can still be a Tiger. We'll see what happens.

George Hunter

I want to make sure whatever we come up with is something we can sustain, ... Otherwise you're just raising people's hopes and then dashing them.

Paul Kenny

It is very regrettable that Morrisons have left it so late to meet us, but everyone hopes there will be an agreement.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It's like things are in the world. Hopes fail. An end comes. We have only a little time to wait now.

Kathleen Hanna

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Robert Bennett

I would say so. It's part of my life.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Stanley Hauerwas

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Mark Fuhrman

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

Anthony Warrens

It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,

Devon Williams

The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on who I am and what I do.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Richelle Mead

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Viola Spolin

The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

William Wordsworth

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

Samuel Rutherford

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

Samuel Johnson

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

Wallace Stevens

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Rocco DiSpirito

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Roberto Rossellini

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Sarah Dessen

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

Winston Churchill

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes...