Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Zinsser

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Robert T. Bakker

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Virgil

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

Friedrich Schiller

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Eric Ries

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Joe Clark

I think it is probably just a matter of there being more bears and more people in bear range than ever before.

Dave Wannstedt

We thought we'd see some New England Patriots in their offense, ... but it was still Pitt versus Notre Dame, not the Miami Dolphins or the Chicago Bears versus the New England Patriots.

Chris Bowman

I think Thursday definitely bears watching for us -- especially southeast Kansas.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Lee Hannah

It isn't just polar bears and penguins that we must worry about any more.

Ozzie Guillen

I don't care if you're a Cubs fan, a Bulls fan, a Bears fan. I think a lot of people now are Chicago fans,

Mike Cammalleri

He goes to the net hard when he gets in front. It's like he sees red, you know? He bears down and makes sure the puck ends up in the back of the net.

Richard Paul Evans

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Samuel Richardson

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Vladimir Putin

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Frank Galati

I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

Chris Cornell

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.