Famous Quotes & Sayings

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Algernon Swinburne

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives

Henry Cabot Lodge

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Samuel Daniel

Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho.

Isabella Bird

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

Thomas Sowell

Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

William Winter

No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.

Alexander MacLaren

'The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

Giles Foden

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Studs Terkel

If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.

Leslie Fiering

This road has got a lot of corpses on it.

David Vitalli

There are semen tests out there, and some of them work, some of them don't. The light will even read subcutaneous bruising on corpses - this is serious stuff.

Brad Wright

The dialogue about corpses washing up was difficult to get through in rehearsals,

Ellen Hopkins

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

George Allen

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Yo-Yo Ma

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Billy Graham

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Ben Elliot

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Becky G

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

David Kay

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Thomas Wolfe

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.

Wesley Schultz

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Chuck Palahniuk

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Yann Martel

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Clark Gregg

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

Bruce Jackson

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Christina Baker Kline

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

Citium Zeno

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

John C. Calhoun

To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.

Gina Talamona

The antitrust division is looking into the possibility of anticompetitive practices in the music download industry.

Pete Carroll

In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.

LeBron James

We have the tiebreaker with everybody in our division right now (except Detroit). This was a must-win.

Charles Pyle

Typically school divisions will send a dozen or so individuals to something like this.

Alistair MacLeod

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

Lester Funk

We have a huge rivalry with Highland, so the game was real intense with the fans. It was one of the most intense games of the season so far. It was a division game and a physical battle.

Bobby Bowden

We have to kind of redirect our goal - our goal now is to win our division. Forget everything else, men. Try to win this division and get into the (ACC) championship game and go from there.

Francois Cluzet

I'm an actor who isn't fond of dialogue and who loves to act silently.

Pat Gillick

Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.

Mario Andretti

My wife loves football, but I think she's resigned to the fact that I'll never make it there.

Carla Williams

Michelle's remained humble, normal, centered. There's a passion for the work and the actor's life. She loves what she does.

Georg Lichtenberg

Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smouldering candle.

Zara Phillips

Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

Dwight Freeney

Porter does a lot of talking, that's his game. He loves it.

Gail Simmons

I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.

Richard Hatch

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

C. S. Lewis

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

C. S. Lewis

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Bette Davis

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Anthony Storr

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Anthony Storr

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Bertrand Russell

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

Bertrand Russell

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Richie Sambora

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Andy Warhol

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.

Alfred Hitchcock

Never turn your back on a friend.