Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gottman

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

James Matthews

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

Gene Hall

The lake doesn't have a bacterial problem. That's the most comforting thing.

Peter Zumthor

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

Pam Sutherland

It was comforting that the governor was there to protect women's access. I think women will be able to rest easy knowing that governor will veto any legislation that comes to his desk.

Jane Smiley

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

Jean Schmidt

The fact that a lot of legislators live here makes it comforting to me,

Alice Sebold

In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

George Eliot

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

Rosaleen Tallon

It is all wrong in its symbolism. I look up to the sky to remember him. I will never go down.

Denise Moore

He never remembers us together. This is the only time he remembers me is in prison.

Richard Paul Evans

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Richelle Mead

„Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.“ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.

Sandra Cisneros

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

Zora Neale Hurston

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

Vince Staples

I remember, once, my sister used to tell me that they found me in the trash-can when I was younger, so one time I pushed my sister into a trash-can - I put it over her head and pushed her down the street. And then after that, we been close ever since.

Lane Olinghouse

Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?

Rodel Natividad

If you think someone is weird, remember that they are probably thinking the same of you.