Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Bible Bible

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Victoria de los Angeles

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

John Ortberg

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

Lilian Thuram

He told me that his salute belonged to ancient Rome.

William Hazlitt

He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.

Dave Smith

Just about every old tree in town is down. The town just will never look the same in our lifetime. It breaks my heart. I'm so disgusted. Just about every ancient pecan and a lot of the oaks are gone.

Steve Erickson

Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Ten of them will be entirely new models.

Doug Aitken

The 'Station to Station' film is made entirely out of one-minute films, and each of the 62 minutes is a completely different person, place or encounter.

Jeremy Northam

I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

Rabbi Katz

This is a simple 16-minute speech, but it's so profound. It's one thing to have read it, but entirely another thing to hear it in its entirety. King's speech is one of the top inspirational writings in all of American rhetoric, ever.

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Daniel Benjamin

The protests were entirely to be expected. The Pakistanis know the U.S., if it gets high-quality intelligence, is going to act.

Susan Hill

Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.

John Olsen

On Long Island, rock radio is an important part of people's lives. K-Rock, to a lot of people, was Howard. He was such an indelible part of it. We're entirely different. Here you know you'll get music.

James Tate

I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Charles Kingsley

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Diane Ackerman

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

George Herbert

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.

Buzz Aldrin

At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.

Jessica Simpson

I'll usually wash my hair and let it air-dry wavy, but if I'm just in a hang-out mood, I won't even wash it. I'll wait until it smells.

Rebecca West

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Rachel Caine

Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

Peter Ackroyd

And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Brad Paisley

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard

Jana Kramer

I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with I Hope It Rains it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.

Ben E. King

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".

Ben E. King

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

Ben E. King

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Carl Sandburg

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

Cameron Crowe

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

Mick Jagger

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Gene Fowler

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Wendell Berry

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Joseph Addison

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

James Russell Lowell

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Ellen Goodman

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

Elaine Vogel

This theater is actually always busy. There's so much going on here.

Robert Brustein

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Estelle

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

Fiona Shaw

Theater dates very quickly.

Lou Reed

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

Elaine Vogel

For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

John Parsons

Even though he never said anything; you could just tell,

Doris Day

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

Tim Mambort

We went in pretty confident. It was all right. I don't think we were that thrilled about it.

Cynthia Kenyon

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Tom Robbins

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

John Wagner

There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.

Ferran Adria

For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

Christopher Little

Ms. Rowling is thrilled to have been vindicated so clearly,

Joseph Barbera

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

Luanne Rice

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.