Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Vaughan

It certainly gave you a feeling that the Ashes mean so much to so many people and the nation, to see people hanging out of the windows at work, to see kids waving in the streets certainly tells me that the game of cricket has hit home.

Allama Iqbal

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment, His burning candle consumed me - the moth; His wine overwhelmed my goblet, The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold And set my ashes aflame

Phil Jaques

I am behind Australia's best opening partnership of all time, so I have to bide my time for opportunities to come up. It would be a dream come true to play a revenge Ashes series this summer.

Granth Sahib

If I was slashed and cut into pieces, over and over again, and put into the mill and ground into flour, burnt by fire and mixed with ashes - even then, I could not estimate Your Value. How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name?

Katy Manning

I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!

Nevil Shute

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

John Green

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

Joan of Arc

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

Richard Wilbur

The little dog lay curled and did not rise But slept the deeper as the ashes rose, And found the people incomplete

Tony Rode

He's actually inside and, at one point, comes out of the vehicle pretty much on fire. He was burning on his arms, legs and hands.

James Hansen

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.

Will Durant

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Barry McCaffrey

Other treatments have been deemed safer and more effective than a psychoactive burning carcinogen self-induced through one's throat,

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and west, Expounds the passions burning in his breast. The rising moon o'er that enchanted land Pauses to hear and yearns to understand. --Mowbray Myles

Melissa Doi

Please, God, it's so hot. I'm burning up.

Lane Evans

Record high gas prices are burning holes in peoples; pockets and harming our economy. They are squeezing everyone, farmers and truckers, small businesses and families. When oil prices rise, the prices of all goods increase. That's why the Administration has to step up and take action.

John Caudwell

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

Paul Wick

Instead of generating cash, they're burning cash. We are not jumping into Internet stocks at these valuations. I think the Internet sector is going to continue to sink.

Robert Burton

To enlarge and illustrate this - is to set a candle in the sun.

King Tuff

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it

Sharon Brown

I just put my (Kwanzaa) candles out before I came.

Cristela Alonzo

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

Bible Bible

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked: / For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Angela Brown

If we see a candle that's lit, it will be removed.

Jim Carey

If we are not staffed appropriately we will continue to work as hard as we can to meet the responsibilities of the office. We don?t let the candle fall.

Susan Isaacs

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Julie Raeder

Water, milk, juices and even some foods contain a lot of fluid. Any foods that will melt, such as gelatin or flavored ice treats, or foods that contain a lot of liquid such as soup are measured as part of your fluid intake. For most people, the foods consumed count for about 20 percent of one's fluid intake.

Rosecrans Baldwin

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

Bible Bible

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Alex Rodriguez

That's the only reason I play baseball. It's what I'm consumed to do right now.

Christine Ebersole

'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

Abbie Cornish

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Robin Ince

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Zosia Mamet

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Yuri Gagarin

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Yunus Emre

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Twyla Tharp

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks are.

Rick Warren

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Wang Jian

Gold has never been sold at such a high price in Beijing.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

Thomas Fuller

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Christian Backman

I don't even know what I was thinking. I just threw all my stuff up and skated around on the ice. When I got the gold medal around my neck, it was hard to hold back your tears.

George Babicz

He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

William Jennings Bryan

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Sara Teasdale

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Wilhelm Reich

We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

Jack Molenaar

If you look at spaces per person, there are more spaces per person allotted right now than were allotted in the master plan.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Jim Norris

It's been proposed that we update our outdoor venues. We've put together a master plan to pretty much update them all.

Robert Toth

I wanted to pay tribute to this master storyteller who touched so many people.

Mike Johnson

They weren't really just surviving. They had mastered this.

Derek Waugh

It's frustrating. Maybe there's a master plan for us.

Frederick William Borden

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

Mark Frost

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

Terence McKenna

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

Selena Gomez

I've heard the rumors but you won't come clean. I guess I'm hoping it's because of me...

Tertullian

The nature of rumor is known to all

Paul McCartney

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Hesiod

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

Ben Stiller

All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.

Fadel Gheit

Rumors and speculation have taken over the market.

Satchel Paige

I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.

Steve Evans

(The fight) was the right time to get a little spark going.

Libba Bray

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Ben Stein

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Miranda Cosgrove

Sparks fly, it's like electricity...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Plato

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

Philip Treacy

Everybody loves things that sparkle.

John Buskirk

That was really the spark that got us in gear.

Robert Motherwell

The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations...

Samuel Rutherford

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Salvador Dali

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates.

Rod Stewart

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Voltaire

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

Voltaire

Wine is the divine juice of September.

William Lloyd Garrison

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

William Butler Yeats

now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.