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.

Peter Young

He (John Howard) follows cricket very closely and did so from New York during the fifth Ashes Test.

Karl Shapiro

We too are ashes as we watch and hear The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise, Of one whose promised thoughts of other days, Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed, The service record of his youth wiped out, His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.

Darrell Brooks

We threw everything at them, but they're a dominant team and they can come right out of the ashes just like they have in the past.

Andrew Flintoff

It is something of a shock, to be honest. Both my family and myself are very proud to have won it and I am pleased the whole team have got one (an MBE) because throughout the Ashes there was somebody different contributing at different times.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

I think after the Ashes series Australia realized they were starting to relax a bit and they needed to pick their game up a little bit more so they were pretty tough this series,

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 goldAnd set my ashes aflame

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.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.

Voltaire

What will the preachers say? ... to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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.

Carl Crawford

Today, 65 percent of the power coming from our power plants is from the burning of natural gas.

Matt Cavanaugh

It got pretty hot, pretty smoky, pretty fast in there. There's evidence that they might have still been in there when it was burning pretty hot ... and we are going to catch them.

Catherine Johnson

I could see the crosses burning and I could hear all the words they would use, the N-word and the hate words, and I would listen until I got tired of listening, ... Then I would go inside and turn on music to listen to that instead.

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.

Warren Buffett

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

Keith Richard

There is no clear plan until the music is telling you what to do. It yelled at us, 'Do not overproduce me. Do not put the icing and the marzipan and the candles on.'

Robert Burton

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

Mitch Hedberg

I went to the store to bye a candle holder. They didn't have one so I got a cake.

Benjamin Franklin

The painful Preacher, like a candle bright, Consumes himself in giving others Light.

King Tuff

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

Frank Gorshin

Remember, it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.

Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

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.

Paul Jacobs

It is about not giving in to the living death that has consumed the world we live in.

James Allen

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.

Jack Valenti

In the last several years, piracy has been the dominant issue that has consumed my life,

Justine Bateman

I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.

Ray Chen

In a Pentium 4, over 50% of the computer's power is consumed by interconnection.

Paul Valery

The ultimate ""computer,"" our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.

Keiichi Sano

The current high inventories will be consumed during the maintenance. Gasoline demand remains strong in the U.S..

James Lind

They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared.

Jack Nicklaus

It was great for me because it felt like I actually had done something well and I hadn't prepared for it. I hadn't prepared for it like I did 10 years earlier when I would just be consumed by it.

L. Lionel Kendrick

The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

Roger Powell

He's a star player, but he's down to earth and he's very receptive to the young guys, ... He talks to us. He encourages us, gives us compliments, gives us positive criticism. He's been great.

Chief Seattle

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Michael Vaughan

It is important, with winter approaching, that the plight of those needing blankets and tents in the earthquake zone is not forgotten,

Matthew Simpson

It is my title to a place in heaven; and there, when earth shall have passed and its events shall have closed, I shall have a home forever.

Bob Smith

Lately, there has been unprecedented uplift and expansion of the Yellowstone caldera, an underground gap where some of the magma shoots out and the earth falls in.

Dan Toole

We may be six months on from the earthquake and through a mercifully mild winter, but there is still the monsoon to come and the next winter is only seven months away.

Bible Bible

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Ben Roethlisberger

It is a growing-up process. I'm a long way from mastering anything.

John Schuerholz

It is somewhat surprising that we've done it with so many young guys, ... It wasn't a part of our master plan.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Dave Parker

He is 50-50 right now for the Masters but we should know more after the operation.

Tony Gwynn

He might just be very comfortable doing what he's doing. If he is, he's at the top of the list, then. He's a master of his craft.

Sarah Lewis

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,

Sarah Lewis

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

Sara Teasdale

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

Barbara Walker

It had been a rumor for a while,

Venus Williams

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Milarepa

Osho reported at the end of discourse he had heard a rumor I was going to England. When asked by someone what he thought he said, "All I can say is God save the Queen." Osho certainly loved to tease me.

Frederick William Borden

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

Jessica Reynolds

There was a rumor going around that this was going to be a violation on Friday.

Mark Frost

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

Publilius Syrus

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

LeAnn Rimes

I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors,

Margaret Atwood

The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor.

Robert Esche

I was just trying to spark my team.

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.

Michael Pittman

It was a big play to spark the team.

Robert Esche

It was nothing he did. I was just trying to spark the team.

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...

Taylor Swift

I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life.

Richard P. Feynman

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

Rebecca West

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

William Shenstone

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

William Shenstone

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Samuel Pepys

At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

Trevor O'Hoy

An extremely competitive retail market is pushing extensive discounting and large volumes of wine at low prices, and New World competitors from South America and South Africa are also impacting on the market.

Vera Farmiga

My personality is just innately even-keeled. I'm not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I'm not a passionate woman. I don't know, maybe it's my physiological makeup, but I don't like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then.

Robin Williams

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

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...