Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robbie Amell

I grew up watching 'Power Rangers,' 'Ninja Turtles', 'Batman.' You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with my friends. We would have the masks and the swords and pretend we had super powers.

Russell Hoban

The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.

Walter Benjamin

There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. the flneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

Harvey Mackay

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Lord Byron

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

Mike Dirnt

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

Paul Giamatti

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Peter Kreeft

On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

Bhagavad Gita

Knowledge is better than mere ritualistic practice, meditation is better than mere knowledge, renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation, peace immediately follows the renunciation of (the attachment to) the fruit of work.

Tatiana Maslany

I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

Tara Brach

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

Atharva Veda

HOLD all your property and wealth in trust for the Lord who gave them to you; even your family you must treat as a sacred trust, as persons given to you by the Lord to love, foster and guide. Thus, you must elevate your attachment into worship and make it an instrument for spiritual progress.

Terry Belanger

I think that all of us have a sentimental attachment to books,

Rob Halford

I'd like to feel that everyone would recognize that Judas Priest was the first true heavy metal band. I think there is a special attachment to Judas Priest and metal. We were the first band to really go out and claim ourselves to be a real metal band.

Zhuangzi

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

William Bartram

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

William Hazlitt

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

Paula Gonzalez

He just had a longtime want to be in the military.

Graham Hawkes

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

Shakira

All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

Matt Carter

He said it's longer than what they say it is.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

Andrew Kohut

His strong points are no longer his strong points.

Hank Fishkind

I think it's going to be longer than that. In Florida, we're going to see some slowing of population growth, so that will magnify the impact.

Steve Hansen

I think we're getting closer. It takes a little longer than all the parties expected. We're still looking at downtown. Penney's is our first priority.