Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hedda Hopper

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Hedrick Smith

Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

Hector Hugh Munro

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

James Fallows

I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.

Laurence J. Peter

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Liberace

What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

Luther Vandross

The best things in life are free

Orhan Pamuk

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Jack Nicklaus

I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.

Jack Nicklaus

If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

Sandy Johnston

That will be super. That will be a big bundle of rooms. Right now, we have only five of 12 hotels open. It's not only the beach that's short of rooms, it's everyone else in town.

Brian Joros

We're definitely chasing them. They're the best team in Palm Beach County.

Elaine Deck

It does not look like Virginia Beach is outside the norm by any means. They are caught in a bind.

Rick Smith

I think he sees this as a great opportunity, and he's going to make the most out of every day. He's in a position to move himself away. It's a dream. I'd love to make this a Pebble Beach situation.

Mickey McCamish

I think moderation has never been in the Myrtle Beach vocabulary. Maybe we've discovered the word moderation. If you look at the growth it was just straight up, with the 42 courses opening in the 1990s. And the number of golfers was not increasing.

Eddie Money

You know, I'm just a beach bum. I can go surfing all the time down on Huntington Beach and Malibu beach. I just hang out and surf with everyone down there. But I'll tell you, I hate it when the 16 year old kids surf a wave better than I do!

Terry Anthony

We hung around and kept battling, but you've got to give New Smyrna Beach credit.

Henry David Thoreau

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

Henry David Thoreau

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Henry David Thoreau

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Johannes Tauler

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Johannes Kepler

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.