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.'

Lord Byron

Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still

Roger Wyer

Joy is here now. We don't have to wait for the weekend.

Mike McGinnis

He was a joy to watch. Berger really had it going. He's going to be tough to stop.

Pope Benedict

Today I have the joy of presiding for the first time over a canonization rite.

Jean Killy

It is not an obligation but a joy

Ron Wistrom

He was exasperating at times, but he was always a joy.

William Butler Yeats

he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'

Rob Halford

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

Ronnie Barker

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

Richard Baxter

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Samuel Johnson

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

Samuel Johnson

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Sarah Orne Jewett

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

Virgil

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Wallace Stegner

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.