Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Allen Tate

And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.

Allen Iverson

Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.

Allan Gurganus

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

Alistair Cooke

For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.

Alison McGhee

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

Ann Brashares

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

Albert Brooks

Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

Albert Camus

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Amelia Earhart

If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.

Amanda Hocking

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

Amanda Hocking

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

Amanda Palmer

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

Amanda Palmer

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

Annie Dillard

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

Clemence Poesy

I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it.

Ronald Fisher

No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

Stephen Baldwin

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

Spencer Abraham

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

Thomas Pynchon

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

Thomas Gray

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Thomas Gray

We frolic while 'tis May.

Thomas Hardy

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Reform, that we may preserve.

Thomas Hobbes

[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.