Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milan Kundera

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

Louise Gluck

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen...

Jonathan Demme

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

Judith Jamison

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

John McCain

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

John Frusciante

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

James Merrill

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

Jim Rohn

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Robin Ince

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Zosia Mamet

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Yuri Gagarin

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Yunus Emre

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Twyla Tharp

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks are.

Rick Warren

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Rebecca Solnit

The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Benjamin Franklin

in eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Jane Fonda

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

Charles Bukowski

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

Clive Barker

Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

Clive Barker

Words are sexier than flesh.

David Foster Wallace

Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

Thomas Browne

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.