Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).

George Vecsey

Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens. Not a cathedral - but a place where people go to be fulfilled, nonetheless.

Greg Dixon

It gives them a feeling, that they can actually win a game. We've been waiting the last five weeks for that win to come, to get it rolling. League is going to be pretty tough, but this win will give us some confidence going into Cathedral this week.

Kim Davis

It's been hard to get a team together. I've had to scramble a bit, and I'm really surprised. Other private schools like Cathedral and Chatard have 15-20 girls. I'm not sure what the problem is this year. Usually I have 10 or 11 girls.

Ron Olsen

Everybody has cathedral ceilings now. That's why they want these big trees.

Susan Vreeland

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

Dennis Hastert

We welcome him to this cathedral of democracy and look forward to hearing from him.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

George Iles

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Edmund Burke

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue

Stephen Harper

I'd anticipated the Liberals would want to delay the election at least until the spring, if not longer, ... But look, if there's a necessity to have a fall election and the NDP ceases to prop up the government, that could still happen.

Drew Brees

We've used the word Superman without the cape. We've used a lot of terms to describe LT. I just think he never ceases to amaze.

Edmund Burke

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Orison Swett Marden

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

A. E. Housman

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Atharva Veda

One fears death because of ignorance but when the 'flame of knowledge' is enkindled in the mind then the 'fear of death' ceases to exist.

Irish Sayings

When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray

Denis Villeneuve

On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

Cecil Rhodes

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

Cecelia Ahern

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Carrie Fisher

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Carl Rogers

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

Carl Sagan

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

Carl Sagan

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

Carl Sagan

The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

Michael Robinet

Toyota is sitting on a pile of money.

Mike Hanson

We did 18 piles yesterday and will keep going today. We plan to be there until Friday.

Antony Beevor

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

John Schuerholz

There's a lot of it still on the table. Big piles of it.

James Smith

It's a pile of rubble now. It's down and gone.

Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

Art Alexakis

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Art Alexakis

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

Bertrand Russell

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

David Amram

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

Carl Sagan

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

Donald Trump

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

Clint Eastwood

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Nancy Grace

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Noreena Hertz

If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Pat Robertson

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

Andy Jackson

We have a lot of talent on this team. We're not going to use somebody being out as an excuse.

Evan Osnos

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

Paul Mooney

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.

Cristie Kerr

You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.