Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

Quentin Jammer

He doesn't keep me up. I think the more you worry the worse you play. If you get too worried about him, you're going be worried about him on Sunday when you play and it's going take you out of your game.

Truman Capote

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Samuel Pepys

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Vance Havner

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

Sara Paretsky

And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

Sara Paretsky

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.

Rose Wilder Lane

Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater proprietyand stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

Richard Dawkins

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

Woody Allen

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

William Shatner

You have to continuously fail. You fail at something, then you get over it, then you fail some more. And after you fail, there's always something new there. And that something new can be really interesting.

Robert D. Kaplan

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

Robin Wright

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

Salvador Dali

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

William Randolph Hearst

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

William Boyd

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

William Kennedy

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

Richard M. Nixon

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Michelle Malkin

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Jeff Bridges

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Jean Baudrillard

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.