Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.

Gigi Hadid

People can see a picture of my body from the neck down and know who it is because of my beauty marks or whatever you call them, moles. I've always had them, and I've always loved them. Obviously you have to be careful with that; I get them checked regularly and make sure that they're healthy.

Angelina Jolie

I usually try to look for something I haven't done before, a side of me that I haven't completely explored. There's a truth in acting, and there is a very real part of me that can understand that or can believe in that or can see the beauty of that or see the ugliness in that and the statement that needs to be made. So it's all kind of me.

E. F. Benson

There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.

Kourtney Kardashian

I am the worst at doing my hair. I have no clue how to do it; I just feel like I need to go to hair beauty school or something because it's really becoming a problem.

Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Jamie Zawinski

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

Jason Alexander

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Arthur C. Clarke

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Arthur Miller

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Brian Andreas

When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift....

Jane Hirshfield

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

James Wright

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

Anurag Kashyap

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

Brooke Burns

I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair.

Britney Spears

I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark.

Britney Spears

I sold my soul to the industry. I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark. I took a sip from my devil's cup. Slowly It's taking over me. Satan's our lord. Devil's lease.

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Adam Sedgwick

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.

Larry Rice

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Jane Austen

The less said the better.

Bill Hayden

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

Edward Snowden

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Dominic Pacyga

First of all, this is a North Side town. You don't get a lot of respect on the South Side.

Prince Saud

We have nothing to hide, ... And we do not seek, nor do we need, to be shielded.

Vanna White

I'm really just a normal person.

Val Kilmer

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Carlos Moya

You have to play perfect and wish that he is not going to be at his best. I think today these two things happened.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Jane Kaczmarek

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Ally Carter

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

Ann Coulter

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

Adolf Loos

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Alexander Pope

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

E. M. Forster

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Donella Meadows

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'