Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Britten

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

Bill Delahunt

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

Karl Marx

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

Eric Bogosian

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

John Oates

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

Antoine Rivarol

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

James Rogers

Today is as foggy as it's ever been in our industry.

Bob Baffert

We're on the Lost in the Fog trail.

George Foresman

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...

David Mitchell

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Chevy Chase

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Denise Levertov

An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, the grass leaning where deer have looked for apples. The woods from brook to where the top of the hill looks over the fog, send up not one bird. So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Jim Berry

The pellets take the color of the wood that they're eating. They're in a very distinct little pile, like gritty sand.

Cecelia Ahern

The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

Carl Maria von Weber

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

Ashley Tisdale

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.

Arnold Schoenberg

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Aron Ralston

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.

Padgett Powell

Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

Mack Brown

We wanted to make sure he wasn't color blind.

Rachel Bilson

I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.