Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tryon Edwards

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Sappho

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

Samuel L. Jackson

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

Ursula K. Le Guin

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

Robert South

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

William Alexander

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

William Watson

She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave...

William Hazlitt

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

W. Somerset Maugham

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Tony Vis

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

Joe Ferrer

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Joan Baker

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

Eric Hughes

We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.

Guy Laliberte

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

Jeremy Bulloch

Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

Charles C. Mann

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Helen Oyeyemi

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

Richard Cohen

I was 13 when Dr. King was slain. I didn't have the opportunity to know him. But reading Taylor's books make me feel that I do know Dr. King.

Ashley Johnson

I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

Mary Gordon

I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Mary Hodgkins

I don't know why people aren't using the library frequently. Maybe it's the pull of the new bookstores, maybe it's something else. I'm not sure, but I do know we have computers here -- six for public use in this facility and 14 system-wide -- and our books are free. If you or your child reads a lot, the library is the place to visit.

Mark Lumpkin

So don't have big bushes in your front yard where crooks can easily hide behind? Absolutely. But especially the back of the house and side of the house.

Edmund Morris

The fact that the Reagans were not particularly hospitable to the Bushes during the eight years of the Reagan presidency was a well-known fact in the White House and in Washington. The Bushes were and remain loyal to Reagan's memory, but the interview I had with them in December of 1988 made their private frustrations clear, and it is naturally embarrassing for them to have to confirm those feelings in public.

Vicki Crompton

One night we caught him hiding in the bushes at 10:30, watching our house,

Amara Packwood

He has a jealousy problem. He's knocked a man down before, and he chased an ex-boyfriend out of the field.

Rob Mileski

He has a lot of pride playing defense and he just chased him around all night long. ..He?s got that mentality.

Mary Tillman

Pat chased this guy down and ended up chipping his teeth.

Scott Caan

I remember an umpire called one of our players out, and he clearly wasn't, so my dad chased the umpire around the field.

Scarlett Johansson

The fender-bender was induced by the paparazzi, who chased her for 45 minutes,

Mitt Romney

She's gone down the liberal road, and I've gone down the conservative road, ... You've seen the jobs being chased away from your state, and we've seen jobs grow in our state.

George Foreman

I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.

John Dryden

An horrid stillness first invades the ear, / And in that stillness we the tempest fear.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Kenneth Clarke

I think it sends a message that they are looking for a younger leader.

Les Harrison

We're on the radar now and we're looking to get on the map.

Before Veeder

When he showed up, I wasn't looking for him, but he said he would, and sure enough he did.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Ron Gardenhire

He's pitching like a man on a mission on the mound.

Javier Valentin

I don't know, man. ... What can I say?

Najam Sethi

He will in a way be saying; I am the man in Pakistan. Don't do anything to destabilize me. Don't be misguided by liberals,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who seizes the right moment, is the right man

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Dallas Martin

We were on the same page all day.

Herb Thomas

What's very important is that we are all on the same page and that it's documented.

Kyle Busch

We're not out to let back or do anything slouchy. If we've got to turn a little sideways to make a move, we'll do it.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Luke Grimes

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

George Mason

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Ellen Glasgow

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Joey Ramone

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

P. D. James

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

Nat Turner

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Youth is a season that has no repose.