Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Tove Jansson

But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

Robert Johnson

Don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand.

Roddy Doyle

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Robertson Davies

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

Robert Stack

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Annie Lennox

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.

Rita Mae Brown

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

Rene Redzepi

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

Samuel Adams

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

T. S. Eliot

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

Rick Riordan

They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.

Rick Riordan

I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

Tinie Tempah

I can wear a suit, sweatpants, a long tee shirt, and a denim jacket all at the same time.

David Horn

Some people like to go fishing, ... We like to work cattle.

Linda Pierce

Some people know how to teach, and some know how to do.

Elizabeth Jones

Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring.

Wynne Wakley

Some people just can't take the pressure or the stress. Those are the people who we try to weed out.

Martin Freeman

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.

Bill Bullard

Some people have spent a lot of time on this proposal already,

Richard Prince

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Ian Jackson

Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to go out and talk about it.