Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack London

At half past one in the morning, three sides of Union Square were in flames. The fourth side, where stood the great Hotel St. Francis, was still holding out. An hour later, ignited from top and sides, the St. Francis was flaming heavenward.

Brooks Atkinson

Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe.

Harold Clurman

From the holocausts of the day he lights his own flaming torch. It illuminates what we are, what we have wrought, what we must renounce.

Bhagavad Gita

You are licking up all the worlds with Your flaming mouths, swallowing them from all sides.

Pete Boone

He wanted to be here. He knows that he can be a success here. He's been a success before. He knows what it takes.

Chris Moore

He can split through two guys, and nobody knows how he got through,

Craig Smith

He knows the biotech world very well. We need someone like that at this stage.

Larry Coker

He knows that there is that window of opportunity and he has to respond,

Freddy Adu

He knows me, so he'll probably know what I'm up to, but I've matured a lot since I went pro,

Brian Cashman

He knows how we feel. I've talked to (Hendricks).

Chris Steinmetz

He knows how to play offense. He knows how to get into the spaces to get the scoring opportunities.

Bill Tierney

He knows how to keep things in line and organized.

Phil Garner

He knows how much we would like to have him back. I think this is the perfect spot for him.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Mike Purcell

He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Wavy Gravy

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Walter Scott

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Marco Rubio

Just like Trump Tower, he [Donald Trump] must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets.

Phillip Clark

That tower is something you only see on manned launches,

Al-Waleed bin Talal

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Clive James

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Thomas Gray

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Stephen King

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

Philippe Petit

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Chris Hardman

When I was 4 years old, I got to see that tower being put up, and it's been my life. This was a big tragedy today.