Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Meyer

We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man, so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest.

Jackson Brown

Where the touch of the lover ends And the soul of the friend begins There's a need to be separate and a need to be one And a struggle neither wins.

Pankaj Patel

It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

Ruth Ross

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.

Sydney Smith

A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr

John Challenger

It's a sign of company maturation as it begins to focus on its core areas.

John Burroughs

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins toblame somebody else and stops trying.

Ed Muniz

This city has lost so much. It's time New Orleans begins on the road to recovery.

Abdel Alani

This capable team will be entrusted with preparing the defense case when the trial begins and disputing its legality and procedures that deny the President justice.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him.

Charlaine Harris

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Andre Holland

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

Rick Moody

writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it

Arthur Conan Doyle

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Audrey Hepburn

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Sean Ross

When you talk to guys in the record industry you do hear a lot of, 'Wow, she's 30, she's 35,' as if that completely ends any discussion.

Cheryl Strayed

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Richard Foreman

Until South Korea ends its political transition, it might be perceived to be a little unseemly for us (America) to move forward.

Michael Ian Black

All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Chogyam Trungpa

The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.

Charlie Hunter

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

Bob Marley

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

Diana Gabaldon

That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

Mark Roesler

As we go over time, personalities like Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, these personalities have become brands.

Shavo Odadjian

It's a song, but it's a jam because it's without vocals, that's why I say that.

Jawn Murray

For many people, the Oscar can be the kiss of death, but Jamie is showing that he has staying power in this thing for the long haul. He just keeps getting better.

Huey Lewis

This is where people get it wrong. Some see us as a pop band, but we never have been just a pop band. Some see us as an '80s band. But if we started today, we'd be a jam band.

Dule Hill

It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you doing?' when James Roday first started improvising. Steve and the writing staff write it that way. They leave gaps.

William Shakespeare

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

E. F. Benson

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

Jack Straw

The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent,

Billie Joe Armstrong

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Mike Utley

The problem with lightning is, it kills 10 percent of the people it strikes. The 90 percent that live wish they didn't.

Steven Cummer

We should be able to make new connections between the lightning strength and speed required to produce these phenomena in the upper atmosphere.

Mark Twain

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Coco Chanel

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Confucius

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

Robert Kennedy

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never cast pearls before swine.

Stone Gossard

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

Victor Hugo

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Sylvia Plath

They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

Michael Bay

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

Melissa Joan Hart

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

Charles Caleb Colton

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Dickens

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Stanley

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you.

Charles Spurgeon

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Carlos Mencia

Here, let's go to my dressing room, and I promise, I'll only put it in for a second.

Charles Hodge

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

Bill Maher

Anyone who tells you that they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you dont. How can I be so sure? Because I dont know and you do not possess mental powers that I do not.

Bob Hope

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Ato Essandoh

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

Antonis Samaras

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Denis Leary

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

Denis Leary

Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

Dee Snider

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

Dee Dee Ramone

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

Chad Kroeger

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

Cassie Steele

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

Chris Shelton

I'm striking out way too much. I'm not making any adjustments, either.

Scott Gomez

It's like striking out in baseball. It's a long way back to the bench.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

T.O. Sterrett

There's a lot of talent around, but sometimes talent can't find opportunity.

Jason Fojt

It's a tale of two teams. We just need to put it together.

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Swen Nater

The talent is better but your teamwork is not.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Barbara Tuchman

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

Charlton Heston

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Ai Weiwei

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.