Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Colton

The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm

Johann Lamont

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Alan Stern

Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system.

Kelly Brownell

One of the brightest thinkers in our field, he produced fundamental changes in the way the world thought about issues of human abilities. Remarkably productive, but always with time to share a laugh and wisdom with those younger than him, Seymour has made a very real difference.

David Meadows

One of her teachers said she was one of the brightest students she'd had in 20 years. She was so strong in math and science. She excelled.

Juan Maldonado

I think they are the brightest students I've ever taught.

Terry Wogan

Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.

Dave Carlson

Most of the functions of today's cars are computer controlled, leading not only to much higher price tags, but also for technicians with computer skills and excellent diagnostic abilities. By encouraging the brightest high school students to pursue education and training in this field, we are ensuring the country will have qualified technicians in the years to come.

Rose McIver

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

Andrew Barrett

As we wrote today, it's always darkest before dawn. I think most of the selling is probably overdone.

Jon Burnham

There's a saying that it's always darkest before dawn,

Tim Lambesis

I see the next record as being a little more diverse than what we've done before. We will take it to the extreme. Some of them will be very mechanical and heavy and others very rhythmic. We're also going to incorporate a sense of dynamics and some of the songs will be the darkest we've done.

R. Robinson

Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.

Donna Favors

You are only as sick as your deepest, darkest Secret.

Olivia Thirlby

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

Bobby Burton

The hottest school in the country, period. And it has been for three years.

Mats Sundin

They are one of the hottest teams in the league. We'll take a win any way we can.

Lauren Bacall

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

Luis Gonzalez

It will be an interesting September, ... The hottest team in September is the team that will go on.

Jeff Long

I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.

Terry Olson

However, they are probably the hottest team in Div. I right now with 15 straight wins.

Michael O'Donoghue

I am Hollywood's hottest young, middle-aged director, but I'll write out of New York because I don't want to become a salad head. That's what you become out there: a guacamole dip.

Stephanie Dietz

We viewed this tie as a win. It was a successful game. We just outplayed one of the hottest teams in the Valley right now.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

William Gilmore Simms

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

Valerie Jarrett

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

William Gurnall

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

Walter Scott

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

Dan Sharp

I haven't experienced a storm like this in a long time.

Craig Smith

It's pruned a little but really isn't all that different. Things don't get big down here because they get pruned by storm after storm after storm.

Danielle Brown

There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That's been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms

Cedric Richmond

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Deepak Chopra

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.