Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Chinua Achebe

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Chinua Achebe

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

David Hockney

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

William Shakespeare

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

Bill O'Reilly

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

Bill Nye

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

Bertolt Brecht

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Brad Goreski

My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.

Jane Austen

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

John Milton

Fled / Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.

Alfred Marshall

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Ray Davies

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

Tom Waits

and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades

Sylvia Plath

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

Mason Cooley

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

Oscar Wilde

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

Charles Dickens

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

Alan J. Pakula

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Alan Jay Lerner

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Alain Prost

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Al Michaels

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

Al Ries

Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.

Al Ries

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.