Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

William Wordsworth

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

William Morris Hunt

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

Sarah Addison Allen

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

Richard P. Feynman

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Sarah Caldwell

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Saoirse Ronan

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

Richard Rorty

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

Robert Pozen

Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.

Sanford I. Weill

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

Wallace Stevens

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Vincent Kartheiser

Storytelling is the important thing.

Warren Buffett

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

William S. Burroughs

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Samuel Rogers

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Nicholas Sparks

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

Lauren Oliver

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

Martin Amis

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

Tennessee Williams

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

Peter Fonda

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

Phil Collins

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.