Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Bruce Chatwin

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

David J. C. MacKay

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

Clive Owen

When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.

John Walsh

As far as tourist season, we plan our projects to minimize impact ... because you're driving 40,000 to 50,000 vehicles a day through our office,

Jim Raper

Our driving force is to do an extremely high-quality job for the lowest possible price. Ultimately, that saves our taxpayers money.

Terry Piazza

People don't realize it because he's small, but Cory has really been driving the ball. People may underestimate his ability. He's a strong kid.

Larry Starkey

People fail to slow down and pay attention. People keep driving like it is a sunshiny day, and it isn't.

Richard Friend

And that won't be easy on this tight driving track.

Georg Hackl

The small driving mistakes were annoying, but it's important today that I wrapped up a place in the seeded group at the Olympics.

Richard Grasso

A day doesn't go by when the market isn't on the most skittish and volatile path that I've seen in my 35 years at the Big Board. What's driving that is the simple insecurity, or if you will uncertainty of outcome.

Burton Greenwald

That shouldn't be a driving reason to invest in a new fund. It's appealing, but only after making your decision.

Robert Bach

You want people to see that we have the right mix of franchises. You have to have European football and American football. You have to have basketball, some action-adventure, some shooting games, some driving games, some character-driven games. So showing that we have that mix is important.

David Bailey

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

Thomas Nashe

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

Chrissy Teigen

He [Donald Trump] makes himself look like an idiot every single day.

Winston Churchill

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

William P. Young

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

Rose Bergquist

I haven't got to meet him in person yet. I would probably be a blubbering idiot if I did.

Kasey Kahne

I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.

Lindsay Pearce

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

Laura Anne Gilman

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.