Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a ""crowned head,"" although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester:""If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester.""""The reason, Sire, that you would thrive,"" The fool said --""if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit."" --Oogum Bem

Mike Hanson

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

Mike Williamson

He's keeping us alive for stretches of games when we're not playing our best.

Ben Woodside

He had dreamed of playing there his whole life. He told me right after the game he was the happiest man alive right now.

Nyoman Kandun

He is alive and so far is in stable condition.

William S. Burroughs

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

Samuel Beckett

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

William Cowper

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

Joe Girardi

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

Margarita Chaves

His pupils were dilated. I'll never forget that look in his eyes.

William Wilberforce

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Carl Jung

But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.

Carl Jung

He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.

Willie Nelson

We may have been poor, but my sister, Bobbie, and I were taught to hold our heads up high. Whether you're young or old, when you meet someone, you look 'em in the eye and speak up so you can be heard. When you look a person in the eye, you're not trying to hide who you are, plus you get a pretty good idea of who they are.

Christy Romano

I have good eyes, so I usually play them up so they stand out. I do a liner around the top of my eye and half way into the bottom.

Hank Williams

I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

Chuck Price

I don't know that we're seeing eye to eye on value. I think we're close.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Truman Capote

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Roald Amundsen

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Samuel Hoffenstein

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Sally Schneider

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Roger Ebert

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

Jose Guillen

We're poor people who live here and we don't know where to go. The situation is tough. We'd like to know specifically what they're going to do and not leave us stranded on the street.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Woody Allen

In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.

Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Jonathan Swift

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

Terence Newman

I plead the fifth. Any time I say something about returning punts, I never do. I'm going to leave it to Bill. We'll find out soon enough.

Terence Newman

I plead the fifth, ... Any time I say something about returning punts, I never do. I'm going to leave it to Bill. We'll find out soon enough.

Jan Hammer

If you think about it, the word "composing" or to compose, means to put together. So, you have to know what to put together and what to leave out.

Burmese Proverb

If you take big paces you leave big spaces

Joseph Allen

God's timing in moving me down here was perfect,

Alan Black

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

Rob Reiner

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it.

Richard John Neuhaus

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

Richard Whately

Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.

Richelle Mead

You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.” He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste.

Richelle Mead

You’re presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I’ve changed my mind.” “You see, that’s just it.” There he was again, moving into my space. “I think you like the ‘other things.

Richelle Mead

i will always love you." "no you won't. you'll move on. So will i.

Richelle Mead

It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.

John Dos Passos

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Roberto Bolano

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walter Lippmann

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Tim Ryan

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

Glenn Richardson

I think it's time we start talking about it,

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.