Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles

Ruth Rendell

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

John Banville

Someone said the best gift a man can give his son is to die young. When you think about it, it's true. I was in my early 30s and I did feel freed by it, awful as it is to confess.

The Wizard

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

Leonard Hamilton

South Carolina will test us physically. They change defenses an awful lot and try to keep you out of rhythm.

Frank Vavala

It was an excellent ,thought-provoking exercise. I think we all learned a great deal and we have an awful lot to learn.

Ellen Burstyn

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.

Keeley Hawes

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

Larry Nelson

We've spent an awful lot of money, but we decided that the number one need was interoperability,

James Marsters

Details in the mcguffins had to be worked out, but it was there. It was a good idea. I'm not going to tell you, because I didn't think of it.

Ben Goldacre

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Raquel Turnbow

Every tenth of a point is important. It's going to take good form, having perfect execution, amplitude, striking the landings. Every detail matters.

Katie Cook

You don't know how much detail people want you to go into, though,

Patty Shea

There's really nothing to worry about, it's not really the outcome or anything like that. It's really about what's going on the field, and some of the things that I'm really happy about is they're playing the game at a more sophisticated level. It's the details that are going to make the difference.

Nicholas Burns

The United States has said that we find the Russian proposal to be interesting. And it might be a good way to proceed for negotiation. We've never said that we accept, you know, every detail on that proposal.

Ronde Barber

We've put a big emphasis on detail this year, and it's paying off. Guys know exactly what they're supposed to do. There is no doubt about what your job is.

Roger Toussaint

We thank riders for their patience and forbearance. We will be providing various details regarding the outcome of this strike in the next several days.

Pete Carroll

We've been talking, and we had a more significant discussion (Wednesday). That is why I am willing to say something in a general sense. There are no details to give. We're in great shape, and things worked out really nice.

Donald Knuth

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

Bob Woodruff

After I explained that, he recognized his statements don't apply,

Tom Heckert

We talked to him at the combine. We talked to him here. He explained everything. That's all I can say about that.

Janet Reno

I explained I was leaving the matter in Mr. Ashcroft's hands.

Greg Lewis

I explained how it worked. At that point in time, he said 'That's what I want to do.' I thought, 'We got six long years. He needs to go to high school, let his hair grow, be idealistic and that will fall by the wayside.' But it never did. He never wavered.

Dan Monnat

She laughed out loud and explained that was a sunflower.

Joseph Wong

I think I have explained many times that there is no alternative to legislation if we want to implement this year's pay reduction with certainty. And I think it is only incumbent on the government to proceed with this piece of legislation,

Kristy Curry

We explained to all of them they were going to have to get their feet set, square their shoulders, be fundamental and knock three's down.

Jill Soloway

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

Ken Tutt

We didn't want to go through what we went through last year. It was a horrible feeling. I would say that has been in the back of my mind this whole season. Every time I went in the gym, I just thought about that loss.

W. S. Gilbert

At the time it was a horrible experience, ... But it all worked out.

Thomas Moore

There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.

Debbie Harris

This was like going to school for us. It's part of our heritage. It would be horrible to see it close.

Michael Young

I think there is a horrible stereotype that suggests that minorities are lacking in terms of their knowledge of the fundamentals of baseball.

Bill Condon

I'm a horrible public speaker.

Tony Massenburg

The 76ers were the worst team in the league. Horrible top-to-bottom. Knowing I wouldn't be there long, I spent a lot of time on South Street and at King of Prussia Mall shopping.

Dan Toombs

We played horrible (in the first half) and we didn't want a repeat of last year. Once we got that lead, we just kept pounding and pounding. We weren't going to let up tonight. It was a huge confidence-booster.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Paul Morris

Everything went really well so we didn't have to do a lot of laps. We spent the rest of the day sorting out the new (adjustable) seat we will be using at Sandown and Bathurst.

Chris Chaffer

There's only one Tory Jackson, and what he did tonight was what he always does. Tonight Tory jump-started us, but the rest of his teammates also responded to the challenge.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

Mark Rosenker

This is a tragedy that should not have happened.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Andrew Solomon

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

D. H. Lawrence

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

David Platt

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

Thomas Sowell

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Stephen Leacock

All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.

Stephen King

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

Tana French

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.