Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

Isabella Bird

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.

William Cavendish

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

Ellen G. White

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

Esther Rolle

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.

David A. Bednar

We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.

Brian Bell

Truthfully, we don't want my Weezer affiliation to have any bearing on whether someone likes us or not. It's an entirely different thing. The Space Twins have our own chemistry.

John C. Calhoun

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

Ashton Kutcher

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

Stanley Hauerwas

I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.

William Blake

He who would see the Divinity must see him in his Children.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.

Benjamin Haydon

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Blaise Pascal

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

Baltasar Gracian

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

Deepak Chopra

True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

Alan Cohen

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Thomas Hood

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

C. S. Lewis

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

Mike Church

That was tough, but we split the series and you have to be happy with that knowing you?re going back home for three games.

Patrick Ness

Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

Richard Eyre

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

Richard Eyre

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Ellen Gillespie

We have a lot of happy store owners in town.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Ned Yost

That was the plan all along. We were going to get him out of it, get him comfortable and put him back in the five.

Robin S. Sharma

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

Chuck Wagner

We have a lot of things planned for the evening,

Nonie Darwish

We have to plant the tree, the carob tree.

Tom Graham

We're really going to showcase Southwest Virginia. We plan to do it up right.

Harry Conover

You can have all the plans you want, but unless you test it, you never know.

Bob King

You'll never find a more accommodating plane than the Cessna 120. I was always anticipating more in the years ahead, when time and the like allowed.

Harley Lee

Wind will not save the planet but it is a solution.

Donald Harrison

I suspect what it is is pure stress.

Doug Green

We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.

Joel Bruckenstein

I'd like to see him have more pure value exposure,

Mary Tyler Moore

I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy.

Velimir Ilic

Our victory is as pure as a diamond,

Jeff Corbett

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

James A. Baldwin

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

Dick Armey

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Diane Setterfield

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

David Brooks

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

David Brooks

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

David Shields

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

David Morrell

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

David Mitchell

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

Cam Newton

I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.

Paul McNulty

Ms. Lewinsky's testimony has never been more important than it is now,

Christopher Low

It's the same tone that he took in his testimony two weeks ago.

Michael Ramsey

The value of the testimony of such witnesses is about zero.

Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Sam Brandon

I thought he showed he was ready,'' Walls said.

John B. Keane

There were no ceilings. The walls were collapsed.

Geoffrey Chaucer

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.