Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

Benicio Del Toro

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Carolyn Murphy

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

Charles Schumer

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

Charles Handy

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

Jim Doyle

With this designation, we can maintain these islands as they are, guaranteeing they will not be developed.

Elizabeth Pena

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

David Whitehouse

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

Charles Spurgeon

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

Alan Watts

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

Ed Begley, Jr.

Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.

Dean Acheson

The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

Hon Ip

We also worry that birds will stop off in some of the U.S. territories in the Pacific like Guam, and Hawaii.

Siti Supari

We are awaiting for further results. We will continue to investigate whether she had been in contact with anything that related to bird flu,

Chad Olson

There are some challenges we deal with, primarily people management more than bird management.

Kurt Vonnegut

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

Kurt Vonnegut

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

Ed Bradley

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

Bear Grylls

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Bear Grylls

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

Bill Mumy

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

Charlotte Bronte

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

Chester W. Nimitz

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

Charlize Theron

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.