Famous Quotes & Sayings

The tired and thirsty prospector threw himself down at the edge of the watering hole and started to drink. But then he looked around and saw skulls and bones everywhere. "Uh-oh," he thought. "This watering hole is reserved for skeletons.

Dean Karnazes

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.

Dwight Davis

This is just one step closer to reality. Now they've taken it a step further by specifying the services they are going to offer. It's nice that it sort of puts meat on the bones for .NET, but it's still at the vaporware stage. The bulk of the suite is still far from beta (test version).

Jack Roush

Looking back, this is the cleanest we've ever run at Richmond.

Ricky Rudd

The guys did a great job in the pits, ... We just sort of tried to stay out of trouble. We've wrecked out of this race like the last three times. It's usually been a good race track for us and we were lucky we got a good qualifying spot and just tried to keep our nose clean all night.

Dan Bishop

The hardest house to clean is a clean house. If it's immaculate, you've got to show something better than you're walking into.

Steve Foster

The great thing that's happened this year is he has stayed clean from drug addiction. That's a miracle in itself, and more important than the wins and losses, the walks and strikeouts. He's making a huge life step.

Esther Dyson

The increasing incidence of reporting of lost private personal records poses a serious threat to consumer confidence -- and to vendor profits. Yet it is the right thing to do because it is forcing companies to clean up their acts.

Christopher Shays

The important thing is that we clean it up and elect officials who will respect their office and honor their constituents,

Michael Jacobson

The industry has had decades to clean up its act, but instead it has only intensified its marketing.

Scott Peters

A healthy ocean is vital to our economy and well-being. We need clean and healthy oceans to sustain tourism and fisheries.

Irish Proverbs

A handstaff of holly, a buailtin of hazel,a single sheaf and a clean floor.

Ronald Jones

Failure of any member to register by the deadline will be viewed as an indication that the member is not interested in participating/competing in 2006.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Dylan Thomas

After the first death, there is no other.

Dylan Thomas

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Doug Stanhope

I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.

Dwight L. Moody

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

Dwight L. Moody

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Don Marquis

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

Don Marquis

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Dalai Lama

From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth.

When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.

Conrad Aiken

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

Herman Melville

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

Graham Greene

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Homer

In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.

Horace

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Jim Cummings

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

Jim Cramer

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Rebecca H. Davis

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

Saint Bernard

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

Jackee Harry

I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.

Michael Servetus

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

Francis Beaumont

Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.

Robert Conrad

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

Hampton Sides

I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Sandra Ford

It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.

Anna Jameson

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.

Anna Jameson

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

John Shelby Spong

It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world. The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.

Homer

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.

William Howard Taft

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Roberto Bolano

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

Roger Mudd

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Robin McKinley

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.

Wilbur Smith

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

Boethius

Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I found Him in the shining of the stars.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

Alex Borstein

I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.

Alex Borstein

I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It's Cyndi Lauper, and it's called Hat Full Of Stars. She's so underrated.

Alex Borstein

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Eve

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.

Barack Obama

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

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Karin Slaughter

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.