Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

I did send flowers and I did send a note

Paul Simon

Hello lamp post, what ya knowin'? I come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain't you got no rhymes for me? do do do do... feelin' groovy.

Rob Sheffield

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

Richard Whately

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

Ryan Howard

Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me? When a guy can do that NO days a year.

Umberto Eco

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

Trina

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

William S. Burroughs

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

Woodrow Wilson

The object of love is to serve, not to win

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

Paula Gonzalez

He just had a longtime want to be in the military.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Matisyahu

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Richard Paul Evans

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

Richard John Neuhaus

For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.

Richard Dawkins

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

Neal Stephenson

... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

James Joyce

Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

Joko Beck

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

Emraan Hashmi

My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.

Kenny Loggins

Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me.

Arthur Baer

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Bruce Schneier

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.