Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Flinn

I think it does give the appearance of preferential treatment with respect to gender or with respect to rank,

Charles Darwin

Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteries of mysteries -- the fist appearance of new beings on earth,

Bill Swain

He really wants to make this event his first public appearance in Maine. We just love him here and he will get a real hero's welcome.

Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg

David Menlow

The IPO market gives the outward appearance of a rebound but that is a false sense of confidence. The market is firming up and there are definitely upgrades but not all the signs are clear.

Allen Iverson

The first appearance is always going to be the most memorable. This one is special because I'm 30 years old and you hear all the negative things about your game declining and at this point you should be breaking down. I still go out and play hard every night and give it my all. I guess the fans recognize that because they put me in the All-Star game.

Wayne Patterson

All this had been accomplished without giving the appearance of bullying Korea that could raise questions in the United States about Japan's true intentions. In short, Japan could plausibly cite humanitarian concern for the welfare of overseas Koreans that would on the surface appear to be legitimate.

Henry Hudson

These I saw there, in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being built with an arched roof.

Napoleon Hill

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

Dani Shapiro

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

Edward Fitzgerald

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness- / And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

E. B. White

I remembered the gun I had beneath my seat.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

Tim Woolston

It's symptomatic of issues going on beneath the surface. They're still trying to get their house in order. Their stock hasn't been doing very well.

Mack McLarty

This move is vintage Jerry Jones. Signing Terrell Owens is stunning in a lot of ways, but not when you know Jerry. He's always been bold, but beneath his larger-than-life personality, he's very, very thoughtful and creative.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.

Robert Graves

You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath / My writing arm.

Pedro Noguera

The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, ... Poverty is right beneath the surface.

William Cowper

Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid / In every bosom where her nest is made.

Joseph Addison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Stevie Smith

The Englishwoman is so refined/ She has no bosom and no behind.

Genghis Khan

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

Genghis Khan

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

And is there any moral shut/ Within the bosom of the rose?

Charles Dickens

It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.

Adam Mansbach

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

William Wordsworth

The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

Matt Mullenweg

Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.

Charles Munger

I know someone who lives next door to what you would actually call a fairly modest house that just sold for $17 million. There are some very extreme housing price bubbles going on .

Jim Winkler

Plans are moving away for paying 100 percent. People shouldn't be surprised to see their $10 co-payment plan replaced by one that has a $300 deductible and only covers 80 percent of the charges.

A. E. van Vogt

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.

Miroslav Satan

I had a number of things in mind, depending on how he reacted. He covers the net really well. I was able to find a space.

Rose Kennedy

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Susan Barnes

They say time heals but it doesn't actually. It covers up the wounds and then they open up again.

Steve Mullins

It's odd. But he covers a lot of the net and does great things with his size and uses it to his advantage, so more power to him.

James Glasgow

This plan only covers the pond, which is only a portion of the problem.

Daniela Ruah

It's a birthmark called nevus of Ota. It covers the whole white of my eye and darkens it. The square of the eye, the white part, is completely dark on my right eye, not just the iris.

David Snyder

We prefer United for its service and because it covers most national routes,

Shantel VanSanten

I went to an all-girls' school with 43 people in my class, so dances were small. I always went with girlfriends or a blind date.

Sheila Gamo

Interpretative dances and songs, ranging from rap to jazz to modern, make up the full-length musical, which lasts for an hour and 30 minutes.

Madison Pettis

I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

Poncho Sanchez

It really started getting played in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s with Latin dances like the mambo, cha-cha-cha, samba, and bossa nova. Today, we have the salsa and meringue.

Chuck Mangione

I remember, when I grew up, going to dances was just a lot of fun. But when people get together now, music is the first thing that happens.

Suzanne Shaw

Johnny is an all-rounder, he has the right look, he sings well, dances well and is perfect for the role.

Robert Harris

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.

Robert Schumann

It is music's lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart

Albert Camus

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer

Fred Eckhard

The information on the diamond trading, we have nothing further on but what we have seen in the press, ... the problems within the leadership of the mission have been well known to the secretary-general for some time.

Prince Philip

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

William Alger

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind

Kyle Hain

Each diamond is unique, but first and foremost you want a diamond to pop and sparkle.

Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Everyone wants to come to the June diamond jubilee celebration with grace and dignity. We don't want to have protests in the streets.

Sathya Baba

Diamond, Why do you seek a diamond to give you joy? Seek instead the state of DIE MIND, which will give you pure and lasting joy.

Carol Anderson

Diamond Pet Foods has cooperated fully with the FDA during its investigation.

Jim Ryan

We got a great response. People really love those old Simon & Garfunkel and Neil Diamond songs that we don't get to play very often on Lite.

Susan Morgan

We want to get Diamond Lake over the hump and get people up there enjoying the lake again,

William Wordsworth

Truths that wake To perish never

Vance Havner

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

Umberto Eco

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

Sarah Vowell

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

Wayne Dyer

In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.

Virginia Woolf

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

Wayne Dyer

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!

Yann Martel

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

Neale Donald Walsch

In this complex world, we all need God's Divine wisdom and guidance more than we ever have before.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

Roberto Torres

Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.

Robert Richardson

Her lungs were fine. It was just her heart.

Sandra Ritchey

Her heart had just been working too hard.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

John Tortorella

He's been so much-maligned all year long but tonight his heart was as big as the building, especially in that third period he played.

Randy Rutledge

What do you tell the guys? All I can say is I'm proud of them. They got it done heart to win for each other.

Tommy Amaker

I thought our veterans led the way for us with a lot of toughness and heart.

Kazi Shams

Judge people not by what they did but by what they can do.

Ira Sorkin

Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes.

A.J. Chilson

Judge a poem like you would judge a person, for it was the person who wrote the poem.

Dick DeGuerin

He should not be the judge to preside over the trial proceedings relating to a person to whom he is opposed politically.

Tim Ward

I think the jury was in a position to judge the credibility of the testimony.

Frank Cappiello

I think the judge has been very negative toward the company,

Tony Dungy

I think that is probably how he'll be judged in the short run.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Jeff Gundy

I don't judge people by how they come off the bus,

Renee Zellweger

I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.

Umberto Eco

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

Woody Allen

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

William J. Clinton

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way.

Roberto Bolano

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

Ty Burrell

I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me.

William Butler Yeats

Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit....

Walter Scott

Give me an honest laugher.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

Stacy Pendleton

To get her back is a big lift for us.

Jon Burnham

If not for the strong earnings, I think the market would be a lot weaker than it is. But that's not enough to lift the market out of a trading range. There's just too much uncertainty for markets to move higher.

David Brown

It kind of skipped and hopped, touched down and lifted back up. So there was not really a trail, but you can see where it went.

Luk Boral

It was like a stone lifted off my back.

Chris Gill

It's like 100 pounds has been lifted off our shoulders.

John Kelly

It's a pretty simple rescue. I just lower down the rigging and then lift out the sled.

Bob Hofman

And again, we got a big lift from our bench.

Peter Green

The market lifted on an anticipated resolution of the port issue. But it's a very temporary thing; it's not going to lift us out of any of the nervousness that's been pulling markets lower. It's a one-day love affair.

Andruw Jones

They're a real solid team now, Maybe I'm not lifting enough weights.

Richelle Mead

I brought my lips down to hers, and it was like everything that had ever happened to me had simply been a warm-up for this moment, that this was where my life truly began.

Sarah Palin

The GOP needs to live the planks of its platform, not just offer lip service.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

All women are lips, nothing but lips.

Rick Riordan

Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred?

Helen Fisher

You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it,

Jon Huertas

Once I saw Tamala Jones in person, I was like, 'I gotta put my lips on her!'

Walter McManus

This is like putting lipstick on a pig. They're a higher-cost producer than most of their competition. To be the low-price leader, you really need to be the low-cost producer as well.

Fred Bentley

This is not just putting lipstick on the big chicken.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Oscar Wilde

Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities

Jim Tracy

It's better than nice. Better than nice. That says a lot. The mere suggestion of it says a lot.

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Benjamin Franklin

A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.

Jane Greer

My mouth was too large, my eyes turned out, and my legs mere toothpicks.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Rebecca West

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

William F. Buckley, Jr.

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

George Williams

He's got serious speed. He still has a lot of development to work on. I think he can get down in the 46's.

Robert Hall

He's a threat to society, he's a menace. We have a very serious situation here.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Cal Cochran

If you're serious about it, you have to put in your time. Do more than just show up for the all-star game.

Roberta Baskin

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Brian Billick

I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.

Trent Reznor

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

P. G. Wodehouse

Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

Matthew Henry

Their own second and sober thoughts.

Dana Plato

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

Friedrich Schiller

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Louis Pasteur

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

Niecy Nash

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

Nawal El Saadawi

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

R. D. Laing

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

Plutarch

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

David Hume

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

Elie Wiesel

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.