Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

Bruce Springsteen

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary/Out by the gas fires of the refinery/I'm 10 years burning down the road/Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go,

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up

Alan Ball

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

Henry Rollins

You can never change the scenery that surrounds you. You can run from the fists that pound you, but you cannot escape your feelings. I've crawled every sewer from here to there and I've never done it. And I burn silently.

Tom Diana

We wanted this opportunity. This group still feels the burn from losing 42-40 last year.

Don McKinnon

We've had a few problems with fires in the county recently, but we were hoping that the rain would get here before something like this happened. It didn't come in time. After this, I think we will have to consider a burn ban.

Buddy Baker

Well I don't know which one has more money but I'll tell you what. Either one could burn a wet mule with hundred dollar bills.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Jack Jones

With humidity as low as this, you don't watch the fire creep, you just have to get out of its way, because it is moving quickly.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Ann Richards

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

Simone Elkeles

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Tom Clancy

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire.

Stephen King

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Ted Dever

The team did everything we worked on in practice. We worked all week on putting pressure on the net, and they did a great job in the game.

Bill Richards

The team did a great job today. We played the way we needed to in this situation.

Paul Allen

The Super Bowl. Wow! It's mind-blowing if you're a fan, how great it is to think of your team winning the Super Bowl.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Walter Bagehot

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

Myleene Klass

This is my ideal job and I can't wait to get started.

Stephane Dion

It's not an ideal situation, but the show must go on.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Justin Kirk

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

Paul Casey

It was tough. It picked up when we got to 11th and 12th and by then it was fierce. But that's why we play. It's a challenge. Actually, I quite love playing out there.

Kenny Rogers

The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down, Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Lewis Carroll

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.

Morris Peterson

We should be 3-0 on this road trip, but we're 0-3. There are no moral victories here.

Katie Gearlds

There's no moral victory here; we wanted to win and that's why it hurts.

Anatole France

Custom alone regulates morals.

Thomas Hardy

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Jefferson

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

Victor Hugo

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Charles Bukowski

You have my soul and I have your money

Ben Jonson

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Clint Eastwood

I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.

Douglas Horton

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Adele

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

Adam Savage

sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul

Adam Clarke

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

Ani Difranco

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Edward Abbey

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Dr. Seuss

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Dalai Lama

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

Andrei Sakharov

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Amy Tan

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Andre Gide

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Richard E. Byrd

There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Thornton Wilder

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Ellen Glasgow

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

John Cusack

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

Charles Fourier

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.