Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Brewer

When you said you were a battered husband, you intended that someone battered you?

Phil English

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing. It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.

Phil English

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing, ... It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.

Jose Gomez

It was a totally technical rebound after the decline of Thursday. The stocks that stood out were blue-chips that were battered previously, especially the service and telecommunications sector.

Eugene Kennedy

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

Peter Cardillo

Dell Computer ( DELL : Research , Estimates ) is battered down here, revenue growth put into question as the whole technology group has been put into question but I think, you know, going forward that Dell will be a winner here and I think it should be bought at these levels.

Alan Greenspan

The system was holding up ... the American economy kept getting battered and battered and battered and it was still standing and indeed, as of Sept. 10, it was still standing,

Edmund Waller

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.

Ellen Potter

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

David Hathaway

We're basing this on the fact that the large cycles tend to start early, and that's what happened with five of the last six big cycles.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.

Daniel Yergin

This is not the first time that the world has 'run out of oil. It's more like the fifth. Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of the oil industry.

Paul Dergarabedian

There are these cycles in Hollywood. Part of that is once there's one success, everyone tries to emulate the success,

Edmund Spenser

The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway.

Ted Forrest

We've seen these cycles of ebb and flow half a dozen times or more since the war began. One can hope that this is a permanent decline, but it's still much too early to reach that conclusion.

Neely Tamminga

We think 'home' fundamentals are tied to product cycles and not the housing cycles.

Douglas Leone

We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.

Michael Geeser

Every year, we see cycles where prices go up and down and up again. What we've seen in 2006 is that cycle of the ups and downs has happened much earlier than usual.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Alan Watts

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

Alan Parker

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Alan Ball

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

Al Pacino

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Mariel Hemingway

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

Nick Woodman

Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Amy Heckerling

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Swedish Proverb

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Russ Feingold

The refusal gives rise to a reasonable inference that the administration has something to hide here. The administration has done this nominee no service by maintaining its intransigent position.

Bill Alexander

We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively.

Greg Cipes

Usually for cartoons, I record them in the mornings from 9 A.M. to noon, then I have the rest of the day to do on camera. It actually gives me time to work on my own projects.

Bob Venero

With the lower-priced models we now have a door-opener; this gives us an opportunity to play where we've never played before.

Leon Redbone

I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.

Terri Mitchell

We knew without Carolyn on the court, everyone had to do something extra. There are a lot of things Carolyn gives us that we needed to make up for, and we did a lot of great things tonight.

Ivory Latta

The more pressure we put on the guards, that gives Candace more touches, and then she will probably end up getting tired, which she did a lot.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Helen Sharman

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Charles Dickens

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Charles Dickens

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Spurgeon

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

Charles Spurgeon

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

Alan Watts

The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

Charles Dickens

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

Alan Watts

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

Alan Watts

If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

Alan Bean

The moon is very rugged.

Alan Bean

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

Alan Bean

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Alan Bean

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

China Mieville

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

Eddie Izzard

You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Swami Vivekananda

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

Timothy Radcliffe

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Rumi

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Honore de Balzac

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Shunryu Suzuki

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Samuel Liles

They're not stealing from us, they're stealing from God. This is God's house.

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Creed Bratton

Honestly, I love stealing things.

T. S. Eliot

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

Roma Downey

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

Charles Sturt

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.

Alanis Morissette

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

Alan Bennett

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Al Pacino

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

David Wain

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

David Hume

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

Denis McDonough

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Paul Tagliabue

He was mythic. He symbolizes football, and, more importantly, he symbolizes leadership.

Winston Scott

This symbolizes a whole new way of doing business.

Kate Bush

I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

Kyle Freeman

There are a lot more tracks in the woods.

Tom Jenkinson

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

Chris Powell

It's going to give our speedway one of the most competitive tracks on the circuit.