Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Fox

I think when people watch this show and get to the end of the episode, they're dying to find out what's going to happen next week and they really don't have any idea.

Walter Long

I think that dying is something that Napoleon has thought about from the very moment the sentence was pronounced in his case.

Raymond Chandler

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

Evelyn Waugh

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

Kenny Perry

His dying wish was to meet me and play two holes.

Kurt Cobain

His dying seemed to give total strangers a sense of integrity they never had wanted while he was alive.

Gibson Sibanda

If our president is not released immediately, the dying regime must brace itself for a long winter of intense but peaceful mass action.

Eunice Newcomer

I know dying has got to be a process that no one really wants to go through but it's just not fair for the survivors to have to make this decision.

Rod Grover

I'm glad you said that. I've been dying to get up there for a hike.

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

J. K. Rowling

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it.

Mary Shelley

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

Lewis Carroll

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

Robert Vaughan

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Lewis Carroll

'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

Henry Williamson

Long ago, when moose roamed in the forest at the mountain of the Two Rivers, otters had followed eels migrating from ponds and swamps to the seas.

Mary Shelley

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Van Morrison

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.

Elizabeth Banks

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

Adam Levine

All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they seem kind of kooky and crazy. I like their vibe.

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

Joe Johnson

Back then ... if you wanted the lyrics to a song you had to play it on the record and stop it, and then write it down, then play it again, then stop it,

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Boris Pasternak

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Richard Madden

I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.

David Lodge

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

David Hudson

If you look at the national numbers, we're doing very well in our economy.

Al Nash

If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

William Safire

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

Paul Eldridge

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Martin Gardner

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Samuel Johnson

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.