Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Bruce Chatwin

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

David J. C. MacKay

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling...

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Jane Fonda

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

Jane Fonda

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Bobby Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Ali Smith

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Alexander McCall Smith

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.