Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

Eddie Irvine

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

Antonio Tabucchi

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Agnes Smedley

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

Natasha Trethewey

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

Bob Novak

was the runner-up to Roberts in the first selection process, but the word in legal circles is that she did not do well in her interview with the president and now is out of the picture.

Buddy Hackett

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

Daymond John

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.

Bertolt Brecht

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

Edward Snowden

Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.

C. S. Lewis

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Aristophanes

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Eckhart Tolle

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

Author unknown

To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.

Author unknown

Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.

Jeremy Affeldt

At least I didn't give up a crooked number. It was a good feeling today, I can tell you that.

Jim Montgomery

This has been a crooked path and a lot of obstacles to get over.

Source Unknown

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.

Bible Bible

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

Jack Finney

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

Ralph Roberts

Every state needs to do it and share the data. A crooked loan officer could leave Utah, for example, and come to Michigan to do that same fraud. Having a license requirement is not gong to stop mortgage fraud, but it would at least be another piece to slow it down.

William Butler Yeats

O love is the crooked thing,There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is in it.

Daryl Newcomb

One of his legs was shorter than the other one. But his spine was also crooked and it drew his hip up, so it evened out just enough that he didn't walk with a limp.

Jacob Eller

That way, we'll be able to raise some support from the Crooked Road and from the state to pay for the trip. That's in May and we'll be over there for two weeks.