Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless?

Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes, kismet happens.

Leonard Woolf

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Gail Carriger

Lady Maccon.” “By George, Boots! How the deuce can you possibly tell that there is Lady Maccon?” queried the other top-hated gentleman. “Who else would be standing in the middle of a street on full-moon night with a raging ruddy fire behind her, waving a parasol about?” “Good point, good point.

Maggie Stiefvater

Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will.

Haruki Murakami

The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories.

Haruki Murakami

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

Joe Walsh

The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.

James Patterson

Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Michael Jackson

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.

Howard Dean

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.

Honore de Balzac

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

Ice Cube

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

Isak Dinesen

And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.

Isak Dinesen

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

Idris Elba

It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

Cedric Benson

They just keep saying I need to know the playbook, but if I'm never out there it would be hard to know how much I do know, ... My time is going to come. They're going to throw me out there in the fire and I've got to perform.

Jodi Picoult

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

Kathryn Minshew

If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

Katherine Paterson

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Karen Traviss

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

Mark Twain

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Matt Bomer

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

Mary MacLane

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.