Famous Quotes & Sayings

Publius Tacitus

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns

Sherwood Schwartz

It was like Burns and Allen, and any twosome really. They fed off each other with physical stuff and vocal.

Bill Bass

As soon as (Cliff) stepped onstage, the rain stopped, the clouds parted, the moon came out. Jimmy Cliff did two hours and completely burns out the crowd. Fela comes out and the rain pours again,

Jonathan Huie

Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.

Joyce Smith

It really wasn't that bad. If you fill it, it burns well. Going out and getting the wood is not easy. It can be time-consuming.

Tom Bunnell

The story about the great things Senator Burns has done for Montana has been told, but we need to reiterate it and remind voters what a tremendous resource Senator Burns is for the state.

Khalil Gibran

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Laurie Graham

Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.

Kevin Love

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

Douglas Hamilton

A good frost is one of the things that really kicks it off,

Charlaine Harris

He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

Thomas Carlyle

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

Rich Zurek

Now with the new images, we're able to watch when the frost comes and goes and we can see that dunes are moving today and aren't just relics from times past.

Tim Krause

We shouldn't have a lot of frost in the ground so it may be a short period of time, may be only three weeks.

John Short

I think it was a shirt or something.

Tracy Morgan

In New York, we get down. In L.A., everybody's pretty much standing around like they're at a keg stand. You got to get the party started, so I just take my shirt off.

Nate Parker

You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.

Dean Winters

On a show like 'Oz,' I was wearing Dickies and a cut-off shirt and a gold cross.

Genesis Rodriguez

I like when a guy has his shirt off and I can see his chest and his abs. When it's all smooth, you can see a lot.

Morris Chestnut

I'm not going to take my shirt off in every movie.

Joan Anderson

We should, can and most of the time do communicate with God directly. To my knowledge, angels are not necessary for anything. But God's creation is abundant, and asking "Why angels?" would be like asking why there are thousands of varieties of trees or stars, when we could get along with so much less. God Himself told us many times that He was sending angels to love and care for us, so He is the one who brought them into our lives. Therefore, even if we don't understand their entire purpose, I vote that we pay attention to them.

Robert Cormier

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

Rob Sheffield

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Richard Paul Evans

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Richard P. Feynman

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

Richelle Mead

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

Richelle Mead

Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

Willie Aames

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

Sarah Silverman

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

Raymond E. Feist

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

William Blake

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

William Blake

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Samuel Richardson

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

William Cowper

And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.

Kristen Bell

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

Miguel de Unamuno

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Sarah Silverman

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Winston Churchill

Keep England White" is a good slogan.

Winston Churchill

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

Rick Riordan

With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.