Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

Isabella Bird

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

Isabella Bird

The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.

Giles Foden

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Clay Shirky

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

John Remington

The pilots would argue they're free to strike, and the airline would argue they legally couldn't. It's unclear. But the pilots are satisfied they could legally strike. And if they can't, they may do it anyway.

Niki Lauda

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

Young Jeezy

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Yolanda Adams

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yanis Varoufakis

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Tina Turner

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Imelda May

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Gin Wigmore

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

Young Jeezy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

David Cross

I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day.

Rickie Fowler

It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.

Matthew Perry

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

Kathy Valentine

You don't do it for some end result, hoping you get signed or get this cool gig or get a big following. It's got to matter to you.

Michael Lamb

You'll cut 20 percent or more off your heating or cooling bills.

Yaron Danon

You just heat the crystal from room temperature to about 130 degrees. Then you can use it while it's heating or while it's cooling. We're doing it while it's cooling. We're letting it cool back to room temperature, and while it's doing that it's accelerating ions, so it's like a particle accelerator that's very simple.

Dexter Holland

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

R. Robinson

It'd be cool to come back here. But we have to see what happens.

Zac Efron

Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.

Andy Nash

That would put us on the dry side of the system.

Jerry Wood

We just didn't have any rainfall all year long. It's been mighty dry here.

Kristina Wilfore

Typically off-year elections are used for two things: one is a sort of testing ground, as a dry run for the next year. And two: you get a real eclectic mix of issues that don't have an over-arching theme but that's a little different this year.

Mohamed El-Erian

Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.

Dale Jarrett

You like to think every time you come here you have that opportunity at least, but you look at it and we've had kind of a dry spell as far as running well here. We've won some poles and things, but that's not really what we're after.

Ryan Howard

Just keeping it real. I was at home. I think they were taking it out and were just getting ready to dry it.

Bob Farrell

We haven't had rain for three weeks and everything is dry so they should be very careful.

Paul Desmond

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini.

Howard Staunton

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.

Greg Yurek

We're exceeding some of the models from which we worked.

Ron Wilson

I thought he could score 40 this year, and now he's there. He's exceeding all my expectations as far as I'm concerned.

Timothy Evans

As with most storms, we think the fear factor is exceeding the likely impact on production here.

Alan Shepherd

We are exceeding our management levels for these two wild horse populations.

James Thurber

seems to be exceeding the quota one or two.

Nigel Wright

We are very pleased with how Jeff and his team have gotten off to a running start at Spirit. They are meeting or exceeding our expectations on every metric that we had set out.

Greek proverb

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small

Mark E. Smith

The players are exceeding our expectations. The kids are hustling and not getting down if they make a mistake.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.

John Brady

The outstanding ones are usually gone. You have to start over with freshman and sophomore talent.

Kevin Campbell

The pattern we see is when students have a rough freshmen year, they come back for their sophomore year. But if they have the same pattern, they start to lose hope and start looking at other options; sometimes it?s night school, sometimes it?s a GED.

Bobby Womack

I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.

Brandon Flowers

I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'

Hutton Jones

That was huge to get that done and for a freshman to come through.

Rose Nix

We have a new set of kids every year and new routines. Everything's fresh for everybody. It's a real thrill for all the girls to make it down to state. We've been there, but it's something new every year.

Dijon Thompson

We hadn't been to the tournament since my freshman year, so it was very big. It was very special to get back my last year. To go out in the first round, it was kind of disappointing, but at U of A, it was tough.

Billy Hite

We'll rotate them every series. You'll have a fresh guy in there at the start of every series, and I think that's important. Whoever is hot at the end of the game will be in there.

Yahya Jammeh

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

Harvey Rosenthal

The only reason they're putting them there is that mental health law allows them to.

Barry O'Farrell

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Barack Obama

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

Richard Lamm

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Ashley Tisdale

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Bill Vaughan

The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

Gail Kelly

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

C. S. Lewis

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Cathy Rigby

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Bill Vaughan

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

William Shakespeare

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

William Channing

Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see

Nic Taunton

I'm speechless. I'm so overwhelmed with joy that I get this opportunity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

C. S. Lewis

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

Catullus

There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

Catullus

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her...

Catullus

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Cecelia Ahern

His entired life bundled into wenty refuse sacks. His and her memories bundle away in Holly's mind. Each item unearthed dust, tears, laughter and memories. She bagged the items, cleared the dust, wiped her eyes and filed away the memories.

Cecelia Ahern

But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

Bill Hicks

Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

Bertrand Russell

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

Anthony Hitt

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Barack Obama

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

William Shakespeare

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

William Shakespeare

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

William Shakespeare

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

William Shakespeare

And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Aaron Boone

We realize there is more at stake, but I promise you we'll go there with the same attitude. That's just the way this team is.

C. S. Lewis

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Carl Safina

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Berenson

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Bill Vaughan

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Bertrand Russell

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

Zack Moritz

That whole spring and summer, I was in the gym.

William Shakespeare

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

William Shakespeare

The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

William Shakespeare

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away...

William Shakespeare

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

William Shakespeare

So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

William Shakespeare

O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

William Shakespeare

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

William Shakespeare

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

William Shakespeare

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

Aulus Gellius

The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.

Alfred North Whitehead

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Bob Wagner

That one (cell) was particularly vigorous and long-lasting.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Geoff Mulgan

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Ray Bradbury

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

Michelle Malkin

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Michel de Montaigne

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.