Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Miller

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

Cassandra Clare

Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

Cassandra Clare

Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades.

Cassandra Clare

Well,” Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, “you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all.” “I don’t,” Gabriel said. “I just dislike him.” He pointed at Will. “Dear me,” said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. “Is it because I’m better-looking than you?

George Herbert

He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

Georges Duhamel

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

Gary Lineker

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

Eoin Colfer

I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler?

Jack Abramoff

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Brett Somers

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Archie Panjabi

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Arthur Mitchell

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Aziz Ansari

I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

Ayelet Waldman

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Archie Panjabi

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Carl Zimmer

Everybody can digest milk when they're little.

Alan Furst

I read very little contemporary anything.

Alanna Ubach

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

Bella Thorne

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

Bar Refaeli

I don't know who Little Richard is.

Billy Collins

I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.

Blaise Pascal

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.