Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Bai Ling

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Augustine Birrell

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

Augustine Birrell

The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.

Aubrey McClendon

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

Juvenal

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

C. S. Lewis

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

C. S. Lewis

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

Bryant H. McGill

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

Taryn Thompson

As far as I'm concerned, you don't deserve to breathe. You don't deserve to live. You took the life of a 10-month-old baby -- even worse, your 10-month-old baby.

Roger Warren

As baby boomers flush through the system, they are downsizing into condos and the mills. We will see construction move toward smaller units.

Mary Hayes

Baby teeth are with us longer than people think. People think if a baby tooth gets decay, that's OK, because the tooth is disposable. But the last ones don't leave until kids are about 12.

Jeff Niemann

Baby steps. Once you get through this, it makes you stronger. I want to get something positive out of it and come back stronger.

Jill Vyse

Baby massage provides relaxation, relief and stimulation. The program that I teach for the city comes from four main foundations of massage: Swedish, East Indian, Yoga and a series of gentle movements.

Jill Vyse

Baby massage is about learning to communicate your love for your baby through touch. You do a particular stroke ... and she smiles at you -- and you keep that forever. A great benefit of baby massage is the bonding.

Justin Childers

Baby diarrhea. The necklace doesn't work and those bright, red lips? She doesn't look like her.

Thomas Perls

Baby boomers have an inaccurate and pessimistic view of aging. So much of it is in your hands and how you take care of yourself.

Bob Vetere

Baby boomers are turning to pets because it fills the empty house, as kids have gone off to college. Young professionals who aren't starting families right away are still looking for some kind of companionship.

Barbara Jordan

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

Auguste Comte

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle.

Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

C. S. Lewis

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

Calvin Coolidge

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

James Wolcott

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

James Wolcott

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.