Famous Quotes & Sayings

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Sidonie Colette

Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

Louis Pasteur

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

William Shakespeare

And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings.

Oscar Wilde

The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour

George Will

The homosexual subculture based on brief, barren assignations is, in part, a dark mirror of the sex-obsessed majority culture.

Thomas Sowell

Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

William Winter

No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.

Algernon Swinburne

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives

Mary Berry

Key officials anticipated on Election Day that there would be an increase in levels of voter turnout based upon new voter registration figures, but did not ensure that the precincts in all counties received the resources to meet their needs,

Herschel Sandler

I would say this tournament was a little stronger than the Valley of the Moon based on individuals. You can't always look at teams. I think having Healdsburg, Will C. Wood (Vacaville) and Hogan (Vallejo) was great. Vacaville also brought some good kids.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

Bill Cowher

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

Chris Dodd

He convinced me that he will exercise judgment based on the law and the facts of a particular matter,

Richard Suttmeier

Greenspan is at risk of losing his credibility, based upon the fact he was so upbeat two or three weeks ago, ... If they don't bring rates up at this meeting, he will lose credibility -- that would send a horrible message to markets.

Larry Scott

Historically this is a very significant development. We've had some very high-profile matches where momentum has turned based on calls. Now the players know the calls will be right.

Howard Dean

His whole campaign is based on the notion that 'I can keep you safe, therefore, in times of difficulty in America, stick with me,'

Tony Scott

Here's someone who loves touching the dark side.

Jesse McCartney

It is a darker film, not only real but deep and heavy,

Zach Galligan

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

Rose McIver

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

Hugh Graf

It is pretty dark out here. That's one of the things we have to look at -- who had the right of way.

David LaChapelle

Lately, he was always seen in a dark suit and somber, ... I wanted to see what he represented to me because I grew up with his music and stuff and I knew how outrageous and flamboyant he was.

Matisyahu

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

Chris Lucas

He had to go through a very dark winter being blind, and go through that as a 12 year old. But he's had a great spring, a great summer and now in the fall, he's going to have a lot of fun.

Tom Snyder

He had a good attitude, considering he was all by himself and it was very dark and he had been there for quite awhile.

Abner Louima

They said it was a homosexual thing. The cover-up started there.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

E. O. Wilson

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Doug Stanhope

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

Todd Akin

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

Rupert Everett

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

Rafael Cruz

When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.

Mark Neumann

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

Jeanette Winterson

A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Robert Ringer

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Samuel Johnson

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

Walter Lippmann

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Chris Patten

The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,

Jodi Picoult

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Lev Grossman

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Russell Lynes

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Virginia Woolf

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Wes Anderson

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

Vinton Cerf

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

Jorge Luis Borges

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Jonathan Raban

The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.

John Green

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

Carolyn Kizer

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

Moby

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.