Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bipasha Basu

I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.

William Strunk

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

William White

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace.

Larry Beinfest

During the interview process, the adjectives about Joe were consistent: prepared, smart, competitive, communicative. All the things we were looking for in a manager.

Tim Salmon

You run out of adjectives to describe him because he does things you've never seen before.

Thomas Sadoski

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Dick Schaap

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Angela Davis

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Eartha Kitt

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

David Hume

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Burnett

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

Daniel Handler

Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Jeff Bridges

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

William Graham Sumner

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Luke Nosek

If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.

Catherine Dean

This is where one of the most important Americans lived during one of the most important periods in American history. Unfortunately, people don't even know we are here.

Harry Smith

This is the worst storm I've seen in the 46 years I've lived here.

William Frey

There is this 'Go East' mentality in California. Even people who have lived there most of their lives, when it comes time to retire are cashing out and leaving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.

Peter Cardillo

Any rally is going to be short lived because someone can say the wrong thing (about earnings).

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

Darrell Royal

I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.

Mark Wall

I've lived in Colorado, Utah, this is better.

Madeleine Stowe

As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.

Jane Levy

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Mark Richt

about as pretty as I've seen. Maybe we should do that more often.

Juan Felipe Herrera

The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.

Sheryl Skolnick

It seems to be of some concern. Maybe you don't need the headache.

David Lipe

They played well. Maybe this will give those two some confidence.

Sean McCarthy

They should be very proud of what they've done. Maybe not satisfied, but proud.

Nancy Mitchell

This happened, so maybe something else can happen.

Ron Rivera

They thought they were better than we were and in some instances, some positions, maybe they were better.

John Banks

Throughout our lives, we were in the system. Our parents weren't stable enough.

James Jordan

It's been real positive for us to have the parents being mandated to come with their sons and daughters,

Wendy McGonigal

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

Deb Trine

A lot of people who aren't parishioners or parents come out every year. It's a fun?filled day.

Wanda Bethea

They're superb. That's really a tribute to the parents and teachers.

Nisha Singhania

As a girl, you never spoke to your parents. They spoke to you.

Doug Horn

I've always been told by parents how well our team handles these competitions.

Matt Ward

Sometimes you come out there and it's just your parents in the stands.

David Stewart

Some will still be around because they have parents with robust businesses.

Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

William Shakespeare

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

William Shakespeare

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

Madeleine Albright

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

C. S. Lewis

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

C. S. Lewis

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

C. S. Lewis

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Cheri Huber

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.