Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zach Braff

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

David Limbaugh

With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.

Jonathan Swift

When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest

Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Christopher Shays

I will tell you, I fly less because my knowledge of the system is better than the general public. And I think we endanger the general public by not checking the cargo in the belly of an aircraft.

Larry Sabato

To have a chance, Lucas must both demonstrate he still has the fire in the belly to serve in Congress and succeed in making this race as much of a personal popularity contest as it can be. Still, you can bet Davis will seek to tie his opponent to his party label at every turn, and we give the freshman Republican an early leg up.

Donnie Miller

Basically, his intestines have developed outside of his body, right next to his belly button and what they do is try to put a sack over the intestines and then slowly put them back into his body. They can't do that all at once because it would be too much weight for him.

Shayna Richardson

I have a constant reminder moving around in my belly telling me what a miracle my life is and what a miracle his life is.

Simon Goodwin

It certainly gets the fire in your belly when your direct opponent wins the game for the opposition, ... You take that. You take that into training and you take that into tonight's game.

Mike Russell

We're booming right now. The warm temperature is bringing them on, so there's lots of strawberries out there.

Yi Xianrong

China's booming foreign reserves can help boost economic stability with ample capital for foreign debt payment.

Jack Kingston

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

David Healy

We're off to a booming start and everybody's going to be raising their sales forecasts for the year.

Alan Nicholl

He definitely has the hot hand right now. He's booming with confidence. He's so determined to not lose; he's willing himself to make these saves.

Paul Woods

There is booming technology in India, but it has been suggested there is little thought for security, which creates a market to exploit that.

Martin Yokosawa

Today's data confirmed that big industry is still booming and, of course, that lends support to the big names in that sector.

Ken Wattret

The data tells us that recovery is on its way, but it's not booming growth.

Rebecca Kirszner

Republicans can point to the past, but they can't justify the present. It is a simple fact -- lobbying is booming under Bush. Since George Bush came to town, the number of lobbyists has doubled in Washington.

Ian Watson

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

Marcus Buckingham

My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.

Carol Browner

We're very, very concerned right now here at the EPA when you are getting this level of heat in the summer months -- we're driving our cars, we're running our power plants -- more pollution builds up.

Jayne Anne Phillips

I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.

Source Unknown

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

David Wilmot

White laborers known for their enterprise, their diligence, their economy, which builds up new empires in the West.

Dustin Lanz

I think just knowing we've been in those situations before helped. You could tell they weren't stressing, and they put in the extra effort. This is something that builds a lot more confidence.

Orison Swett Marden

It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Irwin M. Jacobs

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Imelda May

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Valerie June

When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Sathya Baba

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Brittany Snow

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

Daniel Radcliffe

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Richard Daley

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

Nicole Holofcener

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

Carrie Fisher

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

Carrie Underwood

I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!

Bertrand Russell

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

Ken Erickson

We were getting a little stretched. They could smell it, but they couldn't find it,

Becca Fitzpatrick

You smell good." "It's called a shower. Soap, shampoo, water-" "Naked. I know the drill.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You smell good, too,” said Patch It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.” Naked. I know the drill.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You should shower," I said. "Right now." "I smell that bad?" (Patch) Actually, he smelled that good.

William Shakespeare

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

William Shakespeare

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

Paul O'Grady

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

Anita Loos

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

Elizabeth Gaskell

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

Virginia Woolf

To love makes one solitary.

Wendy Carlos

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Robert Burton

Be not solitary, be not idle

Charlotte Bronte

Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

William Shakespeare

Foul whisperings are abroad

Gordon B. Hinckley

Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.

Ray Bradbury

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Malcolm Turnbull

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

John Betjeman

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

John Keats

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Cheryl Strayed

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

Edward Abbey

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

John Muir

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

John Bright

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.