Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lana Stanley

Our temporary space on First Street is actually a beautiful location, and we are happy to be here. We look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones as well.

Ruth Warrick

Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful, wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition.

Kelly Packard

The shot was intended to go to her. Becky made a beautiful but difficult pass. Ruth caught it, had somebody hanging on her but hit the shot.

Kathy Miles

That this event took place this year and brought such a crowd is so good for the beautiful people of New Orleans.

Aravind Adiga

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

Ben Okri

What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.

Barbara Kingsolver

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

Bai Ling

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

Bai Ling

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

Brian Blessed

I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

Dean Koontz

Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.

Albert Einstein

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Doug Liman

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

Alice Sebold

The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.

Anais Nin

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

Ann Aguirre

He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.

William Shakespeare

My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

William Shakespeare

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

Susan B. Anthony

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Douglas William Jerrold

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Richard Bach

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Sophia Loren

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

Tammin Sursok

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

John Steinbeck

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

George Eliot

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

Rex Stout

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

Ludwig van Beethoven

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.