Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Vivien Leigh

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

William Howard Taft

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Willa Cather

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Virginia Woolf

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Samuel Beckett

There's never an end for the sea.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Louis Sullivan

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

John Henry Newman

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

John Donne

Great sorrows cannot speak.

Freya Stark

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

Rick Riordan

Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

Rick Riordan

Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.

Reynolds Price

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

Woody Allen

Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained.

Sarah Carter

I find day after day of sunshine boring.

Tori Amos

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?

Robert Plant

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

Willa Cather

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.

Robert Palmer

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.