Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Samuel Johnson

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Philip Coyle

If Portsmouth were to be closed, the U.S. would be left with only 8 percent excess capacity,

Suzi Quatro

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

Henry Adams

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

William Blake

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

Juan Enriquez

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

Oscar Goodman

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

David Holmes

I think the market is very healthy. With investors still waiting on the sidelines to get in, I just don't see the market falling away.

Robert H. Connelly

The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.

Roger Kahn

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Sarah Addison Allen

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

Sarah Wayne Callies

I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life.

Salman Rushdie

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

Salman Rushdie

we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.

William Christopher Handy

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

Tony Orlando

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Zach Thomas

He's doing what we need. A big percentage of the team needs that mental toughness, and that's what we have always needed here. That will hopefully pan out and make us a tougher, nasty team. We want it where teams don't want to play us.

Rob Hummel

Hopefully we can keep getting these kind of crowds. I'm not sure what it was like in 1994, but I hope they'll keep coming.

Gary Green

Hopefully we can get him on track as we go on. We're not worried about doing everything at once. Let's just do one thing at a time.

Iain Stewart

I am hopeful that they will make it.

Will Durant

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

E. O. Wilson

Our losing streak ended, so hopefully the Leafs' will end theirs (tonight).

B. F. Skinner

I just filed unemployment today. Hopefully the store will reopen, otherwise I'm going to have to find a new job.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

Kevin McCormick

As long as we have '05 inventory on the ground, we're going to keep it going," ()

Mark LaNeve

Dealers tell us they can't keep them on the lot, with vehicles staying in inventory less than a week on average.

Larry Wachtel

Tech is suffering from one big inventory overhang. It's going to take a long time to work through that.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

William Wordsworth

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

Robert Delaunay

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Rob Bell

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Tom Engibous

DSP revenue was up 10 percent sequentially and orders were up 11 percent sequentially.

Robert Gottlieb

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

Robert Reich

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

William Strunk, Jr.

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

William Strunk, Jr.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

Naomi Shihab Nye

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know

Shimon Peres

I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

Josh Lucas

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

Julie Garwood

You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine" - Lady Madelyne.

Juan Marichal

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing that makes the arm stronger.