Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

T. S. Eliot

Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

Neal Shusterman

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Nadine Gordimer

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Joe King

Ruben V is the keeper of the flame of the San Antonio vibe

Alan Watts

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

Antonin Artaud

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

Dante Alighieri

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

Suzy Menkes

I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end it's only the decorative arts. I had a feeling towards the end that Saint Laurent and Berge were very keen to attain that immortality that a lot of designers long for. You know, those endless exhibitions.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Acting is happy agony.

Iain Banks

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

Hortense Calisher

Speech isn't for agony.

Hortense Calisher

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

Terry Gilliam

Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him. He has had to go on Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno. This is just agony for him.

David Gest

You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.

Edward Rutherfurd

I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Anselm of Canterbury

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Peggy Noonan

Let's cause some senators distress.

Tom Ellis

I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals.

Francis Bacon

To know truly is to know by causes.

Michael Gartner

He's involved in a lot of central Iowa causes and issues and is just a terrific guy.

Gigi Hadid

If you don't like it, don't follow me, don't watch me, cause I'm not going anywhere.

Gregory Maguire

...I dabble in causes and effects.

Gore Vidal

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death