Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Hamilton

Coach McBride's wife . . . you don't see too many women, from another race, to be hugging a big, old black guy like me,

Gene Cathcart

Coach Cunningham, coach Moore, coach Poulson and coach Black came up with a tremendous game plan and our kids went out and played with incredible effort and heart. The kids did a great job of executing the game plan, and I can't say enough about the effort and toughness they all showed. This is the kind of defense that championship teams are built on.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Cold be hand and heart and bone,and cold be sleep under stone:never more to wake on stony bed,never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.In the black wind the stars shall die,and still on gold here let them lie,till the dark lord lifts his handover dead sea and withered land.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Marshall Cohen

Are the midnight openings much earlier than usual for Black Friday? Yes, they are. Does this show that retailers are more nervous this year? Absolutely.

Abby Ferber

A real problem with Black History Month is that we focus on individuals, yet we ignore the larger social structure of racism. Students might study great people who made great accomplishments, but it isn't seen as an issue that's relevant today.

Gary Lineker

An excellent player - but he does have a black side

Alphonso Jackson

The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community that blacks aren't capable of self-advancement.

James Callaghan

The sky turned black with the flapping wings of chickens coming home to roost.

Russian Proverb

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far place.

Katie Nordhaus

People tend to forget around the New Year. I think it's just because it's winter-time, and it's cold out, and people are sedentary. Who wants to be outside in the cold walking a dog?

Burt Reynolds

Now, in the middle of the night, you hear me wake up in this cold sweat going, 'Bond, James Bond',

Scott Smith

So much of natural gas prices is weather related. If it's colder people tend to use more energy. And because it's a nationwide market, if it's cooler in New England it's going to drive up the price for us as well.

William Poole

There will be some pressures on households, and that will be particularly true if we have a cold winter and natural-gas prices go up even further.

Jim Lampley

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious ... knocked out cold before ... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

Lee Berger

It was the ultimate 2 million-year-old cold case.

Connie Allen

It was the same thing (as in a 66-55 loss to Utica on Jan. 13). They started out on fire, and I don't know if we shut them down or if they got cold in the second half. The same thing happened this time, but we just didn't get the offensive scores we needed and we had some girls in foul trouble.

David Wright

It was very dry and very hot (this summer). Last year, it was rainy and cold, and who wants to swim in the cold weather?

Michael Gallagher

Public opinion has turned around. It was dark in the '80s but is now very bright. We have proved that we can operate the plants safely and efficiently.

William Hearst

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Ang Lee

That's why we make movies. Otherwise, we just have a leader issue an order and we all follow. Why else would there be filmmakers like us? Why else would people lock themselves in a dark room and watch a movie together?

John Milton

A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little further on.

Monty Python

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

Arthur Miller

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Brian Andreas

When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift....

Brad Paisley

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Ruth Ross

A ''should'' is a ''have to'' with no teeth; it is dead energy.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

Paul Whitmore

Rather than responding from dead sleep, we'll already have people there. We're definitely better off this way.

Hugh Orde

Officers were shot at last night. We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning.

Robert Reid

Dead trees are hazardous, and they will fall in the period of a storm.

Eric Fry

Dead money that springs to life will die again.

Jessica Raine

After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.

Les Johnson

Now if you launch with conventional propulsion, most of the scientists would be retired or dead

Victoria Wood

Thanx for all you did and said, i'm so grateful dad's not dead

Jim Tocco

I've seen him in tons of parks and he does the same thing every time, but never fails to make me laugh. He's a versatile funny man.

Source Unknown

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Ben Okri

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Alice Cooper

You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Andre Gide

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

Anais Nin

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Anne Carson

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

William Shakespeare

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Steve Oestreicher

Now it's in the hands of the Legislature. We're going to see what they're going to do with it.

Jim Edmonds

Sometimes you have to throw your hands up.

Gerald Lucas

Pressure from bunds is working its way into the Treasury market. Bunds and Treasuries are moving hand in hand.

John Taylor

President Nixon never lifted his hand to Mrs. Nixon,

John Adshead

I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one.

Denise Neel

It was very exciting. It was tense. We knew we did well. But we knew it was in the judges hands so all we could do was sit and wait.

Brock Farrel

I should have had two hands on the ball, and I didn't.

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Brad Hawpe

I shook his hand and thanked him for keeping us from suffering the ultimate.

Ian Blair

These allegations strike to the heart of the integrity of the police and integrity of the Met and I fundamentally reject them. There is no cover-up.

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Antonin Scalia

is locked in the heart of the president.

Bible Bible

The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

Dennis Alejo

The wise in heart are called discerning, and pleasant words promote instruction.

Louisa May Alcott

...the words 'we are sisters' went straight to her heart and nestled there.

Robert Duvall

This is something very near to my heart.

Marcus Williams

This is our time to restore the season. This is going to show a lot of this team's heart. We are starting from scratch with a 0-0 record.

Sharon Smith

The University of Kentucky was in his heart.

Rosemary Mahoney

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

Mike Mansfield

As long as the Lord will let me.

Granth Sahib

Some sing songs and melodies and hymns, but their minds do not sing of the Lord

Larry Fuller

Some people require more patience, ... Eventually, the Lord will win out.

O. Singh

I serve the Lord s Name, I worship the Lord s Name, and my soul is imbued with the Lord s Name.

Steve Pearce

The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband.

Barbara Stanwyck

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

Dan T. Cathy

The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.

Dolly Parton

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Annette Funicello

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

Samuel Coleridge

The moving moon went up the sky, / And nowhere did abide: / Softly she was going up, / And a star or two beside.

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!

Al Gore

...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science...Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the Earth is flat instead of round.

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.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

David J. C. MacKay

If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back

Preston Clark

Everything was setting up like that tournament. The water temperature, the moon phase, the time of the year, everything was the same.

Albert Einstein

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

Bob Bradley

A sea of humanity. What a wonderful sight to see at the start.

Ray Ozzie

a seamless weaving of hardware, software and devices.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Jonathan Lewis

The season is not lost. We're still Virginia Tech.

Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Carl Sandburg

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

Catherine Mary Stewart

I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did Sea Wolf together along with Christopher Reeve. Ive been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance.

Donald Hall

now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

William Blake

Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.

Dolly Parton

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Argus Hamilton

Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

Arthur Koestler

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Cardinal Richelieu

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Cameron Diaz

Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not.

Carter Burwell

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.

Anton Chekhov

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

Arianna Huffington

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

Baha'u'llah

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

Barbara Stanwyck

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Barbara Mikulski

Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.

Augustus

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

Augusten Burroughs

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

Augusten Burroughs

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

Brian Andreas

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

Carol Alt

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

Alan Keyes

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

Brad Pitt

I'm gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I'm gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It'll be an acoustic version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Then maybe I'll design a line of clothes like Puff Daddy, but all in synthetic fur.

Miley Cyrus

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

Catherine Opie

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.

Catherine McCormack

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

Miley Cyrus

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I’ve already gone are going to stay with me.

Desmond Harrington

The suns going down and we cant afford to come back to it tomorrow.

Craig Finn

The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.

Clark Gable

When you smile it's like the sun coming up.

Ricky Gervais

Whatever else is happening, things are better in the sun.

Jochen Zeitz

Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.

John Witherspoon

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Thomas Nagel

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Simon Sinek

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

Sam Kinison

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

Usain Bolt

It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.

Shirley Jones

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Ridley Pearson

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

Michelle Rodriguez

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

Patricia Cornwell

You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Bruce Chatwin

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

David J. C. MacKay

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

Robert Kiyosaki

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong