Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Osler

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.

Atharva Veda

He takes the crooked path of the unrighteous way; leaving the straight and narrow path, he weaves his way backwards.

Bertolt Brecht

If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be a crooked line.

William Blake

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius

J. R. R. Tolkien

I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.

Brad Radke

The first inning was pretty important. Maybe that got us going a bit. It was nice to see the guys put up some crooked numbers.

Mike Piazza

You can't say it's early forever. No excuses. We haven't been able to put up a crooked number. Runs are hard to come by. We're just stuck in neutral.

Kevin Taft

It's ineffective, it's misguided, it's crooked and it should be stopped.

Terry Francona

It worked out well. We put a nice crooked number up early and we got to stay away from some guys in the ?pen that we wanted to.

E. O. Wilson

Kids will get home and nag their parents to death about getting a smoke detector,

Robert Kramer

Gross abusers of e-mail risk exposure to public ridicule as well as the economic death penalty.

George Sewell

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Thomas Malory

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

Myles Munroe

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Lauren Bacall

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

Neal Katyal

Here, the president seeks not merely to detain temporarily but to dispense life imprisonment and death through a judicial system of his own design.

Charlie Sifford

Golf is such a wonderful game. I love it to death.

Ryan Howard

I think it gets guys fired up. If it doesn't fire you up, you've got issues.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it gave us a little fire in our butts. We were a little flat, and I thought after that, we kind of picked it up a little bit.

Charles Dean

He was a disciplinarian, ... Any time you got out of line, any time you fired back or had an attitude, you ran a lot of laps. I think I ran more laps than anyone.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

Casey Hampton

He likes to pick a fight. But in so doing he gets us fired up, too. He says things a lot of guys are thinking, but just don't say.

Ray Durham

He jumped up quicker than I thought he would and hauled butt back into the fire. He ran right back into the hottest part.

Steve Eckert

He's a slow starter and it's been that way most of the season -- he gets better as the match goes on. I don't know what fired him up, but he got a second wind and it was over.

Bob Wright

He's helping us turn up the fire under the feds.

Todd Dunivant

He's hot. Leave him be, let him do his thing. He's on fire right now. Whatever he touches turns to gold.

Lee Iacocca

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Loretta Lynn

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Hermann Hesse

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

John Lyly

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

William Shakespeare

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

E. F. Benson

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Jon Banner

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

Tom McDaniel

It's a project that we're passed the point of no return,

Bob Newman

It's all been passed down through the family.

Jim Malcolm

They're making rules that I think they're running around you and running around us. They passed that rule Tuesday and we're to scurry and get it done.

Jim Thorpe

The sounds of Bye, Bye Blackbird still stung him to the day he passed away.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

Gary Myers

Everyone stayed in the saddle and passed the first test.

John Witherspoon

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

Susanna Kearsley

There was no DVR, no Netflix, and no binge-watching. We didn't even have a VCR till I was nearly out of high school.

John Jarvis

Wait till you see us out there this year.

Kristen Wiig

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

Jochen Zeitz

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

Anita Shreve

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.

William Rands

Never do to-day what you can Put off till to-morrow.

Tim Williams

From now till the end of May, you'll see wildflowers.

William Cavendish

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.