Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rex Stout

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

William Morris

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

William J. Clinton

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

Richard Burton

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Robert Ringer

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

Robert Ludlum

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

Sarah Shahi

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

Robert Hunter

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

Robert Penn Warren

How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

Marc LaVorgna

If you have a piece of sheet metal in there, it's not going to work.

Dave Scott

The challenging part is that it had a metal roof. It was pretty steep, and it tends to get a little slippery.

Jon Gries

I am a closet metal fan.

Def Leppard

It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and it's the bombast and the production thing that allude to being metal more than it really is.

Scott Ian

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

Lemmy Kilmister

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Lars Ulrich

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

Hideo Kojima

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

Andrew Silver

It's a sign that spare metal is around.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

Rob Sheffield

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

William Gilmore Simms

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

Deepak Chopra

I stick them in my wallet. They're more precious than the money.

Mark Twain

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Judith Martin

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard P. Feynman

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Richard John Neuhaus

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Richard Dawkins

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

Richard Dawkins

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Reza Aslan

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

William Robertson Smith

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

William J. Clinton

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

Libby Smith

I'll try to think of it as just another tournament; just think of it as the first round of about 120.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

O. Singh

I have to go out there and not worry about the leader. I have to play another solid round tomorrow and wait until Sunday.

Mohammad Saeedi

There was a round of inspections two weeks ago and there will be another from this Saturday to Wednesday,

P. J. Harvey

That first round is always the toughest to get through. Anything can happen.

Greg Pieczynski

It just wasn't very good, obviously. But you need to take into consideration what we were up against. The first round I really didn't do anything all that well, especially putting.

Justin Bartha

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Graeme McDowell

I've been waiting for this round for a while.

Bill Clinton

I am here because the Stones aren't term-limited and they're just as old as I am.

Richard Paul Evans

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

Ron Carlson

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

Robert M. Pirsig

You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...

Sandra Bullock

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Tyra Banks

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

Walter Winchell

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Jose Mourinho

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!