Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Vaughan

It certainly gave you a feeling that the Ashes mean so much to so many people and the nation, to see people hanging out of the windows at work, to see kids waving in the streets certainly tells me that the game of cricket has hit home.

Allama Iqbal

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment, His burning candle consumed me - the moth; His wine overwhelmed my goblet, The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold And set my ashes aflame

Phil Jaques

I am behind Australia's best opening partnership of all time, so I have to bide my time for opportunities to come up. It would be a dream come true to play a revenge Ashes series this summer.

Granth Sahib

If I was slashed and cut into pieces, over and over again, and put into the mill and ground into flour, burnt by fire and mixed with ashes - even then, I could not estimate Your Value. How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name?

Katy Manning

I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!

Nevil Shute

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

John Green

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

Joan of Arc

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

Richard Wilbur

The little dog lay curled and did not rise But slept the deeper as the ashes rose, And found the people incomplete

Mark Donahue

I think the honor should be bestowed on those who are deserving of the honor. I don't think that it the case in this situation.

Chester Nez

It is, I think, one of the greatest honors that you can bestow on the code talkers. I'm really happy about it.

Johan Huizinga

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

quran quran

He was naught but a servant on whom We bestowed favor, and We made him an example for the children of Israel.

Francis Bradley

I am glad to think my work has been of use to anyone. But that it deserves the time & trouble involved in an elaborate study I find difficult to believe. In other words the same pains bestowed on one of the well-known masters in the subject would in my opinion be better rewarded.

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice to the True Guru, who has bestowed the True Name. Night and day, I praise the True One; I sing the Glorious Praises of the True One. True is the food, and true are the clothes, of those who chant the True Name of the True One.

Bible Bible

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Guru Singh

The Guru, the Lord Incarnate, has bestowed upon servant Nanak the Name of the Lord, in this world, and in the next, the Lord ever saves me.

Granth Sahib

The True Lord has bestowed it, as it was pre-ordained.

Michel Faber

The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.

Matt Hammitt

Just to find the time to think about everything, just trying to wrap our heads around everything that was going on, and to try to go out and headline a show every night was really hard.

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Steve Irwin

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

Michael Nylander

Here, he has been standing on his head. Why wouldn't he stand on his head there?

Peter Fonda

Her heart was in the right place, but her head wasn't.

Steve Hutchinson

I think we're all kind of hoping for it. But we all kind of had it in our head this is going to be a long week.

Don Thompson

I think we are heading toward a military dictatorship.

David Carr

It is nerve-wracking in there, ... Lots of tension, because it's so quiet. And everybody's got their head in the book, listening for a number.

Charles Payne

I think were heading into next week with a head of steam we haven't seen for some time.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Lorrie Miller

It is just as open to me as it is to them.

E. Hicks

I welcome them all with open arms. At least we can get through practice.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Cynthia Johnson

In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going there.

Ted Fitzgerald

In practice, they seem to be more open to abuse.

Pete Carroll

I never thought we'd get that much open space. It was way better than I could have imagined.

Mark Palmer

We think it's important that they have face-to-face contact. In the old building, they were scattered all over the place.

Warren County

Makes you wonder where they all scattered to.

Harry Stockman

Basically, it's the same stuff and will stick with us through Sunday. We'll have scattered showers off and on and most of it could be snow.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Matt Kiefer

He had a long rehab. Ever since he could play (again), he has been a leader. A vocal leader.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Michael Lombardi

This is not about justice, this is not about the law. This is about politics. There is a lot at stake here for us.

William Hedgcock Webster

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

Sander Levin

Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.

Ken Miller

Why is this a big deal? What is at stake is, literally, everything.

Richard P. Feynman

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Woodrow Wilson

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

Will Ferrell

I'm a really good swimmer.

Sarah Addison Allen

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

Sarah Dessen

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

Sarah Dessen

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

Zac Efron

It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

Vladimir Putin

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Winston Churchill

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

Stephanie Ferlita

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.

James Garner

I'll still watch even though Earnhardt isn't in it.