Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Godfrey Leland

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

Greg Drescher

You often hear about ingredients being found, whether it is corn or ancient grains, but it is not too often that you hear about something as complex as noodles.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Bible Bible

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

James Marsters

Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.

Al Goldman

Earnings are ancient history. The first quarter is under our belt. The market is now looking to the fourth quarter and ahead.

Raymond Moody

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

Rick Riordan

Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

Barry Unsworth

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

Elaine Sciolino

The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.

M. Wolfe

Anne Klein you can find, if you look hard enough.

Wil Wheaton

When I told Anne that I just hate it that I can't help her, especially since I keep asking her to do stuff for me, she said, "It's okay. This is the 'sickness' part of 'sickness and health.'

Caroline Thompson

I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.

Lady Gregory

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

Lisa O'Hare

My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

Steve Earle

The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.

Deborah Harkness

I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved.

Maryann Keller

When Mark Fields and Anne Stevens took over it was clear the baton had been passed to another generation.

Joseph Addison

These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

Albert Haldemann

There's going to be quite a period of mourning once we lose one, just one. We know these creatures, these robotic creatures on Mars, pretty well now. It is going to take some digesting to get used to them not being there everyday.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

Karen Grant

Men tend to be creatures of habit. Once they have integrated a brand, they stick with it, unlike women who will try all kinds of products from a number of different lines.

Bhagavad Gita

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Lao Tzu

Heaven and earth are ruthless and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs.

Ann Rice

God kills indescriminantly, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

Stanley Hauerwas

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

Bea Arthur

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

Deborah Moggach

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Sherilyn Fenn

When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.

Robert Brown

Gigadibs the literary man, / Who played with spoons, explored his plate's design, / And ranged the olive stones about its edge.

Jack Kenny

I feel that I accomplished what I set out to do: A solid family drama, with lots of humor, that honestly explored the lives of the Webster family. Good, flawed people who loved each other no matter what.

Julie Kavner

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

Janet Reno

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

Marnie Stern

Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.

Lonnie Soloff

We do that to explore his ranges of motion.

Linda Hamilton

I think it would be irresponsible of the town not to explore it.

Stephenie Meyer

I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

Stephenie Meyer

I want to be a monster too

N. T. Wright

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Marquis de Sade

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

Jonathan Maberry

Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

Harlan Ellison

be careful of monsters with teeth

Colson Whitehead

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

Rose Fong

We are the new Rice Bowl, second generation.

Odette Annable

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

Jon Gruden

It's done with. We need Simeon Rice back.

Octavia E. Butler

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?