Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Rudd

It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse and challenging roles will be remembered as some of the great performances by an Australian actor.

John Elway

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one

Gabriela Mistral

I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

Beatrix Potter

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Robert Browning

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

Farrah Fawcett

There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.

Janet Fitch

The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Rebecca West

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Marcel Proust

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

Katie Aselton

I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.

Oscar Wilde

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Lewis Carroll

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

Juvenal

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

John Bunyan

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Louisa May Alcott

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

Garry Shandling

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Sarah Silverman

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

Richard Rogers

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

Richard Pryor

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there`s something wrong.

Richard Pryor

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

Tupac Shakur

It aint about black or white cause we`re human