Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liang Liang

He knows how to handle the subtle inner feelings in a Eastern way while retaining the American way of telling the story.

Prince Nayef

It is a fact ? unfortunately ? that there was (a plan) to target key installations in Eastern Province,

Eileen Kleinfelter

I thought we gave Eastern some trouble. I thought we gave them a good game.

Ed Mathey

It is important to get over .500 now and keep our momentum going forward. We've got a big weekend with Eastern Michigan and we need to go in thinking we need to gain ground on the second place team in our division.

Warren Buffett

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

William Cowper

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.

Pico Iyer

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

Mary Ellen Mark

In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.

Jared Diamond

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean ù once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own (world) we won't be able to get help.

Mandy Hotchkiss

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Zora Neale Hurston

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

Rebecca Solnit

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

Rick Riordan

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Jami Gertz

The kids don't feel as isolated because they have a shared experience. They are all in the same boat. Every summer, we take the sickest kids first.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

Richard Kelly

It seems to not be an isolated incident.

E. Hurley

People said, 'Maybe this is an isolated event,'

Peter Sorensen

After 16 years, we're there. We've isolated it, and we can synthesize it.

Abraham Maslow

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

Pierce Brown

If you look at 'Golden Son,' it was just a focused, isolated battle for Mars.

Debbie Anthony

But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.

Donald Rumsfeld

I would characterize it as an isolated problem.

Walter Mosley

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Jacob Bronowski

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry

John Green

You live for pretentious metaphors.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Robert Anton Wilson

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

Tim Vine

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

Richard Paul Evans

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Richard Paul Evans

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Richard Wilbur

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Russell Brand

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.

Roz Savage

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Roz Savage

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Rose George

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

William J. Clinton

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

William James

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Amanda Vanstone

The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success,

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

Keith Aubry

No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Jason Phillips

He catches everything in the outfield, and he throws people out. He's good. Real good.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Tricia Helfer

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Jonathan Schwartz

I want to see most of the planet online.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Travis Hafner

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.

Willa Cather

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Walter Benjamin

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Rich Gordon

I'm not going to ruin it for them. I understand that it is important.

Joseph Addison

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

Emile M. Cioran

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Emile M. Cioran

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

John F. Kennedy

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.