Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Dick Armey

We discovered that Elvis had left the building,

Tom Page

We discovered it on March 29. She was gone when we found it.

Olivia Newton-John

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

David Wade

Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you have discovered since.

Mike McCain

Emily pitched well for us today. It's always tough to throw back-to-back games. It was even harder with it the 95-degree weather. We just have to make the plays in the field.

Ted Ritter

It haunted him for the rest of his life. And he took it to his grave.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Al Gore

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Anton Chekhov

"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

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

Chelsea Clinton

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

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

David Blunkett

I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.

Bill Smith

It's always been in the air, since the day it opened.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?