Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Virginia Woolf

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

Robert W. Service

I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.

Robert Reich

I was there in Washington in the `90s. It was pretty bad then. It`s much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious cycle is you`ve got again big corporations, executives, Wall Street, very wealthy individuals in both parties who are calling the shots.

Robert Ley

Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word out!

Sara Shepard

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

Sara Teasdale

But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Robin Urbanski

Right now, the air-to-ground solution is much more economical to us.

Jon Nadler

In the gold trading pits, economic uncertainties are taking a back seat to uncertainties of a different nature these days.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Dominic Barton

The economic leg is much longer than the social leg in China. That's why the big new motto of the government is 'harmonious society'.

Emmanuel Soupre

The fourth quarter was a good quarter. We are optimistic given that the outlook for global economic growth is good.

Susan Klein

The biotech industry is seeking to minimize human life for economic purposes, ... They're trying to redefine when life begins.

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Truman Capote

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

Rachel Caine

But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–” “I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.

Terry Pratchett

Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.

Teju Cole

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.