Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Dan Thompson

I am awake, I might as well be drinking

Bob Dole

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Billy Connolly

I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

Edward Abbey

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Kevin Collier

We're taking a system down that can do the whole project - all the way to drinking water if they need us to do that.

Daniel Silva

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol

Wayne Best

The strong spending volume Visa is experiencing, and the trends we've seen leading up to Thanksgiving, bode well for merchants this holiday season.

Steve Kernkraut

Thanksgiving weekend was strong and that lifted a lot of the retailers' results. I think they have momentum going into the holiday season.

Howard Morley

Sales are starting to get back up there after the holiday period and prices show no real sign of weakness.

E. B. White

This isn't going to be judged on whether we sell a lot of tops over the Web for the holiday season,

Diane Cilento

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

Deepak Chopra

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

Dominic Monaghan

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

Patrick Byrne

We've had a nice holiday season, just not as nice a season as we've had in the past or as I'd hoped for.

Sharon Smith

Everything we have will still be rustic. It?s not going to be the Holiday Inn, but it won?t be as primitive.

Guy Clark

I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

Aimee Mullins

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

Damon Lindelof

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

Davy Jones

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

Simon Pegg

Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

Swami Vivekananda

Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

Maureen Corrigan

Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent.

Maureen Dowd

We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

Maureen Johnson

I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.