Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Davies

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

Jane Austen

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

Elif Safak

After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

Dominic Cooper

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Abraham Verghese

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

Dodie Smith

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Confucius

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

Anthony Kennedy

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

Alison Bechdel

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

Brett Eldredge

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

Brett Ratner

You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.

Brett Ratner

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

Brandon Routh

As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Brandon Sanderson

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Bai Ling

I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.

Ashton Kutcher

I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't give you a lot of feedback so you have to do that. That's a difficult thing to do as an actor.

Tarshanda Ferguson

A win is a win, but it was an ugly one. I'm very disappointed on the way that we played. We did not play hard, and we were not focused.

Stanislaw Lem

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

Erma Bombeck

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

George Sand

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

Imelda Marcos

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Iyanla Vanzant

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

J. K. Rowling

I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?

H. L. Mencken

There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.

Robert Trout

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.