Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Dickinson

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes

Joe Elliott

It's a great honour to have the dean of Coventry Cathedral conducting the service. It will be a very moving occasion.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Julianne Berry

Sacred Heart Cathedral is a great team, but we finally played 32 minutes of basketball. Finally got 32 minutes to get this monkey off our back.

William Maestri

The St. Louis Cathedral is a symbol that really unites all of our city, and this is what we're going to need to move forward,

George Vecsey

Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens. Not a cathedral - but a place where people go to be fulfilled, nonetheless.

Greg Dixon

It gives them a feeling, that they can actually win a game. We've been waiting the last five weeks for that win to come, to get it rolling. League is going to be pretty tough, but this win will give us some confidence going into Cathedral this week.

Virginia Postrel

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).

Adam Ereli

They've also said that they're going to be conducting a comprehensive investigation not only into this incident but into all facilities where detainees are being held.

Paul McCabe

It's a group of highly trained and well-equipped FBI personnel who specialize in organizing and conducting major evidence recovery operations.

David Hare

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

Yousuf Stanizai

The situation is totally under control... we are conducting a clean-up operation.

Stephane Dujarric

The Secretary-General is pleased that the United Nations has been able to support the IECI in conducting the two national elections and constitutional referendum of the past year under challenging circumstances.

Lincoln Kirstein

I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency.

David Martin

So now what you can do is control the release of the drugs out from the inside of these little tubes, because these conducting polymers can be actuated.

Michael Gray

Employers will be conducting as many searches as they used to, but they'll be tracking fewer applicants. Employers don't want to keep any more resumes than they have to, because it increases their potential liability.

David Lloyd

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.

John Edward

Unless I missed something, Governor Dean still has not said he was wrong. Were you wrong, Howard?

Tom Harkin

As we Iowans say, Howard Dean has his head screwed on right.

Craig Smith

It's a big accomplishment, obviously. Winning 300 is really big, and we did it in a big way in the Dean E. Smith Dome. I'm very happy we got it, and we're pretty much uphill from here.

Jim Davies

It's a way we get to pay homage to 'Blondie' and to Dean for their status,

Caitlin Kittredge

Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.

Robert Duvall

Dean was talented, obviously, ... But he died at a good time.

Kirk Walters

Dean Smith and all the great players that he had, there's just so much history and it'll be fun to play there.

Mike Brey

Dean being nicked up for them is like Quinn being hurt for us. And I don't want to think about it.

Alfred Enoch

Sometimes people are like, 'Hey, you played Dean Thomas!' and I'm like, 'Wow, you actually know!' It kind of shocks me because when I think about movies I love, and if I saw someone who essentially did what I did in Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't recognize them walking down the street.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Norman Foster

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

English 15th Century Proverbs

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.

Rudyard Kipling

And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!

Buddha

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots

Epictetus

I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?

Nicholas Boileau

Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

Horatio Nelson

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

George Herbert

Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.

Alanis Morissette

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Alan Moore

I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.

Alan Greenspan

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

Alan Arkin

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did

Alan Arkin

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Al Sharpton

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

Al Kaline

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Al Hirschfeld

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

Al McGuire

It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.