Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Garnett

really did dramatically reshape the conversation about federal power.

Rick Horrow

No sports entrepreneur would ever let me talk about investing in an NHL franchise for at least the last five years. Now it's taking place in conversation again, really for the first time in nearly a decade.

Aaron Brooks

Actually Malik (Hairston) called the meeting. It started as a conversation, then it got kind of heated, so they called everybody over. We just questioned everybody's heart.

Ellen Goodman

some people hate the president so much that it's impossible to have a conversation with them.

Capt. Richter

Thanks to good parenting, none of them have engaged him in conversation.

Leonard Hamilton

Sometimes you don't really know what to say because conversation sometimes makes it worse. You just have to give a person a hug and tell him you love him, you support him and be there for them.

John Husing

Sooner or later we need to have an intelligent conversation about infrastructure. Imagine the economy today if, 50 years ago, we didn't invest in the interstate freeway system.

John Barton

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

David Johnston

said they had no indication that Mr. Fitzgerald was considering charging Mr. Cheney with wrongdoing. Mr. Cheney was interviewed under oath by Mr. Fitzgerald last year. It is not known what the vice president told Mr. Fitzgerald about the conversation with Mr. Libby or when Mr. Fitzgerald first learned of it.

Bono

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Tim Giel

We've had as many as six freshmen starting for us this year. Five are entered in the section tournament.

Jim Morrison

TV on handsets is rubbish. People won't pay to get TV on their mobile phones. Imagine watching it on a train. You'd lose signal as soon as you entered a tunnel.

Thierry Breton

You have to understand that we have entered a period of expensive oil that will last a long time.

Jakob Bohme

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

Stephen Greenblatt

the heads on the pikes may have spoken to him on the day he entered London - and he may well have heeded their warning.

Bible Bible

And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

Yelena Baturina

In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

Sherry Cooper

Today's report indicates that the sector is still robust and entered the second quarter with lots of momentum.

Juvenal

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

E. Hicks

We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.