Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanne Woodward

I also had a wonderful great-aunt who was an avid gardener, who told me all about the flowers, their names and where they came from.

M. J. Rose

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

Richard J. Roberts

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.

Scott Ellis

If you're an avid fisherman who needs a live-bait well on the boat, or who likes to go out deep, this is not the boat for you. Maybe that kind of boat is on the horizon, but not right now. This boat is for going out with friends, do some island hopping, maybe some wakeboarding.

Michael Ovitz

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

Rodman Philbrick

I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of game fish.

Mekhi Phifer

I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.

Marcus Samuelsson

I'm an avid runner and play soccer every weekend, but I also have to constantly watch what I eat, and I'm always thinking about how to balance my meals.

Darren Boyd

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you can't even begin to touch that. A novel is a singular vision, and then a myriad of readers have their own experience of that.

Charles Dickens

The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

Charles Dickens

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

Charles Dickens

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Charles Dickens

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Charles Stewart Parnell

No man has the right to say to his country

Charles Stewart Parnell

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Charles Sturt

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

Alan Paton

There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.

Alan Moore

In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Wow! I'm really touched. This means a lot to me.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Dan Zimmerman

This is the prime time right now. They're there.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

George Arzt

Everyone thought she was ready for prime time, but her floundering in the Senate race showed she was not.

Doris Williams

Women can do a lot of things when they have to, and she was a prime example.

Jon Secada

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

Harry Wilson

Taxes don't seem to be the third rail they used to be.

Paul Samuelson

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Julie Bowen

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

Jason Anderson

When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.

Bill Janklow

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

John Thomas

The only one that will work is a rail system, but the routes need change.

Anthony Quinn

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Robert A. Heinlein

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

Khaled Hosseini

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

Daniel Boulud

I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

Mohsin Hamid

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

Terry Pratchett

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

Karl Lagerfeld

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

Andrew Zimbalist

You are substituting one set of tourists for another.

Mike Simpson

Visits from tourists are not going to do it,

Adam Braun

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

Vladimir Putin

This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection.

Colleen Barrett

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Michael Leunig

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

Danny Nikolic

He was always travelling like the winner. I like the horse, he will only get better.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Sam Curry

This is Old World crime, but it's using new tools.

Edward Looney

We're using the word 'gambling' more often now.

Stephen Chbosky

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Shaun White

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Jeremy Jordan

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

Zig Ziglar

Wherever you are there you are!