Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muriel Rukeyser

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

Marianne Moore

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Amiri Baraka

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Amiri Baraka

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Amiri Baraka

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

David Lehman

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

John Whittier

Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.

Samuel Ullman

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Gregory Corso

They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Charles Caleb Colton

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Charles Dickens

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

Charles Dickens

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.

Charles Dickens

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

Charles Dickens

... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.

Charles Dickens

I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close...

Charles Dickens

Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.

Charles Dickens

But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.

Charles Dickens

He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.

David Hockney

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

Adam Rita

We're interested, but he wants more than we want to pay, that's the bottom line. That's the beauty of the salary management system. You just stop when you run out of money.

William Shakespeare

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

Martina McBride

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

Marguerite Gardiner

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Marisa Miller

My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!

Nigel Barker

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Bertrand Russell

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

Mark Mears

We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.

Jack Schultz

At first, I thought money invested into revitalizing main streets rather than industrial development was like throwing money down a rat hole. But now many people are moving out of the big cities to escape the rat race. They want to move to small, charming towns that offer a sense of place.

John Schmedes

It's a small but charming theater. We were always a touring theater before. And we still are, but this gives us a home base. And after 20 years, there's no place like having a home.

LaVerne Knox

Third time's the charm, and it's about time.

George Drawhorn

They say that three is the charm, and it was a nice time for us to get some payback. But that was a good team that we just beat.

Katherine Brown

It really just has wonderful attractions and good Southern charm. It's an ideal location and very ripe for a tourist market.

Walter Veltroni

It will be a great event ... held in the most charming scenery in the world,

Kenneth Koch

As charming as old people are, one doesn't want to have a 75-year-old baby. One wants to make something new.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Charles Stanley

Relationship is the difference between grace and law.

Alan Watts

Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

Chris Bohjalian

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

Edward Gibbon

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

David Viscott

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

David Remnick

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

David Ricardo

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always in mind the immediate and temporary effects of particular changes, whereas I put these effects quite aside, and fix my whole attention on the long-term effects that will result from them.

Gail Sheehy

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.