Famous Quotes & Sayings

The tired and thirsty prospector threw himself down at the edge of the watering hole and started to drink. But then he looked around and saw skulls and bones everywhere. "Uh-oh," he thought. "This watering hole is reserved for skeletons.

Dean Karnazes

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.

Dwight Davis

This is just one step closer to reality. Now they've taken it a step further by specifying the services they are going to offer. It's nice that it sort of puts meat on the bones for .NET, but it's still at the vaporware stage. The bulk of the suite is still far from beta (test version).

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

M. K. Hobson

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

Melanie Rawn

The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.

Gene Nelson

The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there.

Margaret Johnson

The Gainesville Chamber of Commerce organized a drive to collect books to be donated to the Gainesville Victory ship. Two hundred books were collected.

John Banville

This is a great surprise and a great pleasure. Any one of these books could have won. To my colleagues I say just hang around and it will come. I have hung around for many years.

Tom Lehrer

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan,And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

Taylor Lautner

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

Jerry Kelly

I had probably six putts like that I missed. I shot 7 under but I had five putts within six to eight feet and didn't go in. It was one of those rounds where I could have gotten a lot more out of it. But it was still a good round.

Gilbert Arenas

I had one of those in Orlando when I missed eight straight. It's harder at home.

Sidney Ponson

I feel much better when I throw eight innings on 80 pitches than eight innings on 120. I think I'm a more mature pitcher.

Ellen Pompeo

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.

Annika Sorenstam

I did make an incredibly hot start to the year and to have won eight times worldwide means I've had a great season,

Jong Uichico

If only we had been lucky and won two out of those eight losses, we could have been in the top four. Now, we're just making the most out of what we have. It's a long shot, but my players still have pride in themselves.

Jennifer O'Neill

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

Jackson Browne

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Andy Borowitz

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

Alberto Manguel

Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.

Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Doug E. Fresh

I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration. Life is short. I guess I'm lined up for a reason.

Dylan Moran

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

Doug Stanhope

As long as the people who kinda wanna go kill other people are going to go kill other people who kinda wanna go kill other people, you're killing all the right people and opening up all the best parking spaces.

Doug Stanhope

I've jammed enough things up my own ass just trying to come on any amphetamine based narcotic.

Doug Stanhope

They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.

Doug Stanhope

All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs... and more holes, that's what you ladies need!

Nabil Sha'ath

He told me he meant everything he said in his speech.