Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arundhati Roy

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

Demetri Martin

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

Bob Dylan

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

Bob Dylan

She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Eckhart Tolle

The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

Aristotle

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Dick Davies

The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish.

William Shakespeare

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Charles Lamb

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Baudelaire

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Edward Looney

We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.

Merle Olberding

There wasn't any gambling about it because the game was on the line, and they weren't going to do us any good sitting on the bench.

Brendan Conway

There were numerous intercepts that he was running a gambling operation. There was one 28-day period in Nov. 2005 when he placed more than $3 million in bets.

Ed Smith

Some people just won't come gambling because gambling and smoking go hand in hand.

Mark Cuban

I'm scared shitless of heights.

Agnes Repplier

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

Calvin Harris

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

Edwin Louis Cole

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

Edward Gorey

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Frank Bright

It's tantamount to trying to measure the surface of the earth, from Mount Everest...all the way down to the height of a raisin, and be able to see it all in detail.

Callum Henderson

A third positive number in a row heightens expectations for the BOJ to raise policy next week. That will underpin the yen.

Frank Tolbert

It was our height vs. their quickness, and they're quick leapers. This was a win we had to have.

Caitlin Flanagan

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.