Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Bai Ling

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Augustine Birrell

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

Augustine Birrell

The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.

Aubrey McClendon

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

Juvenal

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

C. S. Lewis

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Charles R. Swindoll

I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda!

Charles Churchill

Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Steve McKinney

The thing you notice about Domanick, like all great backs, when he's in there, he makes things happen. The line is blocking the same as they do with other backs, but for some reason when he's in there, you gain yards.

John Timoney

The one fortunate thing in this very tragic situation is that when it was happening, there were two officers from our SWAT unit just a block away, so they got here quite fast and were able to evacuate people from the scene,

Grant McCasland

South Plains has a talented wing in Harley but it looks like they've had other guys step up and play better for them. They're a team that can only get better. Our recipe for success no matter what is to get to the block and play inside-out.

Don Andrews

So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.

Chet Faker

Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter's heaps of fun, actually.

Tom Hayes

Now, it's a block and a half away. When you're limping, that's a long block.

Jonny Moseley

Now he's got it even worse because everybody wants a piece of him. But I think he should just block everything out, show up and finally win that thing.

Mike Cavic

No two pools are the same and at Stanford, we'll have to get used to the feeling of the starting block and what the wall looks like when we're coming in.

Billy Carter

I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.

Bill Hicks

I've said all that I've had to say.

Amanda Hocking

Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.

Susan Sontag

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

Rick Riordan

Cool" Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.

Rick Riordan

You both should feel honored.” “Right, very honored,” I said. “Always wanted to be possessed!

Ruth Bernhard

I always said 'yes' to everything.

Rumi

In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here.

Red Buttons

Eve said to the serpent, 'You know I could go for a bit to eat, but I don't know you from Adam.'