Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Carpenter

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

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Randy Osnes

We played Prairie Grove just once this year, and we won 10-0 in five innings. They will be ready, but we will be, too.

Bill Gates

There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hire the most people from of any university in the world. Waterloo has always been in the top five every year.

G. H. Hardy

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

John McBride

This year we had five very qualified candidates.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Anatole Broyard

Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity.

Anatole France

It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.

Anatole France

A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.

Anne Enright

I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

Anne Carson

Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

Rita Hayworth

I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.

Rita Mae Brown

Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

Rita Mae Brown

sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

Rita Mae Brown

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Stephen Graham

I like time ticking the way it is.

Marie Kondo

Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.

Maggie Cheung

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

Julie Morgenstern

If there's an emergency, someone will come get you. Use this time to think strategically about your work.