Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gilmore Simms

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

Mark Twain

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Judith Martin

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Pat Schroeder

I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him

Stephen Wright

I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance.

Mark Twain

I do not want Michaelangelo for breakfast - but for luncheon - for dinner - for tea - for supper - for between meals.

Bryan Whitman

He has breakfast with members of Congress all the time. Senator Lieberman just returned from Iraq and he had some interesting observations. And he's been very outspoken about what he's seen and the progress that he thinks is being made there.

Truman Capote

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

W. C. Fields

I never eat before breakfast.

W. C. Fields

I must have a drink of breakfast.

Vladimir Nabokov

By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.

Jill Abbott

Dad was really looking forward to being a grandfather for the first time. Six weeks before 9/11, I had breakfast with him, and I told him that we were going to name the child after him.

Emile M. Cioran

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Billy Wilder

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Stephen Jay Gould

No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament.

Davy Jones

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.

Annie Dillard

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Stephen Vincent Benet

The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

Eminem

You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

Jack Higgins

Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.