Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles

Ruth Rendell

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

John Banville

Someone said the best gift a man can give his son is to die young. When you think about it, it's true. I was in my early 30s and I did feel freed by it, awful as it is to confess.

The Wizard

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

Leonard Hamilton

South Carolina will test us physically. They change defenses an awful lot and try to keep you out of rhythm.

Frank Vavala

It was an excellent ,thought-provoking exercise. I think we all learned a great deal and we have an awful lot to learn.

Ellen Burstyn

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.

Keeley Hawes

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

Larry Nelson

We've spent an awful lot of money, but we decided that the number one need was interoperability,

Matt Johnson

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

Denis McDonough

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Jeffrey Thomas

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'

J. M. Roberts

I've always thought it would be so fun to have brothers and sisters to fight with,

Abu Sabaya

The Muslims are our brothers . . . I am not saying we have no contact with them.

Drew Goddard

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

William Empson

So your flesh shall be part of mine And part of mine be yours. Brother and sister we shall be Whose unity endures. Always the sister doll will cry, Made in these careful ways, Cry on and on, Come back to me, Come back, in a few days.

Julie Walters

One girl's father offered to take the pictures and we all worked together to come up with the themes for each photograph. We had an initial donation by one girl's brother to cover all the production costs and now we have calendars ready for sale.

Daniel Boone

Soon after this, my companion in captivity, John Stewart, was killed by the savages, and the man that came with my brother returned home by himself.

Ben Johnson

The things that are working here are locally driven right now.

Brian Wilson

What they do, they do well. They are pretty goal driven and work hard.

Phil Keoghan

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

Ray Neidl

Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Evelyn Lauder

I've always been a person who is driven.

Ella Eyre

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

Lisa Kleypas

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Scott Owens

Am I (going) straight? I haven't driven in three years. My parents won't let me,

Sergio Garcia

The market is being driven by the rally in New York, but overall we have the typically thin volume for the month of December.

Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Al Michaels

It would be a nice way for this whole run to end with the first overtime Super Bowl.

Jonathan Simon

It would be nice if I could come back to Auburn. It would be nice to give back.

Ann Beattie

It was very much a surprise. It's very nice when someone takes notice.

Ryan Giggs

The rivalry between the two teams is massive, so it's always nice to play them and even nicer to win.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Glenys Bakker

We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.

Brendan Fraser

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.

Jane Kaczmarek

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

Jim Yong Kim

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Arthur C. Clarke

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Wang Jianlin

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Eckhart Tolle

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Britney Spears

I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.