Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

Charles Dickens

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Bill Watterson

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

David Sedaris

At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

Bible Bible

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour.

Dan Castellaneta

This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit.

James Whistler

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Juvenal

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Denis Waitley

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Kim Rupert

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

John Kimball

About 18 to 20 percent of the newspapers that reported had gains and most of those were smaller-market newspapers.

James Park

It's kind of a holiday snoozer, ... All of the big players have locked in their gains for this year. It's just going to be quiet with exaggerated movements because of low volume this week.

Ozan Akcin

This has been a phenomenal year for tech stocks and a lot of people want to lock these gains in and ride this out.

Ken Simonson

This marks a real turn around for non-residential construction. I think we will see more real gains in 2005.

Bill Hartley

This kid worked his rear off to get up here. I don't want to be sour grapes ... but I'm a father.

Frederic Raphael

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Juvenal

The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

Charles Bukowski

It's just that the grape has me down.

Aesop

I am sure the grapes are sour.

Alfred Adler

My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind.

Mathieu Schneider

Guys were upset over some of the things that were going on off the ice. But the timing of it, it sounded like sour grapes after losing.