Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl von Clausewitz

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Anne Lamott

It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.

Rita Dove

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Rajneesh

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

Stephen Moyer

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.

Stephenie Meyer

For almost ninety years I’ve walked among my kind, and yours… all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren’t alive yet.

Stephenie Meyer

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

Stephenie Meyer

Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

Stephenie Meyer

Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

Sir Sidney

Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

E. O. Wilson

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

David Mamet

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

Bill Vaughan

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

Chinua Achebe

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Roger Morris

This software models any contagious disease. Basically, what we can do is to give the model the characteristics of any contagious disease, such as bird flu, foot and mouth disease or SARS.

e. e. cummings

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

Alexander Pope

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

Roger Tory Peterson

Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.

Rio Ferdinand

If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

Myron Scholes

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

Lydia M. Child

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Noureddin Mona

Nobody can rule it out. It's premature to say bird flu is under control. Scientifically and operationally, you can't say it's under control, the opportunity is always there.

Wen Jiabao

China has conducted technological exchanges and cooperation with the international community on prevention and control of bird flu.