Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Taylor

He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.

William Butler Yeats

The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

Walter Scott

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Veronica Roth

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

Eric Bana

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

Kevin Furtado

It's part of the mystery of the grape. I thought there would be more of a formula, but there isn't. I have a lot of respect for the winegrowers in the Russian River Valley.

Patrick Freitas

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Lenny Wilkens

I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.

Robbie Coltraine

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

Richard Ben-Veniste

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Woodrow Wilson

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

William Shenstone

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

William James

Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

Susan Jackson

We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Roberta Flack

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

Virgil

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

William Henry Ashley

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

Warren Buffett

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

William Blake

Dip him in the river who loves water.

Mikhail Bakunin

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Ronald Reagan

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

PJ Crowley

It's NATO's view that Russian troops should not deploy until all the arrangements have been completed.

Lee Harvey Oswald

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

Lucas Till

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

Natan Sharansky

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

Modest Mussorgsky

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

Paul Watson

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

Dan Glickman

Russian films, together with American films, incur losses.