Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

According to Festus, our flying table, Buford, made it back safely while we were in Charleston, so those eagles didn't get him. Unfortunately, he lost the laundry bag with your pants." "Dang it!" Frank Barked, which Leo figured was probably severe profanity for him. No doubt Frank would've cursed some more -busting out the golly gees and the gosh darns- but Percy interrupted by doubling over and groaning. "Did the world just turn upside down?" he asked. Jason pressed his hands to his head. "Yeah, and it's spinning. Everything is yellow. Is it supposed to be yellow?

William Wordsworth

The Eagle, he was lord above

William J. Clinton

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

Warren Buffett

If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

William Blake

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

William Cowper

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.

Wes Anderson

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

Zakk Wylde

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

Jim Haslett

If I was the Cowboys, Eagles or Redskins, I'd be really mad at them for giving the Giants an extra home game,

Rory McCann

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

William Wilberforce

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

Quentin Jammer

He doesn't keep me up. I think the more you worry the worse you play. If you get too worried about him, you're going be worried about him on Sunday when you play and it's going take you out of your game.

Richard Baxter

Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!

Truman Capote

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Rick Riordan

Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

Rick Riordan

Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.

Reynolds Price

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

William Lyon Phelps

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Robert Jordan

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

John Heywood

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

Alan Perlis

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Alice Munro

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Ronald Reagan

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

George W. Bush

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Jack Hanna

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

Horace

Hatched in the same nest.