Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sidney Port

He's a wonderfully reliant public servant. I followed him for a while, but haven't lately because he satisfies me that he's doing the right things, and I know he's doing a great job in the various places that he has power.

Christopher Brown

I think the judge followed the law. I know it hurt Mr. Parker, but the judge did what was fair.

Beth Moore

We've been totally open about all this. We've really followed the rules here, and it's senseless why they should target us.

Bible Bible

When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

Julie Gerberding

Today, CDC has followed suit and has published the sequence of the virus.

Louis Font

I think they were trying to send a signal to young Marines that if they go, they will be followed to their graves by the Marine Corps.

Larry Wachtel

I think we're in the twilight zone. You have the confessional period followed by the summer doldrums, so there really isn't anything that's going to spur it to the upside.

Dwyane Wade

I was just doing what we always do and followed it up.

Dennis McNally

He was trustworthy, ... That's why people followed him.

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Rick Vernon

Going back to the '60's, we're one of the only schools that plays them year in and year out. When you play somebody for that period of time you're going to have that rivalry.

Ariel Sharon

I thought we could reach a period of respite before a cease-fire, ... But this is a war situation we are experiencing now and negotiations for a cease-fire will take place under fire.

Edmund Phelps

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Richard Pennington

He eluded us for a long period of time,

Richard Petty

Never put a question mark where God puts a Period

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Robert Carlyle

Hunger's a great spur.

William Blum

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

Jerry Yang

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

Tim Duncan

I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.

Tobias Smollett

Opposition is the very spur of love.

John Milton

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

Graham Roberts

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

Honore de Balzac

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Hyman Rickover

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Brian Waldron

We can co-exist with soccer, absolutely. They're essentially a summer sport and we're winter. We'll make it work beautifully.

Rob Sheffield

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.

Richard Paul Evans

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Russell Baker

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Roger Kahn

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Tyler Perry

Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

Truman Capote

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

Truman Capote

Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Rob Sheffield

Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.

Richard Whately

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Samuel Rogers

Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

Richard Foreman

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Robert De Niro

If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.

Samuel Johnson

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

Upton Sinclair

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.