Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zadie Smith

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

Sharon Johnson

They were already vulnerable. This is just salt to the wound.

Joe Dumars

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

Kajol

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

Pat Conroy

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

Mark Wahlberg

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Philip Yancey

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

Terry Bradshaw

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

Les Dawson

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

Joey Santiago

I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.

Melanie Rawn

I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

Jeri Ryan

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

Sri Chinmoy

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

Mark Strand

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your ""Unabridged"" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Bronson Arroyo

It ain't over until the skinny lad sings.

Chris Turner

He's a big lad with a real physical presence and we feel he's got potential.

Don Hays

Ladies and Gentlemen, the wall-of-worry is being rebuilt strong and wide,

Saint Augustine

We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

Dion Custis

(He) is not a cold-blooded murderer, ladies and gentlemen, he reacted. There was no thought process.

Woody Allen

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Wally Schirra

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while

Winston Churchill

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

Tony McCoy

Really racing is about the horses, not me. You can't do it without the horses, and they are the big players as are the lads who look after them, and they rarely get a mention.