Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rex Stout

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.

Robert Carlyle

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Rob Bell

No one has the last word other than God.

William Blake

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Samuel Richardson

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Vladimir Nabokov

for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Frank Morgan

I was an admirer of Art Pepper even before I went to California, when he was still in Kenton's band. His playing is joyous, great.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Harriet Harman

I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

Clint Eastwood

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Allan Gurganus

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.

Allan Gurganus

I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.

Marilynne Robinson

I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.

Phil Klay

I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.

Harry Houdini

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

Cindy Sheehan

I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.

Bob Holthus

He wasn't taking any deep breaths when he came back. He's a dead-fit horse.

Rob Bell

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

John Fithian

I'm confident in our summer, and that we'll get a lead over last year. If there's a question, it's whether we can hold it when we get to October and November. Then we're holding our breaths a little.

Romeo Crennel

All day, we were holding our breaths on their kickoffs. He's pretty fast. We were able to ... keep him from scoring (return) touchdowns, but it was difficult. He kept getting in the open and starting foot races and you're not going to win many foot races with that guy.

Joe Elliott

The Vatican takes your breath away.

Becky Chittom

There was no color in his face, but once I was able to get some breaths in him the color started to come back.

Maeve Binchy

I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.

Cat Osterman

But I wasn't getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep breaths and let myself get my timing back.