Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rex Stout

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

William Morris

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

William J. Clinton

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

Richard Burton

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Robert Ringer

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

Robert Ludlum

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

Sarah Shahi

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

Robert Hunter

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

Robert Penn Warren

How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

Gail Johnson

Kelly is drop-dead gorgeous and very outgoing. On the ice, she is very determined. I think the team will make it to the end and hopefully win the gold.

Lee Smith

he was a great person..and, uh..he had a heart of gold...he never met an enemy.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Ilya Bryzgalov

He didn't win the Stanley Cup, but I hope he wins a gold medal in the Olympic Games.

George Packer

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.

Laura Skaer

Gold prices have people snooping around where they haven't snooped for a while. No question, there's an increase and interest in exploration.

Roger Diwan

Gold prices don't go up just because jewelers need more gold, they go up because gold is an investment. The same has happened to oil.

Ronald Leung

Gold is rising too fast, but as long as silver keeps going, it's hard to say when it will come down.

Robert Gottlieb

Gold is on 24-year highs because of a recent shift in investment allocations to commodities by a wide audience.

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Doyle Davidson

I talked with him maybe three times, I don't remember what about.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Tom Woods

He was a decent, law-abiding man. Maybe he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Dayton Moore

He can play first, and maybe a little outfield. But he's really a third baseman. I don't think you want to move him around.