Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beeban Kidron

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

Nicolas Roeg

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

Chris Gaynor

We played our hearts out. It was just like last year's game with Gonzaga, except this one hurts even worse because we were this much closer.

Raymond Carver

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

Rebecca Solnit

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

Mark Zuckerberg

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Patrick Modiano

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

Patrick Chappatte

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Paul Auster

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Twyla Tharp

People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.'

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning.

Brooke Burke

I'm not a morning person. I'm really not.

C. S. Lewis

Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier.

Cecelia Ahern

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

Cecelia Ahern

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

Cecelia Ahern

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

Cecelia Ahern

Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

Carrie Underwood

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

Gloria Gaither

I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.

Andrew Abraham

The prayers worked, very simply. But we need more prayers. He's not out of it yet.

Brad Wood

We are just very thankful they're all safe. And our thoughts and prayers are with those who have no place to go.

Isiah Thomas

Our prayers and thoughts are with him. We will do everything that we're supposed to do and beyond.

Peter Frank

Obviously, our prayers are with (Robinson) regardless of all the other issues.

Jan Woodford

This was a tragedy and our thoughts and our prayers are with the families.

David Gates

We don't only give thanks and prayers for those who have fallen. We also give thanks to those that still serve.

Joan Bonvicini

This is a tragic situation. I don't know all the details. Our prayers are with the family.

Stan Heath

I don't know if this was a must win. But I know my prayers were answered.

Janet Fitch

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

David Toms

It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.

Bob Berg

It's up to people, whatever recreation they're doing, to do it responsibly.

Jim Marshall

On one hand, (they're) relieved and on the other hand, they're soldiers and they want to be there,

Sarah Rose

Just so relieved we have another year to turn things around for St. Joe's.

Ann Brashares

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

Mary Pierce

I am just very relieved to get through,

Danica Patrick

More than anything, I'm more relieved after this run.

Andrew Schwartz

Now that choke-hold has been relieved at least for a week.

Denise Baklid

We are ecstatic. We are relieved and we are truly blessed.

Carolyn Battaglia

I'm just relieved that the situation has been resolved.

Art Pulaski

He's rethinking some of his takeaways. We're relieved that he is.