Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

Willie Aames

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

William Wordsworth

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

William Saroyan

Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.

William J. Clinton

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

William Friedkin

I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.

William Faulkner

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

Rhys Ifans

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

Jacob Latimore

I don't really like to go out that much. But when I do, I go to the movies, just hang out with friends. I go on Skype and iChat and just chill.

Ogden Nash

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

Patti Smith

I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

Ozzy Osbourne

If I go out with a jacket and a pair of trousers that my wife doesn't like, you can bet your ass it ain't in my wardrobe the following day. I say that it gets lost in the sky.

Oswald Chambers

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

Paul Hawken

The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their wants and needs is stripping earth of its biotic capacity to produce life; a climactic burst of consumption by a single species is overwhelming the skies, earth, waters, and fauna.

Kate Chopin

She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

Kim Harrison

Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)

W. S. Gilbert

The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

Tracee Ellis Ross

Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To reach a port we must set sail

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is time to be old To take in sail.

Alexander Dale Oen

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Andrew Jackson

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

Robert Bork

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Fernando Pessoa

Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

J. P. Morgan

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.