Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Sacco

The people whose work I've admired are people like George Orwell and others like Michael Herr and, of course, some of Hunter S. Thompson's work.

Dan Garton

We appreciate and admire the courageous efforts of U.S. military personnel around the world to keep our country safe and strong. And we recognize the great sacrifice that their family members also make. As a result, American Airlines is pleased to extend these special offers to military members and their loved ones.

Alan Hovhaness

There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient.

James Galway

Until this time in my life Julius Baker was one of the most admired names in the flute world.

Andre Leon Talley

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Mark Hyman

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Randy Forbes

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Harry Belafonte

We respect you, admire you, and we are expressing our full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and your revolution.

Richard Davis

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Charles Caleb Colton

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

Charles Spurgeon

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

Chogyam Trungpa

A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.

Chogyam Trungpa

Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance

Chip Conley

I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.

China Mieville

Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. For a Weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. To act--to Weave--was to bring about more pleasing patterns. They did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty.

Dean Acheson

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

David Dunn

All human beings hunger for appreciation.

David Dunn

Here is good news to those to whom enthusiasm does not come naturally: It can be cultivated. At first, you must consciously put your eyes, your voice, your spirit-in a word, yourself-into your appreciation of people and events and things. Do this around your home, at your work, and in your social contacts, and you will be surprised at how quickly it will become second nature. You will find yourself living in a more gracious and enthusiastic world, for your enthusiasm will be reflected back to you from the people to whom you give it.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Alan Ball

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

Alan Ball

It’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

Alan Ball

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Alan Ball

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

Alan Ball

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

Akhenaton

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Chita Rivera

Beauty is not everything!

Edmond de Goncourt

Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds? There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Diana Vreeland

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Thomas de Quincey

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

Mason Cooley

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

Jean Cocteau

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Samuel Johnson

Honesty is not greater where elegance is less.

Giorgio Armani

Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered.

Giorgio Armani

Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.

Giorgio Armani

Elegance is not about being noticed, its about being remembered.

Nate Lowman

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

Tim Zagat

Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis.

Max Heindel

The first step in Occultism is the study of the invisible Worlds. These Worlds are invisible to the majority of people because of the dormancy of the finer and higher senses whereby they may be perceived, in the same way that the Physical World about us is perceived through the physical senses.

Larry Sandburg

Have you ever seen a shortstop play a finer game than that. She probably saved two or three runs.

Tony Jackson

He's a spectacular human being. I've never met a finer person.

Michael Davis

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.

Joe Girardi

They learned a lot about the finer points of catching.

David Grant

It was a pretty resounding message, It has a finer grain, finer texture.

Woodrow Wilson

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Robert Seidel

When you have $10 million or $12 million, you're used to the finer things in life.

Ella Wilcox

Think your life was made for dreaming, nothing more,When God's work lies all unfinished at your door?

Joe Ross

There were so many lies throughout the trial.

Jeff Foster

There were several of them (lies), weren't there?

The Talmud

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Rig Veda

An untruthful person speaks lies and as a result, is short lived.

William Penn

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

James Salter

I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.

Shawn Chacon

I see what lies ahead, ... It's win or go home.

Georges Bernanos

The worst, the most corrupting of lies, are problems poorly stated,

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.