Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

Peter Akinola

Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.

Peggy Noonan

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

Martin Van Creveld

We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.

Michel de Montaigne

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Michael Scheuer

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

Mark Twain

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

Flann O'Brien

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Tim Mambort

We went in pretty confident. It was all right. I don't think we were that thrilled about it.

Cynthia Kenyon

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Tom Robbins

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

John Wagner

There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.

Lee Child

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

Carolyn Clark

I am thrilled for her. It's her dream.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Ferran Adria

For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

Christopher Little

Ms. Rowling is thrilled to have been vindicated so clearly,

John Ruskin

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.

Dav Pilkey

The show was really funny and charming, ... And I loved how it seemed like it was just thrown together at the last minute.

Anne Swetchine

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

Erma Bombeck

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. BY all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Lewis Carroll

You may seek it with thimbles - and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-share; You may charm it with smiles and soap

Terry Crews

A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.