Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maxwell Anderson

There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in t

Neil Young

Ain't it hard when you wake up in the morning, and you find out that those other days are gone... All you have is memories of happiness, lingering on... All your friends and your lovers won't protect you; they're only passing through you in the end... They'll leave you stripped of all that you can get to and wait for you to come back again... But still a light is shining, from that lamp on down the hall... Maybe the Star of Bethlehem wasn't a star at all.

Frank Slutsky

We're anticipating that the renewal of South Bethlehem will be huge.

William Butler Yeats

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last slouches toward Bethlehem to be born

Philip Farah

Bethlehem is especially hard hit by the wall. The wall cuts through a lot of people's properties. And if the property is cut by the separation wall, then they stand to lose the part of the property that is on the other side.

Kamran Afshar

What's good about the Lehigh Valley is that we are not dependent on a single industry. We now have a variety of companies here, and we're not relying on the former Bethlehem Steel.

Hanna Nasser

We don't see any reason why the city of Bethlehem and the district of Bethlehem should be closed,

Victor Batarseh

We demand the Israelis give Bethlehem freedom. If they won't do it then we won't have peace this Christmas.

Rush Holt

I would say the president has the power to help us get to the bottom of this matter. And we in Congress want to do this not so much for what has happened but to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Mike Woodson

I think it goes without saying that Joe is a huge piece to what we're trying to do in terms of turning this thing around and ultimately making the playoffs, which is the bottom line and why I'm here.

Brian Hill

He just has a lot of pain in that abdominal area, and we're just trying to get to the bottom of it.

Seth Shostak

The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.

Chip Babcock

There are so many insiders from the top and bottom who have pleaded guilty. I'm not sure as a juror I'd be too suspicious of them.

Gary Sheffield

The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.

David Johnson

He's got to bottom out at some point.

Jennifer Leidig

Historically, we have an international cachet about our city. The bottom line is that we're Saratoga Springs, New York. We are interested in international tourism, but we still have to pay our own bills.

Mike Brennan

I think it's great and should have been done years ago. It's just common sense for safety alone. I've had a couple of girls get hit by pitches in the face, and the safety of the kids is the bottom line.

Danny Sheaffer

I would think it's a no-brainer you carry three catchers (in the playoffs). And there are no other catchers on the roster. Mike did a heck of a job defensively. ... Mike can be proud of the fact when he caught in the big leagues, the lead didn't diminish at all.

Jeff Davis

I wouldn't be surprised (if the rally continued next week), ... There's a lot of momentum that can carry into the coming weeks.

Ronnie Brown

I wouldn't be surprised if he called me later on this week and put some kind of wager out there as far as yards per carry or something.

Steve Bruce

Kenny Cunningham is in a similar position to Roy. He's good enough to carry on playing a few seasons. He doesn't drink or smoke and he's the first in to training every morning.

Dave Jones

I think it's a great idea. If you carry a weapon, you're going to use a weapon, that's as simple as it gets.

Dionny Reynolds

It ain't me no more. Just because I'm gone, it's still somebody out here that's going to carry the legacy. It's still going to be that one cat out here that's going to do it again. This ain't the last time this is going to happen.

Paul Nisbet

...He knows what he's doing. I think we'll just see a very good team being formed here that will carry on with what Debbie Hopkins started. We have a 'buy' on it. We feel that it was a good move to get this over with quickly. We've always had the utmost regard for Mike Sears.

Paul Bremer

He is virulently anti-Western and is particularly anti-American, ... and he has the resources to fund considerable anti-American or anti-Western activity. So he is a concern, because he's got a clear motive and he's got the means to carry out -- or to pay people to carry out -- attacks.

Naeem Khan

has confessed to carrying out bombings in Lahore, Kasur and Faisalabad.

Ken Hill

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

Chris Chute

keeps all doors open as long as possible until the real opportunities start to shape themselves.

Kevin Sigana

He lived with them for a while, and I guess it was a mother-type relationship. Whenever he wanted, he could come and stay. It was an open door for him.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan opened the door to 50-basis-point rate hikes,

John Challenger

Going through the front door is a lot better than e-mailing your resume and waiting for them to call.

Tim Walsh

His parents always opened their doors to us.

Jose Barroso

Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, the European Union has opened its door to Turkey,

P. J. Harvey

We've been throwing the rocks pretty well, I'm not putting the broom where we need to put it. I'm not reading the ice very well, which is part of our problem. But we've got to make the shots when we have the opportunity, and we haven't been doing that. When there's a door open, we're not going in.

Larry Shaw

West Virginia wrestling will have a big void. It will be something to not see him in the corner. There's a lot of history going out the door with him. He's a tremendous person and has had a tremendous impact on West Virginia wrestling.

Sukhjinder Singh

He (didn't) really even have one gray hair in his head. I look older than him.

Marcia Carroll

I don't know why he wanted it black. I thought the gray would not be depressing.

Anna Lee

I'll be an old woman with gray hair.

Dave Grosshuesch

That is the highest number of great gray owls ever banded in a single season in the world.

Jerry Garcia

Oh well a touch of gray kind of suits you anyway.

Muhammad Ali

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

German Gref

The size of the gray market should be reduced at least down to 15% by the end of this year.

John Stack

That's why we get prematurely gray and have gastrointestinal problems. There have been a lot of big, glitzy stories, but if you play the odds, maybe the rest of year is quiet.

Marge Gibson

You should start seeing little heads at about three weeks, little gray heads and then they turn white. You'll probably hear them before you'll see them, because they're very squawky.

Andrew Wilson

I think it's tough for the young guys to really understand what the NIT is all about because nobody really grows up watching the NIT. Unless you've been there and played in it, it's hard to have a feel for how intense it is.

Woody Allen

I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead.

Woody Allen

I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.

Annie Golden

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

Oliver Bierhoff

It's the sum of many parts which grow to be something great.

Mark Victor Hansen

You never know how much you can grow.

Queen Victoria

Everybody grows but me.

Konrad Adenauer

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.

Elisabeth Shue

Every experience makes you grow.

Brad Hintz

I would say they're the weakest trading house on Wall Street.

David Gregory

Kelly O'Donnell at the White House for us this morning. Kelly thanks very much.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Mike Nichols

What we've offered is a house where they could all live.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Cecil Roberts

going under your house and taking the support beams out.

Kim Etheredge

He's downsizing. It's 15,000 square feet. That's a very large house for one person.

Fred Siegel

It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students,

Stan Turner

We try to get to every house in Keizer.

Antonio Banderas

I think it actually will be an interesting play. I think it is a very smart proposal for theater.

Robert Wyatt

We're proposing a very simple LNG import terminal,

Meg Mallon

I don't even look at it as a proper score.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Rick Reed

He has made several airplanes essentially to scale and proper proportion.

Mike Barnett

This wasn't anything to with trying to prop up the franchise,

Robert Lowell

In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.

Werner Herzog

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.

Walter Savage Landor

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

Hank Blalock

It is just part of Spring Training soreness. If this was during the season, I'd play through it.

Richelle Mead

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

William Zinsser

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William Wordsworth

Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

William Wordsworth

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

William Wordsworth

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Paul Dergarabedian

You could say the 'NC' stands for 'No Cash,'

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Joan Maloney

It stands for a time, not a place.

Dale Tea

As it stands now, I don't know what it means.

Robert Lansing

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Daniel Larson

He's about as big a star as you can get. I can't think of anything that will top this.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Brian Finnerty

I think when we start to get strong numbers, that's when we take off again.

Gary Shaw

We try to give them a little leeway. They're not always staring at their watches.

Mike Bradley

We're off to a strong start in 2006.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Jeff Borris

He's always had the weight of the world on his shoulders. But when he steps on the field, he's got tunnel vision.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

Richelle Mead

What...what are you doing?" "I won't know," he said with a grin. He took a step towards me. "But I'm pretty sure you were doing it too.

Regina Spektor

Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.

Tracy Spiridakos

When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that.

Saint Francis de Sales

The Lord delights in every little step you take.

Vince Vaughn

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Zig Ziglar

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Rusty Wallace

I made my decision. I'm sticking to it,

David Albright

sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.

Sean Elliott

Nothing too strenuous, is what I've been told. I'm sticking to that.

Zhang Qiyue

It's very important to stick to that consensus.

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Martin Lawrence

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've decided to stick with love.

Jim Dalzell

The devastation is going to stick with me for a long time.

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Satish Kumar

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Sarah McLachlan

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water

Sara Teasdale

But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Sarah Silverman

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

Trevor Noah

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.

Tracy Morgan

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

Robert Reich

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

Robert Mugabe

We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.

William Shenstone

Written on a Window of an Inn,

Samuel Beckett

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

Wendell Berry

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

Pat Schneider

And what is more generous than a window?

Mark Twain

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Tom Silva

A lot of times, those windows can be refurbished.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Arthur Rimbaud

I could never throw Love out of the window.