Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Olivier Martinez

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Oliver Goldsmith

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Pope Benedict XVI

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right -- it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society.

Ryan Whitney

I went to put my stick between his legs and lift his stick up, but I just got him too high. I didn't mean to spear him. It was just an accident.

Mahatma Gandhi

Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

Larry Gelbart

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

Novak Djokovic

No, I have something else between my legs.

Emile Zola

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Epictetus

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Bret Bielema

It was an opportunity for them to get their legs back under them.

Jarret Stoll

It's going to be an important March for us, an important March for everybody. It's going to be important for us to get our legs under us right away.

Carly Rae Jepsen

You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.'

Navjot Singh Sidhu

The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

Charles Caleb Colton

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Buffalo Bill

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Ron Perlman

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

George Orwell

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Gunter Grass

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

A. A. Milne

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.