Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Rees Brennan

Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own.

Paul Erdos

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Patrick Ness

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

John Flanagan

Sit down, Will. There’s a good fellow,” he said. “Yes, sir,” replied Will, and Halt’s eyebrows shot up in surprise. “He’s never called me sir,” he said. “Probably trying to get on my good side,” Crowley replied. Halt nodded savagely. “Probably.

Carl Crawford

They make you raise your eyebrows when you understand how hard they are to get to.

Denise Richards

But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.

Barbara Tuchman

No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

Bram Stoker

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

Arthur Smith

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Richard Dawkins

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

Russell Baker

A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

Roald Hoffmann

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

Winston Churchill

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Terrence Howard

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can

Ramakrishna

One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

Lee Van Cleef

One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

George MacDonald

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

Bryan Gilmore

I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine.

Richelle Mead

I don’t know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit.” “I— I figured it’d be a shame to ruin your pretty face,” I stammered.

Richelle Mead

You’re killing me here, Sage!” “I’m not doing anything.” “Exactly my point.

Zhuangzi

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Joseph Glanvill

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

Ramana Maharshi

Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

Maimonides

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Charles Mackay

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.