Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teresa Kerry

John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country,

Winston Churchill

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts

Jeff Flowers

He should be 6-0; he's given up three earned runs in three games. That's tough, in high school, to still lose.

Atharva Veda

LAKSHMI or wealth accrues by fair means as well as foul; money is earned by gambling, by various forms of deceit; by highway robbery; by high and low; by all and sundry.

Doug Bruno

Our players have earned the right to have the stage here in Chicago.

Robert Gottlieb

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

Michael Kiwanuka

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

Perry Wildeboer

I'll say this. Brock has earned everything ? nothing's been given to him.

Larry Eustachy

I'll tell you what, the most important thing was we found a way to win, and it wasn't handed to us, we earned it.

Cecelia Ahern

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

David Holmes

I think the market is very healthy. With investors still waiting on the sidelines to get in, I just don't see the market falling away.

Randy Johnson

I think the pieces are starting falling into place now which is good because you've got a month and a half left, so every game is important,

Chris Pratt

I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.

Robert H. Connelly

The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.

Rob Sheffield

Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

Richard P. Feynman

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.

Russell Brand

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

Russell Brand

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

Anita Diament

I'm not a literary writer. I didn't go to whatever school it is or have the mentor you need to get reviewed in the New York Times.

Joanne Kelly

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Henry Rollins

It's hard to judge literary merit.

Nancy Pearcey

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Ken Follett

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Pope Francis

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Terry Eagleton

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

Terry Eagleton

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Jami Attenberg

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

Mia Sara

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

Ed Orgeron

I'm disappointed we lost, but I'm mostly disappointed in myself not getting the team ready to play,

Michael Isikoff

The news comes in code, and mostly the silences speak.

Chellie Pingree

It's mostly window dressing. I don't think this will pass the straight-face test.

Jim Fischer

It will start out mostly as rain, end up as snow at the tail end of it.

Hamadoun Toure

They are mostly unidentified combatants killed with machetes.

Dan Oziminski

They have a tremendous defense. It was mostly my fault. I let it get to me. I should have slowed it down a little bit.

Lenilson Guedes

That's one of the mysteries we have to solve.

Donald Kennedy

As Science celebrates its 125th birthday, we've recognized that an examination of science's outstanding mysteries also reflects its tremendous accomplishments.

Rick Kaplan

It's a prize that's waiting to be taken,

David Hockney

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Jim Crace

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Aristotle

Those who act receive the prizes.

Andre Agassi

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

George Bernard Shaw

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Emily Saliers

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Alfred Bea

The $500,000 is the top prize in that game.

Goran Ivanisevic

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.