Famous Quotes & Sayings

Libba Bray

Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?

Edith Wharton

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

Steve Martin

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

Stephanie Zimbalist

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Neville Crichton

I would be surprised if we and Wild Oats were not in sight of each other all the way, unfortunately.

George Carlin

Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up.

Bill Bryson

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

Horace

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

Richard Perle

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Rebecca West

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

William Jennings Bryan

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

Woodrow Wilson

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

William James

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Robin Green

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robert Schumann

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Jim Hickey

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he starts,

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

John Heimlich

I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.

Jeff Candage

I'd be surprised that he would do something like that.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

Etan Thomas

In a way I'm surprised by that, and in a way I'm not.

Tim Sims

He was just wild enough to keep them off balance.

Colin Angle

It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.

Katherine Mansfield

The mind I love must have wild places.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Rene Syler

It's the kind of movie I'd like to go see and that my friends will always tell me, 'Go see this because it's kind of wild and different,'

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Denis Waitley

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.