Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

Gretel Ehrlich

Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

Gina Carano

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

Gib Lewis

Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.

James D. Watson

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

Jacques Delors

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

James G. Frazer

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

Jeanne Moreau

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Aldous Huxley

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Alexander Pope

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

Dr. Seuss

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

Dolly Parton

When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

Deval Patrick

I don't want to be a senator.

Derek Luke

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

Dean Heller

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

Bella Thorne

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Angie Martinez

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Wendell Berry

There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.

Manfred von Richthofen

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Emile Hirsch

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

Emily Bronte

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.