Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Pat Conroy

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

James Thompson

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot

James Thompson

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot

Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Barry Corbin

Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.

Richard Thomas

I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.

Thomas Cole

Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden.

Sandra Moore

She is pretty healthy for her age; she doesn't have anything major. She uses a walker by herself. She reads the paper from her hometown. She can really be a delightful person to be around.

Carl Hiaasen

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong, ... it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

Tim Samuelson

This kind of drawing was in a lot of Sullivan and Adler buildings, and once Wright leaves their offices, this kind of ornament disappears altogether, but reappears in Wright's independent projects. So this is probably his design.

Thomas Vinje

Hes very good at pulling rabbits out of hats, but the rabbit disappears in the end.

Lao Tzu

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

David Quammen

Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.

Geno Auriemma

It just kind of disappears out of nowhere. There'll be five possessions where you'll think, 'Holy cow, that's an unbelievable play!' And then it just disappears.

Iain Sinclair

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

Carl Hiaasen

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Cherie Lunghi

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Alan Watts

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

Bill Nighy

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

Charlie Munger

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Tyler Cowen

Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.

Charles Krauthammer

Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

Scott Carroll

It's not that odd for me, but it's a little different because you can't do the locker-room thing.

Raza Jaffrey

There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.

Joel Silver

It's an odd little movie. We weren't sure who would show up.

Rev. Barham

And then he hitched his trousers up, as is, I'm told, their use, / - It's very odd that Sailor-men should wear those things so loose.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Jonathan Schell

No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.

David Platt

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

David Platt

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Andre Gide

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Thorstein Veblen

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

China Mieville

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Bob Geldof

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Ray Durham

I told the (team) I'm going to come back. I like everyone here. I like everything about San Francisco.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Michael Gartenberg

A lot of what we've seen in Vista has similarities with Tiger.

Pam Davis

It smells putrid. If I had come by myself and seen this, I probably wouldn't have stayed.

Dan Sumner

It's the trend we've seen for a long time.

Leo Beenhakker

(There will be) no new guys. We have seen everybody.

Michael Hearst

It's a different distribution than we've seen before.

Emily LaGrassa

It's a little unclear why he was released. They should have seen that he had a warrant.

Michael Kelley

This is what's coming, ... We haven't seen the worst of it yet.

William Carwile

This is unlike what we have seen before.

Ben Johnson

This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my career.