Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nellie Bly

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

P. J. O'Rourke

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

Haruki Murakami

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

Kenneth Branagh

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Verron Haynes

We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.

Edward Heath

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Kelly Robinson

I told them that we have to treat this like a championship series and that it's going to be smooth sailing after this.

Dave Barry

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.

Dave Barry

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

Dave Barry

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Charles Kingsley

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

Elizabeth Bishop

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Albert Einstein

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Don Crawford

It is shocking, mysterious and devastating and I don't understand it!

Gail Godwin

...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Albert Pike

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

Albert Einstein

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

E. M. Forster

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.