Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Godfrey Leland

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

Greg Drescher

You often hear about ingredients being found, whether it is corn or ancient grains, but it is not too often that you hear about something as complex as noodles.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Bible Bible

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Paul Armstrong

You betrayed the ancient foundations of the healing professions.

Karl Marx

Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Patrick Stump

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

Michael Barrett

This one should be lots of fun, ... especially hosted by Paul Woodiel, a man with an inquisitive musical spirit. Paul is a classical and theatrical performer and an expert in ancient and traditional fiddle music. Every year, Paul and I tackle another idea, after which Paul finds the musicians and tells the story to his eager audience.

Bible Bible

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God's approval. (Hebrews 11:1-2)

Megan Smith

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

Ernest Mandel

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

Ron Redmond

After more than a quarter of a century of misrule, much still remains to be done to rebuild the country. Overall, the conditions are in place for refugees to return to their country in safety and dignity.

Ben Hecht

Once you're online and you see its power, you never go back. What we want to make sure of is that the nation has 21st century infrastructure for information for low-income people.

Kate Adie

Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people.

William LeFevre

The stock market continues to react to John Q. Public. We used to watch century marks in the Dow. Now we watch millenniums.

Robert Pinsky

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.

Lori Smith

We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.

Twyla Tharp

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Tim Peters

North Korean women, in particular, are in extreme peril in terms of being snared by human traffickers either to be sold into marriage to a Chinese person or to be pulled into the sex trade.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.

Sung Kang

I've actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, 'The Chinese Guy from 'Fast & Furious' Pulled Over for a Speeding Ticket.'

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Robert Holleyman

These discussions are headed in the right direction, and we remain hopeful that the Chinese government will translate these principles into concrete action.

Mandy Chan

There won't be surprises on the upside. The market will be resilient, though profit-taking will continue on Chinese equities.

Lu Xiaowen

Aiding the needy has always been a traditional Chinese virtue.

Nie Haisheng

We're grateful for the deep love and concern by all Chinese people, the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan compatriots.

Jacob Lew

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

Richard Hayne

At URBN, we see ourselves as customer specialists, a collection of brands, each one specializing in one particular customer group, a particular lifestyle or a life stage. We offer her things she wants in environments that inspire her. We talk to her and listen to her ideas and opinions.

William Penn

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . . .

Peter Doyle

Operational efficiencies resulting from management interventions over several years, in terms of improved cost management, better quality of new business, more focused premium collection and more competitive investment performance in particular, are largely responsible for this incremental value-add for stakeholders,

Vito Galati

The three of us took work off to start a collection of donations for hurricane victims.

James Doran

The museum has probably the finest collection of its kind in the country.

Michael Kors

The store recently held an exclusive preview of Kors's fall collection. Zac Posen also has been popular this season, as has Jacobs, whose fall collection Monahan called a ''statement.

Dan Owens

This is as good a collection of players as I can remember.

Patrick Cox

This is the first time that we've put together this collection of extremely rare documents for travel.

Harry Hamlin

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

John Curry

I've never felt anything like that. That was the most incredible feeling I've ever had.

Mark Calcavecchia

After missing so many, I had a feeling I was going to make it. That's one of my better pars of the year.

Mark Calcavecchia

After missing so many, I had a feeling I was going to make it, ... That's one of my better pars of the year.

Tatiana Totmianina

Sometimes it looks good but you are not feeling comfortable inside. But if it looks good, it means it is good.

Steve Sparks

I started feeling better and better the whole way through.

KJ Choi

I've been feeling good with my putter and I haven't missed many shots.

Adam Haluska

I've been feeling good about my shot for the last two weeks.

Kenny Phillips

I've never had a feeling like this before,

Robert McGrath

You're going to be more stress-free if you concentrate on the material you're studying as opposed to feeling pressure.

Fred Cohen

Dennis is very affable. He likes to joke all the time. He has a very open personality. I thought I would like to write a piece for him.

Ben Falcone

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Artie Lange

Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

Shawn Michaels

Everyone's in on the joke as it were,

Adam Brody

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Storm Jameson

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth ...

Stephen Colbert

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

Mason Cooley

Jokes are unanswerable objections.

Mike Birbiglia

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

Billy Corgan

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Rene Descartes

There is nothing so strange or so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another

Shaun White

What a strange bunch. Where would one find a Fabio cutout?

Dolly Parton

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

Ally Condie

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

Albert Camus

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

Albert Camus

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

Clemence Poesy

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Seamus Heaney

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.