Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romulus Whitaker

I'd like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothing to be proud of.

Persian Proverb

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Greg Skomal

If you think you're going to get bitten by a great white here, it won't happen.

S. Hughes

His fingernails are bitten to the quick, you can quote me on that. There is no way he could have done anything to the ball.

Astro Teller

If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.

Mark E. Smith

They are going to get stuck, or electrocuted, or bitten by snakes. We are trying to impress upon people that they simply can't go home right now.

Marilyn Manson

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.

Matthew Harrigan

They've bitten off so much now, and there's so much to do organically, that it doesn't make much sense to do too many more acquisitions at this point.

Elisha Cuthbert

I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Renato Vercesi

Investors were calmer today, thinking Wednesday's fears over inflation were exaggerated.

Jonathan Ames

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

Alexander Lebed

It's been long since I've lost all fears and concerns. I don't worry, I calculate.

Tim Heekin

It's a quiet day before Easter, and we're waiting for the bunny. You have people not wanting to make moves before a three day weekend, and you have some fears about terrorism -- with Rice speaking, and because this is a religious holiday.

Lon Anderson

There seems to be a good supply of gas. The governor's office sent out a release that there is a one-and-a-half to two-week supply of gas on hand in Virginia, so there is no reason for fears about a shortage of gas or gas lines.

Edil Baisalov

It was feeding instability and insecurity. There were these fears that after March 25 the mob would run the country.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Russell Baker

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Robert Shaw

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

Warren Buffett

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

Turkish Proverb

If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.

English 16th Century Proverbs

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

Turkish Proverbs

Do what your teacher says but not what he does.

English 16th Century Proverbs

The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.

Mahatma Gandhi

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Lily Collins

I’m a big fan of the whip... That snake whip was awesome!

Elizabeth Warren

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

Terry Pratchett

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Pearl Cleage

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

John Dingell

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.