Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wislawa Szymborska

Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.

Yukio Mishima

As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.

Henry Ford

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Nellie Bly

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Martin Amis

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

Prince Philip

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

Plutarch

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

David Sowerby

I think it is still a classic 'show-me' stock.

Todd Snyder

Guys have been missing looking clean and classic but still fun. It's been denim and jeans for so long now, they're ready for the next thing. Men have not really known what to wear.

George Thorogood

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Joshua Cohen

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

Dan Harmon

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

Sheldon Jacobs

What we went through is a classic bubble. I don't think 2001 is going to be a fantastic year.

Susan Hayward

What we have done in past years is we have different types of shows, the rock bands, the '70s shows. We've gone back over five to six years and looked to see what has done the best, and it has always been classic country.

William Shenstone

Written on a Window of an Inn,

Samuel Beckett

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

Wendell Berry

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

Pat Schneider

And what is more generous than a window?

Maria Callas

Don't come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can't make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.

Joseph Joubert

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

Mark Twain

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.