Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Quivers

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Mahatma Gandhi

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Marshall McLuhan

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Patrick McGoohan

We all live in a little Village,

Sharon Olds

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Peter Carey

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

Richard Pryor

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

Walt Whitman

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

Roger Ebert

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

Helmut Jahn

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

James Russell Lowell

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Emilio Pucci

We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.

Rachel McAdams

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Keegan Bradley

I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.

Peter S. Beagle

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Warren Buffett

Returns decrease as motion increases.

Salman Rushdie

Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.

W. S. Gilbert

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

Tony Vincent

I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

Roger Ebert

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

Whittaker Chambers

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

Ronald Reagan

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.