Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baha'u'llah

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

Barbara Stanwyck

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Barbara Mikulski

Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.

Augustus

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

Augusten Burroughs

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

Augusten Burroughs

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

Brian Andreas

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

Arthur Koestler

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

Carl Sandburg

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

Catherine Hardwicke

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

Alan Boss

Normally when you think of flea markets, you think of sweat socks and T-shirts. We're looking at young designers, art, photography, nothing mass-produced. We want to be cutting edge and unique.

Trilby Lundberg

Dealers are losing their profit margins, cutting prices to get sales,

Kari Fluegel

The shuttle is still on the cutting edge.

Rashad Anderson

A day hasn't gone by where I don't think about it. There's never a day I don't think about cutting down those nets again, the feeling we had in '04. We had a taste of it two years ago and we want it again.

Scott Briggs

Once we started making things more difficult for them, I don't think it was a coincidence that all of sudden we were cutting a little harder and we were screening a little better.

Ellen Russell

Sometimes right-of-center parties like deficits because it justifies cutting things. It can be very politically convenient.

Richard Preston

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.

Marjorie Brody

Say, 'I'm sorry,' only if you're not cutting off a speaker. Otherwise wait until later to apologize.

Drew Holcomb

There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.

Alex Flinn

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

Alexander McQueen

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

E. M. Forster

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

D. H. Lawrence

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

David Lyons

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

Anna Quindlen

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Andre Dubus

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

Tony Scott

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.