Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Schadler

It's a jewel. It's beautiful, ... It's just a very elegant device. You want to hold it.

Marguerite Dalianes

It was a very elegant line, the Royal Viking.

I. Stone

Everyone who has seen it agrees, ... You have to see the Gyre's elegant motion in action. A description just won't do it.

Jochen Zeitz

The puma... the cat... is not just about power and speed and strength... but it is also a very elegant animal. That's what we've tried to reflect in our products.

Alber Elbaz

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

Chris Hadfield

I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.

Tawnya Gurney

I don't view it as an elegant place. It's a nice building, but it's mainly a home.

Janice Sutton

She had more than people who lived very well in elegant homes.

David Pottruck

My leaving Schwab was on less than elegant terms, ... What is really humbling is to have time to reflect on what you've done and what you could have done better.

Bernhard Schlink

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

Annette Johnson

They are starting to come in from parts of Louisiana and Texas. These supplies couldn't have come at a better time. I'm really, really happy. This gesture is just so overwhelming -- it really is.

Jack Nichols

It's a nice gesture on their part to want to be involved like that,

Phil Garner

It was a very nice gesture on the club's part,

Dave Barry

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

Sam Shepard

Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

Judy Dean

Sometimes they are just a gesture of a bush, but still able to survive. These are the roses that I want to preserve.

Emile Galle

Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.

Dan McKinney

This turning over the ground for me is a symbolic gesture of being able to raise something back on that ground of glory and beauty.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Ona Solomon

Sometimes we just go for our own pleasure.

Phil Jackson

This is something I never thought could possibly happen, ... It's a pleasure to come back.

Kathleen Glynn

This really is a pleasure, and I thank all of you.

Arthur Adamov

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Charles Lamb

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

Jane Austen

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Eddie Vedder

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

Robert Frost

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

Robert Anton Wilson

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Neil Gaiman

I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not.

Kin Hubbard

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

Lorrie Moore

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

David Brainerd

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

Catherine Helen Spence

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

Jack Holmes

Would I like to return there? Absolutely. But it's sponsor-driven, not heart-driven.

Bill Gross

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Russ Borman

We'll see them again, and we'd like to return the favor.

David Butler

They need to sell a lot of stuff to get down to the shrink-wrapped size they need to be to make a return to stockholders,

Imron Cotan

There will be no prosecutions if they return home, back to Indonesia.

Marat Safin

It wasn't my day today on the serve, Gisela was returning winners on my serve so it was kind of embarrassing for me,

Jody Watley

The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

Kathie Lee Gifford

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Benh Zeitlin

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

Audrey Hepburn

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Arthur Rimbaud

Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!

Aaron Tveit

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

Charlie Daniels

You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been

Chetan Bhagat

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

Chaim Potok

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

Billy West

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.