Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.

Richard Whately

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Samuel Rogers

Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

Richard Foreman

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Robert De Niro

If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.

Samuel Johnson

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

Upton Sinclair

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Ryan Murphy

Tone is everything in TV.

Samuel Beckett

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Vince Vaughn

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Vince Carter

I'm just trying to set the tone for my teammates. I'm not trying to take over the game. It's for my team. I'm just being aggressive. I think that doing that, it frees up a lot of other things.

James Purefoy

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

Steve Cook

That really set the tone for our offense. It's been that way for us all year.

Aaron Boone

They completely set the tone for us tonight.

Jim Crosbie

They just kind of went for the jugular right off the bat. ... They're going to come out and try to set the tone early.