Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Packard

The shot was intended to go to her. Becky made a beautiful but difficult pass. Ruth caught it, had somebody hanging on her but hit the shot.

Kathy Miles

That this event took place this year and brought such a crowd is so good for the beautiful people of New Orleans.

Ayelet Waldman

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

Brian Andreas

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

Alain de Botton

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

Alain de Botton

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

Alain de Botton

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

Al Goldstein

I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club

Charles Jencks

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Mario Hernandez

It was all on fire and the roof had fallen in.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Marcus Miller

This is the first time we've played soccer in the spring; we have just played in the fall in the past, so it's kind of fun to see some different teams.

bell hooks

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

If you have someone falling out of the boat, you'd have to drag the boat up the river and film the same scene ten times, every time, dragging the boat exactly where it was up the river.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Edward Young

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

Edmund Spenser

What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.

Charles Bukowski

Angels, we have grown apart.

David Hogan

Do people want a concrete-lined river like in Los Angeles or a nice river with trees and vegetation? A critical habitat designation means we'd get the nice trees and vegetation.

Bible Bible

And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

Tim Ritchey

Angel has been bugging me for a year. He has always wanted to get on him. When they asked me to do this, and the X-rays were fine and everything was OK to go on the tack again, I called him up and said I've got something for you on Saturday. He was more than glad to do it. I think that it was something a little extra for the fans.

Shawn Springs

Both are fun, they're just different. It's like having an angel and a devil - I ain't saying which one is which.

Tom Jones

We were extremely pleased with the quantity and quality of business plan summaries we received for consideration and we were challenged to narrow the field to a manageable number to accommodate the logistics of the fair. Each of the presenting companies has a compelling business plan and we expect to see angel investors giving a good, hard look at each of these deals during the Angel Fair.

P. L. Travers

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

John Dilts

We are very pleased to expand our Southern California presence into Santa Barbara. It is a very dynamic community and we look forward to bringing Keiretsu Forum's collaborative investment process to the numerous angel investors in the region.

Stephen Jay Gould

Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.