Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

Charles Bukowski

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

Rene Daumal

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

Taylor Momsen

I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder—ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first.

Sylvia Plath

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

Sue Grafton

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

Sloane Crosley

My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara) You don’t ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to sever their arteries, or puncture organs, and it makes it even messier than normal. (Nykyrian)

Brian May

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

Mark Ruffalo

I come from a traditional theater background.

William Shatner

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

Raymond E. Feist

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

Kelly Slater

I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.

Kelly Slater

It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.

Paul Walker

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.

Lee Pace

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

Caroline Corr

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

Linda Hamilton

Coach McBride's wife . . . you don't see too many women, from another race, to be hugging a big, old black guy like me,

Gene Cathcart

Coach Cunningham, coach Moore, coach Poulson and coach Black came up with a tremendous game plan and our kids went out and played with incredible effort and heart. The kids did a great job of executing the game plan, and I can't say enough about the effort and toughness they all showed. This is the kind of defense that championship teams are built on.

Alphonso Jackson

The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community that blacks aren't capable of self-advancement.

Carlton Cuse

The thing we love most about Hurley is he's somehow able to say what people are saying in their living rooms just about the time people are saying it. We thought everyone's expectation would be for her to have a black husband. We wanted to confound everyone's expectation. Everyone would be looking for the 50-year-old black guy.

C. C. H. Pounder

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

Saffron Aldridge

I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.

Jeremy Mayfield

I've always wanted to run a black car, ... They just look cool, especially under the lights for a night race. I like to operate in stealth mode, and maybe they won't see me coming in the black Dodge Charger. Hopefully I can drive right by them to the front of the field.

Joanna Lumley

I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely.

John Sayles

The movie starts on a broader level, with black humor. But when you realize the joke is on us, it's not so funny.