Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Olson

bees dig the plum blossoms

Michael Jackson

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Kevin Hess

I guess we were both asked, because we were from right here in town. It's great for us. It's getting us ready for next year. Plus, as you can tell, our kids are pretty fond of ( Killer Bees mascot Sir Sting-A-Lot). They like him a lot.

Beyonce Knowles

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

Mohammad Khatami

Something that pains me, and for which I pity the American people, is that their leaders have fallen behind the times. They are not living in their times,

Bob Mattison

Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal.

Toba Beta

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone. When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none, or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

Roy H. Williams

Quentin had a tough night, but I still believe in him and still believe that he's going to be able to do some good things for us. He's got to put that behind him.

Dave Vestal

It was a huge play. Playmakers make plays and he got a chance to come back and make one. That's the sign of a very good player, someone who is able to come right back off a disappointment and put it behind him.

Dave Tippett

The shootout is going to provide very valuable points. If you don't take them seriously, you're going to be behind the game. We've talked about that since Day 1 of training camp.

David Palmer

I sense that, hopefully, the worst is behind us if we focus on a principal search recognizing that we need to have a collaborative process taking away lessons learned. That's a significant part of the healing process.

Terry Stotts

They are a good defensive team. That probably had something to do with it. But we played a little too much off the dribble. Certainly, we missed some shots that we could have had. The eight turnovers really puts you behind the 8-ball.

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Jim Furyk

Our team tends to be a little more loose, ... We have a little bit more fun during the Presidents Cup.

Sean Dillon

Our defense kind of locked them down a little bit during that run.

Michael A. Stackpole

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

Chris Campbell

Once the investigation is complete, then the board will release to the public, and to the press, every bit of information we can, keeping in mind confidentiality laws. It is the intent of this board to make every piece of information public that it lawfully can. We want this to be a very open conclusion.

Darren Clarke

Do you want to see guys wearing khakis and white shirts? Or do you want to see somebody a little bit different? There's more to us than just playing golf. I think it brightens it up and makes it a bit of fun.

Richard Hughes

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

Steve Ottoson

During that run we took some quick shots, then they came down and scored. We got down, lost our poise a little bit there ... you can't do that.

Tex Avery

He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him.

Philip Hoffman

The movie is about knowing that somebody has lost his soul out there, somebody has destroyed a part of himself. ... The minute he saw Perry Smith, the outcome was inevitable that two men would die -- one literally and the other figuratively.

Charles Mathis

The sand and the dirt is destroying the church.

John Park

It was a nice getaway, just like a little cabin. A lot of my members are distraught because they made something for everybody and some yahoo goes in and destroyed it for everybody.

Peter Hain

Even though I was a (Chelsea) fan, a fanatic, you actually wanted to see him do it -- you clapped him as he destroyed your team.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

either we communicate with each other or we destroy each other. If we do not help that 80 percent of the population in poverty, nobody will live a human life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy

William Douglas

We look to the heavens for help and uplift, but it is to the earth we are chained; it is from the earth that we must find our sustenance; it is on the earth that we must find solutions to the problems that promise to destroy all life here.

Hans Blix

We want to be serious when we come forward with accusations, as we were when ordering the Iraqis to destroy a very large missile program.

Zach Galligan

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Elaine Vogel

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

Alex Hernandez

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

Nancy Stewart

Homeowners who live here nine months of the year and go home to escape the heat of our summers are not tourists.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Jun Ishii

Koizumi's victory triggered a rally in stocks and fueled optimism about an escape from deflation.

Joey Estrella

That was big time. In that situation, I would have been happy to escape with two runs scored. That play held them to one and more importantly, it kept the momentum on our side.

Benito Mussolini

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Swami Vivekananda

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

Rollo May

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

Rumi

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Rumi

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Rumi

Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.

Rumi

If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.

Stevie Nicks

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

Edward Lincoln

So there's a different group of people managing the Japan relationship.

Bill Cowher

I've been waiting a long time to do this. This is yours, man. This is special group of coaches, a special group of players and I was a small part.

Kevin Wilson

Things have changed; we have a different group there. We have to put them (offensive linemen) in better positions, and we're going to do that as a team.

Joe Bline

This is a tremendous run for any group of kids.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we have ever reached the second round here. This is a different group than what we've had in the past, but we still seemed a little nervous today.

Lao Tzu

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

John Orgren

This group of 60-year-olds is probably the healthiest and wealthiest group of so-called retirees ever.

Karin Leary

This group knew they would not be making the trip upstate if they lost today and that was huge for them. They knew this could be it and they were not going to let that happen. They know where they want to go.

Jason Muzzatti

This group is a little better than the Devils.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

D. A. Carson

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Clara Schumann

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Clara Schumann

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

David Mamet

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

David Platt

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Ashe

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Melinda Shiraki

We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.

Richard Carmona

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Constantin Brancusi

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Albert Einstein

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Robert Frost

But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

Robert Frost

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....

Rita Dove

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Bella Heathcote

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.