Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

John Cross

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

Bhagavad Gita

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my separted material energies

Mahatma Gandhi

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed

Christopher Dodd

Earth Day is an occasion to reflect on what we can do to make our fragile world a cleaner, healthier, safer place to live.

David Schwartz

A tremendous job was done after the 1906 earthquake in making the observations of everything that really occurred. We are still using that report today as a fundamental source of material about what earthquakes do, and how to respond.

Mary Verrett

We win and yet we still lose, because we don't have him back. The world will know that James Byrd Jr. has lived on this Earth ... but he never wanted it to be this way.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

John Piper

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

Bob Dylan

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Blaise Pascal

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

Blaise Pascal

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Robby Ginepri

I served well and hit well off the ground and won the big points at the right time,

Stephen F. Lynch

To have no one on the ground is just inexcusable, sir.

Kazimierz Krzowski

There is a low possibility that people are still trapped under there. The parts of the structure that are not lying on the ground are a threat.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

John Conway

Ground zero is Charlotte. With all the garages, all the drivers, it's, like, natural.

Owen Miller

Ole Miss has a lot of potential. They've won there before. Is it going to be easy? No. There's no magic formula. You're just going to have to work every day. You've got to recruit. In the end, that's what it comes down to. We've got to hit the ground running.

Tom DeLay

He's taken the moral high ground to show how his opponents have taken the moral low ground.

Joe Moore

It is always interesting to put seed into the ground and see what comes up,

Joseph Lieberman

Last week, there was no support for American or NATO ground forces. Next week, I think there may be, because we understand more,

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Scott Owens

When I heard this morning, I said 'What?

Ian Hunter

When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono)

Steve Clark

To be honest, I never even thought of it or heard of it.

Kyle Lowry

You heard about it all the time. It was always sold out in here so I couldn't get tickets.

Jan Egeland

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

Kary Moss

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

Wilma Bennett

She had a big jolly laugh. If you were in a room with a lot of people and you heard her laugh it made you feel better. It was that kind of laugh.

Caren Scoropanos

Since then we have not heard of any overwhelming inconsistencies.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Dave Duncan

The way we've played the last three months hasn't been up to our capabilities, ... We have higher expectations with the players we have. We should be performing better.

James Purnell

There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.

Albert Camus

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself

D. James

If that swelling comes down and they can do some things with it and get itself worked out, then possibly he could come back. But if it doesn't, that's something he can't play with.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Gever Tulley

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Daryl Hannah

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Dan Kusnetzky

This type of movement is likely to see a lot of momentum. No one wants to be left out of a major trend like this.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Brendan Taman

We've never been in this situation before where there's a month left in the season and you're living on a mathematical wing and a prayer.

Ray Edwards

My grandmother works nights at Wal-Mart. I want to put a stop to that. That's why I left school early.

Charles Adams

If an S and an I and an O and a U - With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, - Pray what is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and a G - And an HED spell side, There's nothing much left for a speller to do, But to g

George Reyes

Most of what is left is just organic growth.

Rashad Anderson

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

Carmelo Anthony

You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.

Bob Hamley

You find out more about people when you lose than you do when you're winning. We're trying to find our identity.

Jay Hakkinen

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Luke Donald

I don't think you win or lose this tournament off the tee. I mean, it's all around the greens.

Ozzie Guillen

How can you be a choker or a loser when you've won 91 games?

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Aristotle

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Rumi

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

Edith Wharton

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Daphne Oz

Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Branford Marsalis

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Bono

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Bruce Beresford

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Clarice Lispector

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

Bret Michaels

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

Aristotle

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Dominic Monaghan

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

Robert Johnson

I sent somebody to take it down, which I think is the wrong thing to do. But I have to do it,

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Gary Morgan

It's very complicated what we're doing. We're just making sure what we sent out was accurate.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

George Muller

They that trust in the Lord shall never be confounded!

Eddie Rickenbacker

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.