Famous Quotes & Sayings

Petter Solberg

When it's been wet and raining and muddy, it has been our rally.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.

Terry Pratchett

Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.

Terry Pratchett

The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?

Teju Cole

I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.

Shunryu Suzuki

If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere.

Justin Gatlin

I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.

Linda Fiorentino

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

Lil Wayne

I’m the only fire that can live in the rain

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Annie Lennox

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.

Rita Mae Brown

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

Rene Redzepi

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

Samuel Adams

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

T. S. Eliot

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

Rick Riordan

They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.

Rick Riordan

I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

Tinie Tempah

I can wear a suit, sweatpants, a long tee shirt, and a denim jacket all at the same time.

Brian Boyle

I wish I could give you an answer.

Patrick Turner

I wish I could get that one back.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

I wish he could still be here, ... but, unfortunately, that wasn't the case.

Elliot Mintz

She doesn't wish to have anything to do with this man.

Ozzie Guillen

I feel embarrassed, I feel guilty. I wish I had not said it the way it sounds.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Jean Kerr

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

James Buchan

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

James A. Baldwin

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.