Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Natalie Clifford Barney

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Nora Roberts

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Edward Hoagland

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

Fletcher Knebel

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Mark Twain

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Napoleon Hill

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Burt Rutan

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries

Carson McCullers

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Jane Birkin

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

Jason Aldean

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.

Jason Aldean

I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

Arthur Balfour

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Andee Whitaker

I know that I will work hard and I will give it my all. I just hope to be a part of a good team. We will win some and of course we will lose some, but I hope we will have the dedication and drive.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm excited to be here. It's great to be back as a defending champion. I think the golf course is in as good shape as I've ever seen it. I think that makes it even more special. I think I'm as ready as I can be.

John Daly

I love this Open, I love Scotland and this is one of my favorite courses in the world,

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Mark Hensby

The greens were so firm Monday and Tuesday that I was dreading it, ... The fairways were a lot firmer then, so you hit shorter shots in. I hit 6-iron into 17 today. In the practice round, I hit a gap wedge. That's a big difference. The greens were softer, but the course played so much longer. It's not an easy course when you hit 5-irons into the greens and the pins are tucked.

Thomas Jefferson

A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases.

Danny Roberts

You could, in theory, get a hole-in-one off two banks. It's not terribly complex. I was less worried about the course than the scenery.

Eric Massa

You can't stand in front of people and say, 'We want your vote,' and not tell people what it is they're voting for. We all know that staying the course is not a strategy that's going to work.

Maeve Binchy

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

Jack Dempsey

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

Si Robertson

Christianity is why the 'Duck Dynasty' family is still together.

Henry Samueli

For me, it's just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team.

Alan Sugar

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Paule Marshall

You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.

Stanley A. McChrystal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Mason Cooley

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

Jay Wright

I don't think we understand how hard people are going to come at us. These guys have never gone through a season like this, ranked early, getting so much attention. Everyone else wants to make their name off you. You can't imagine how hard people come at you.

Elle King

My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah, my first name is Tanner. And King is my mom's last name. I took my mom's last name since I was 18.

Rich Lyons

Nelson played harder than we did. We've been playing this way for the past two or three weeks, we've practiced this way and played this way, and if we don't snap out of it we'll be one and gone next Tuesday.

Joe Paterno

One play here, one play there and it could have gone the other way. But we got it, and I'll take it.

Thomas Hood

One more Unfortunate, / Weary of breath, / Rashly importunate, / Gone to her death. Take her up tenderly, / Lift her with care; / Fashioned so slenderly, / Young, and so fair!

Alexis Kendrick

One more inch, less than an inch, and it would've gone in.

Jeffrey Sachs

Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round.

Jan Jones

He was young and naive. We lived in a different world in 1993.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

John Kraft

They were the first people that lived here in your town.

Sherwin B. Nuland

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

Lady Gaga

Off to the STUDIO in my new whip

Anna Chlumsky

I was an international studies major.

Sherilyn Fenn

I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.

George Oppen

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

G. H. Hardy

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

Rodney Mullen

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

Dee Brown

We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Anastasia Myskina

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

Rafael Nadal

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

Monica Seles

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Monica Seles

I'm about the present.

Jerry Lawler

I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.