Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Graves

You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath / My writing arm.

Pedro Noguera

The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, ... Poverty is right beneath the surface.

Morris Gleitzman

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

Peter Frenzen

Mount St. Helens certainly reminds us of the power of nature, and we can certainly see that in the evidence of the 1980 eruption that's all around us, ... And here we just have an opportunity to see sort of another chapter in its history and to understand the forces that lie beneath our feet.

Rudyard Kipling

Of all the trees that grow so fair, / Old England to adorn, / Greater are none beneath the Sun, / Than Oak and Ash and Thorn.

Mary Roach

My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.

John Keble

We need not bid, for cloistered cell, / Our neighbour and our work farewell. / Nor strive to wind ourselves too high / For sinful man beneath the sky.

David Jackson

Most Americans think agricultural work is beneath them.

George Williams

I was getting a piece of plastic and there was a young cottonmouth beneath it,

Pierce Brown

Every high school I went to, I joined in the middle of the year, so sports helped. But you see a lot of bullies when you move to eight states, I'll say that.

Jerry Misik

The greatest opportunity to fix bullying or harassment would be with the bystanders. There are many more bystanders than there are bullies and victims.

Denham Brown

They were calling themselves, ?The New Bullies of the Big East.' It shows what we did to them tonight. We played a lot stronger than we did at Villanova and it turned out good.

Dan Forsman

It was an entry form to the dreaded Q School. ''That's how things are going.

Thomas Hardy

There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!

Tom Hodgkinson

Travelling fills me with dread.

Kyle Petty

Maybe this will put the dreaded Intrepid thing to rest. Maybe the Charger is the way we need to go.

Fred Funk

He was dreading every golf swing he had to take.

Ernie Els

I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.

Brad Lukowich

I was dreading it and he was excellent. It was like he was one of the guys, talking to him.

Sarah Silverman

Even when I'm dreading it, I want to talk about it - it only helps me.

Paul Valery

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

Michael Leunig

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

Larry Rothschild

That was a big part of it. With Jim Hendry, he's always been very fair with me. He's a great person to work for. He's going to get it done.

Adam Kennedy

Randy threw well tonight. We got some things going off of Johnson and when we did, we got some runs out of it. I hit a fastball in, and all I wanted to do was keep it fair and hit it hard.

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

Kathy Salvi

A record is fair game. He's called me a liberal Democrat. That's deadly.

James Mueller

Anything at all we're happy with. It's better than a step backwards, but in terms of being fair to facilities, there's a ways to go yet.

John Morton

These newspapers generally have by industry standards fairly fat news staffs, so generally the layoffs are not draconian,

Dave Nonis

The style of game they play is fairly open and they have some offensive weapons.

Lizz Harmon

The theme of the fair this year is All-American Fun, so we wanted to make it something that all Americans could afford.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

Darrell Royal

I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.

Michael Shaw

I've lived here all my life, and in some places we were, I couldn't recognize where I was,

Olivia Toca

The most important thing is returning to friendships and family. We moved a lot, and never lived near family. We always had to make new friends.

Henry Jordan

Seems like there was one, but it's been a long, long time ago, ... I'm 69 now and I've lived here since I was 5 and I just don't remember one.

Jeffrey Sachs

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

Mike Lookinland

The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're a child, because if you do it when you're 26, it can be dangerous.

Jan Jones

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

Proverb Proverb

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Gene Vincent

It was the sound that got to me,

Michelle Martin

You really feel like you are a part of 'The Sound of Music' when you are here.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Aesop

One story sounds good until another is told

Andy Summers

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Aneurin Bevan

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Simon Pegg

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Thomas Lynch

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Autre Ne Veut

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

William Reinsch

A year from now we're all going to be embarrassed by this.

Wade Taylor

A year ago I thought it was a done deal. I thought we weren't going to have a pool. I'm encouraged.

Trey Blue

I've always been able to score; this year I'm more of a playmaker who can score.

Ted Sim

The motels this year have been really accommodating for us.

Tim Franklin

The most important thing we've been this year is a symbol.

Matt Light

I've said that every year I've been here.

Kim Clijsters

It would make the year even more special,

David Richards

The way I went about it this year has been much better. The conversations we have had have been very good.

Tommy Tuberville

This is not going to be our most experienced year at quarterback,