Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Garbarek

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

Pat Conroy

...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.

Christopher Hitchens

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

Elizabeth Smart

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

Saadi

It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

Bill Vaughan

The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

William Shakespeare

Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

Neville Crichton

I won't be surprised if we are not out of each other's sight the whole way.

Dave Barry

What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.

Bryan Stevenson

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

Cesare Pavese

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

Charlotte Bronte

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

Charles de Lint

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight...

Charles de Lint

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Cecil Beaton

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

Patrick Kavanagh

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

Steven Blum

We were going to fight an enemy that was a symmetric threat, and they looked a lot like us -- the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

Nahum Barnea

Voters love these kind of operations in which the enemy is humiliated and our forces return safely to base.

Hebrew Proverb

Who is mighty? One who makes an enemy into a friend

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

will not let its historic enemy live in its heartland.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your enemy's enemy is your friend

William Shakespeare

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

Duo Maxwell

I hate to say this, but you don't have the skill to be my enemy