Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Verne

He rose at thirteen minutes to one, and directed his steps towards the large hall, a sumptuous apartment adorned with lavishly-framed paintings. A flunkey handed him an uncut Times, which he proceeded to cut with a skill which betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation.

Gordon Strachan

His presence will always be here, ... But I don't think he would like to be known as a figure that weighs heavily on everybody else. I think he'd like to say 'well, I've done my bit, you get on with your bit now'. The place is adorned with his pictures, which is quite right. But I've been to some clubs where it (the memory of a former great) can be a noose round your neck. It's not such a big problem here. He's well loved rather than worshipped. I think loving something is better than worshipping something. With worship you're kind of pushed into it. It can be a scary thing. It can be indoctrinated into people to worship a particular god. Love is a different. That has to gradually come on. You can't push anybody into loving anybody, but they all loved Jock.

Granth Sahib

He Himself created and adorned the Universe, and He Himself contemplates it. Some are counterfeit, and some are genuine. He Himself is the Appraiser.

Alan Huffman

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

Guru Nanak

That soul bride who is adorned with Truth is imbued with her Lord s Love, in peace and poise.

Bible Bible

And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, / As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Plautus

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Truman Capote

Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian tones an enameled song that coolly celebrates her chewing-gum enthusiasms.

Sam Houston

Now my venerated friend, you will perceive that Texas is presented to the union as a bride adorned for her espousal. But, if, now so confident of the union, she should be rejected, her mortification would be indescribable. She has sought the United S

Susan Brown

Just the other day I was talking to the mother of a bride I married some time ago and she told me her daughter still has her toilet rolls,

Bob Carr

He can ship his mail-order bride back to where she came from, for all I care.

Anonymous Toast

Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men!

Unknown

Here's to the groom with bride so fair, And here's to the bride with groom so rare!

Oscar Wilde

I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Amy Ray

We met the bride and groom and the family, and took some pictures. It was a lot of fun to be a part of the celebration.

Mark Williams

Really it's something the bride can sit down and cry to, ... Weddings are emotional, and I want to capture that emotion.

Valerie Hudson

In world history, there has never been a bride shortage as large as is about to hit China.

Robert Englund

I just think the funny response would be that I think there needs to be a Bride of Freddy. I think Freddy needs a woman in his life.

Alfredo Stroessner

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

Martin McGuinness

I was always confident during the course of this week that Mr. Trimble would win the day.

Ernie Chatman

Jacki knows about running talent. I've known her for years, and I am confident in the training Danielle will get under her.

Gary Enis

Just like everybody else, we want them to throw strikes and let the defense make plays. They've all been working hard on location and hitting their spots, and we feel confident no matter who's on the mound.

Megan Roark

I always feel more confident when my team goes out and scores runs like today. They were on fire today, so it was easy to pitch.

Daniel Woodrell

As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.

Kelly Parisi

What we found was that girls are strong, determined and confident until they hit adolescence, then, things start to change, and they lose some of that confidence.

Andy Murray

He obviously didn't serve as well as he can. I don't know if that was because I was returning very well or if he just wasn't feeling as confident as he normally was.

Craig Thomas

He represents the kind of justice who will interpret the law with respect to the Constitution and not legislate from the bench. His judicial experience is second to none, and I'm confident he will do an excellent job handling his constitutional responsibility.

Scott McCallum

I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media.

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Jodi Picoult

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Paul Arden

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

Ricky Boren

It's a perception issue, ... It's the way the public perceives our investigation of our own officers.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Jeffrey Gitomer

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Layne Higgs

Their match-up zone presented a lot of problems for us tonight. The zone took away Garrett's penetration.

Bob White

That's our frustration - the way it's presented to the community.

Charlie Rose

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Robert Webb

The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.

Michael Levine

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Robert Duvall

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Wil Wheaton

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

William H. Wharton

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

Henry Rollins

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

Jon Meacham

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

Pierre Salinger

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

Molly Ivins

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Richard Rogers

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

Jose Manuel Barroso

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

Gary Dellaverson

The union is still here, we're still here.

Nikki Haley

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

Nikki Haley

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

Joseph Stalin

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Meher Baba

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.