Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Oscar Wilde

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Michael Rooker

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

James Allen

Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community.

Curtis Preston

Security is a frustrating business. And the hardest thing to do is stop an internal black hat. The risk can't ever totally be eliminated -- it can only be minimized.

Alphonso Jackson

New Orleans is not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again.

Shawn Harrison

I don't want the money to disappear down the black hole of city government. Put it (the money) in New Tampa where it was intended to be used.

E. O. Wilson

For us, to have her here for Black History Month, is just a real coup.

Tom Fuller

silver screen theme. It's black and white formal with lipstick red to pull it all together.

Susan Sontag

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Chanakya

There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.

John Roehrig

There's always a tendency to get comfortable with the fact that this disease is out there, especially if you live in a place where you've had West Nile for four or five years and never been infected.

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

Larry Harrison

I think sometimes we rely too much on Kenny alone. We play a much better game when we play a full game, relying on our shooting and contesting other teams shots.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

That's back when I had a full head of hair.

Lonnie Johnson

I wasn't surprised. I knew they were full of speed and had great athletes.

Chris Burke

I wasn't sore today, so I'll give it a shot, ... I have a full range of motion.

Jeff Lee

We need to put a full game together. Today, we weren't there in the first half and that hurt us.

Jack Evans

We need to provide a guarantee in this legislation that the funding will be there for the full modernization of our public schools.

Stephen Perry

We just want to make sure that everything is right as people come back, ... You want them to have the full New Orleans experience.

Rene Portland

We have our hands full on Sunday. We just have to get our spirits back and we have to learn how to fight. We don't fight. With the three teams that have pressured us, we did not fight. We've got to learn to handle the pressure and we can't make mistakes.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

George Smith

I tell our players a lot about some of those guys. I don't know if they realize the tradition. Maybe if they see it in the paper, it will mean a lot more to them.

Gary Kurokawa

I thought maybe we would have more than what we're actually receiving.

Andy Roddick

I thought I played maybe better in the second and third sets than I did in the first set,

Mark Wilson

I thought it would be a lot more obtrusive than it was. I think maybe the next time it happens, that uncertainty will be gone.

Brian Barnhart

We can't get rid of them on the two-day (race weekends), but maybe we can at the three-day shows.

Paul Costa

He and I have been trying to work with the governor's office to work out an arrangement -- maybe a zero-interest loan,

Steve Jones

If I was 20, maybe I'd be upset (about being inducted), but it's all part of the game.

James Stewart

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Greg Edwards

Every 100 miles you go, you've got a new arena, ... Everybody's got one.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

Pico Iyer

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

Phillip Phillips

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Hilary Mantel

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

Hilaire Belloc

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Henry James

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

Gustave Flaubert

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

John Dryden

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.