Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

Salman Rushdie

If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.

John Gresham Machen

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

Patti Smith

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

Lake Bell

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

P. J. O'Rourke

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

Sean Paul

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt

Maria Mitchell

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Ellen Hopkins

I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.

Rich Beem

The thing is a rocket. It's a silver bullet.

Fred Upton

We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires,

Rick Pitino

This is the most disappointing preseason I've experienced in a long time. We'll look for the silver lining, and when I can find it, I'll let everyone know.

Michael Guido

There's a lot of inflow into silver in anticipation of the ETF.

Teemu Selanne

The silver medal, it's going to taste better a little later. But right now, it's very disappointing.

Ben Horowitz

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Alicia Keys

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Jerry Garcia

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

J. K. Rowling

There's the silver lining I'm looking for.

Richelle Mead

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Tullian Tchividjian

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

Robert Rodriguez

The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.

Rod Stewart

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Zayn Malik

I just wanted somebody to tell me that I could sing.

William Least Heat-Moon

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Rick Springfield

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

We wanted the best, but it turned out as always

Sam Walton

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.