Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Henson

We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.

Bill Doyle

The memorial itself has been an afterthought. It's astounding to me that the only thing they have up there after four years are a couple of posters.

Vint Cerf

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

Yale Hirsch

We've always had periods when something came in vogue, ... This is different because of the Internet. It keeps on going and the riches just keep astounding everybody. All the traders that come up today naturally gravitate toward Internet stocks.

Grant M. Bright

You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

Lori Cooper

There are new technologies currently under development that are astounding there is always room for this category to grow. One of the big challenges when you deal with proprietary performance fabrics is to ensure that the costs involved with developing and producing the fabrics does not make the garments cost prohibitive to the consumer at the end of the day. We are careful to be sensitive to that for the benefit of our customer and we also understand which benefits our customer values as well.

James Horner

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

Brian Greene

As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic.

Simon Callow

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Philip Goodhart

There were some pretty bleak moments, ... I'd never edited anything before, and there were times when I thought that we hadn't been able to make it work.

Tom Kontos

It was already pretty bleak for those vehicles for several months in a row,

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

Andrew Hopman

We have never given up, no matter how bleak things looked. These guys are fighters; they could be losing 24-2, and they'd still never quit.

Mark E. Smith

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

Craig Young

With this bleak outlook and this share price, it's going to be extremely difficult for the government to sell. Telstra would obviously like less regulation, but that's something which is out of its hands.

Willie Randolph

No matter how bleak things look, in this clubhouse we're going to stay positive and keep playing. Things can change around.

Tarja Halonen

Bleak natural conditions in the cold North have certainly helped teach us to work hard in order to survive and to take care of each other.

Howard Schnellenberger

This win came at a very opportunistic time. It looked very bleak for us in the first eight minutes of the game, but thank goodness we have some resilient players.

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Russell Baker

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Robert Shaw

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

Warren Buffett

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

W. S. Merwin

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

W. H. Auden

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

W. H. Auden

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse

Tommy Thompson

We want to be uplifting, ... We want to be visionary and progressive.