Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Simone Weil

Distance is the soul of beauty.

Simone Weil

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

Simon Sinek

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

Simon Newcomb

The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Sam Snead

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Thomas Mallon

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Victoria Moran

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Branch Rickey

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Bob Dole

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

Brenda Laurel

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

Billy Boyd

I think Scotland has some great stories.

Lori Nelson

There will be another sky, my love, just you wait

Lord Byron

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

Malala Yousafzai

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

Maggie Stiefvater

Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?" "They do." "And why do you?" "The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr.

Haruki Murakami

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

Joe Walsh

Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.

James Patterson

We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will die From great fire in the sky. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go." (Total) Call me old fashioned but I'll take 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' any day.