Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Hannah

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

Pankaj Mishra

The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

David Simon

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

Albert Camus

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Frodo: Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone. Sam: Of course you are, and I’m coming with you!

Jason Bay

There are still a lot of things that need to be worked out, ... but it's flattering to have that offer.

Jerry Miller

I think we were a little flat today,

Don Williams

I think what it's saying is that '04 was an outstanding year, which leaves us flat with '05.

Jeff Hironaka

We looked flat at times and I thought pressure on us forced us into some hasty decisions. And they capitalized.

William Blake

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer

Rep. Caruso

He flatters me, I'll tell you. It's as if the neighbors don't have problems with his proposal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

W. S. Gilbert

Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?

William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Carrie Cunningham

He said he would get a letter out to students seven weeks ago and we have not received it yet.

Abdel Atwan

I think the letter is genuine. We can't verify it because we don't know where he is, he is on the run. I have seen his signature before and it looks like it. I think it is authentic.

Chuck Wright

I think whoever wrote the letter is trying to do the right thing, and I'm thankful,

Cynthia Jeanguenat

I have done those for people who have received those letters and they find out they have a refund.

Greg Strobel

I am going to miss each one of them for special reasons. Zinck, for his maturity and the forwardness in the way he practices; Coop in terms of the way he wrestles, he's just phenomenal in the practice room; Letters with his talent; and Frick with his hard-nosed attitude.

Joanne Cortese

He'd write letters to people he'd feel should be donors.

Virginia Woolf

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Virginia Woolf

I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

Salman Rushdie

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Gordon Jago

Then, when some of these other high-quality teams saw that Real and Manchester United were coming, they all wanted to be involved, too.

Alex Ferguson

All they can talk about is Manchester United.

Roy Keane

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.

Sven Eriksson

From what I have read and heard, it could be that Owen is going to Manchester United.

Brian O'Driscoll

Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Warren Buffett

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

Walter Lippmann

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

incorrect, wrong, shameful. ... I am now offering my sincere apologies.

Jacque Fresco

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

Henry A. Kissinger

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Johannes Tauler

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Norman MacCaig

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

David Cross

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

Hillary Clinton

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.