Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.

Gigi Hadid

People can see a picture of my body from the neck down and know who it is because of my beauty marks or whatever you call them, moles. I've always had them, and I've always loved them. Obviously you have to be careful with that; I get them checked regularly and make sure that they're healthy.

Angelina Jolie

I usually try to look for something I haven't done before, a side of me that I haven't completely explored. There's a truth in acting, and there is a very real part of me that can understand that or can believe in that or can see the beauty of that or see the ugliness in that and the statement that needs to be made. So it's all kind of me.

E. F. Benson

There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.

Kourtney Kardashian

I am the worst at doing my hair. I have no clue how to do it; I just feel like I need to go to hair beauty school or something because it's really becoming a problem.

Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Jamie Zawinski

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

Jason Alexander

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Arthur C. Clarke

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Michael Terpstra

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Tokio Furuta

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

Jim Kliesch

Any category that you're interested in, you can buy green.

Michael Birch

Any company that goes through an integration, buying a new business, there are always risks. So as soon as we see that bedded down, a lot more comfortable we'll be. We still think that mining services, companies related to resources, will do really well next year.

Kurt Barnard

Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it.

Diana Yates

The strong are getting stronger. There are more opportunities to buy at a cheaper price.

Terry Mackin

Advertisers can't buy enough video in today's market.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

James Graham

The show is going on 100% Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

Carol Olson

The Swiss Tropical Institute will be responsible for selecting patients and carefully monitoring the trials,

Janet Reno

The most important thing in any investigation, particularly at this time of year, is that we just do it right -- methodically, carefully and without commenting on it,

Suzanne Fields

Style has rarely been either a characteristic or a qualification for secretaries of state. Henry Kissinger had his square, dark-rimmed glasses, and Madeleine Albright her funky hats, but these were carefully contrived affectations.

W. Clement Stone

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Max Mosley

It would be very difficult to enlarge the facilities and we would also have to look carefully at the safety issue. The number is unlikely to increase.

Tom Peters

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

J. August Richards

Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'

Arnaldo Otegi

We did not choose violence, but there is no other path.

Jon Katz

Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

David McWilliams

When there were unlimited scholarships, we were able to pick and choose and take more of the elite guys. Now it's not the numbers, it's who. Not all of those top guys were going to come to Texas.

Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man

Chuck Hagel

No one knows what the country -- or the party -- will be looking for when we get ready to choose a new president.

Ricky Williams

I have neighbors, I have friends, and now I have to pick up and go. It's the off-season. I don't have to be here right now but I choose to. It's going to be hard to have to transplant somewhere else.

Damione Lewis

I would love to come back if they want me back. But if they choose to go in another direction, I understand that, too. After all, it is business.

Burt Flickinger

When it comes to their eating habits, consumers will continue to choose the proverbial sin over salvation -- or fat and sugar -- over the lack of it.

Diana Vreeland

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Diana Vreeland

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Daniel Clowes

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Tom Ford

I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Well, I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I’m sure it would break down less than a millimeter from me and just ruin my clothes…Probably break my watch, too. (Taryn)

Norma McCorvey

But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes,

Megan Fox

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

John Oates

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.

Chris Benz

I feel like everyone should dye their hair a weird color. If you hate it, you can just dye it back.

Jeff Davis

They wanted to tie dye shirts out there before they ate. A little something special because it's Turpin.

Lorelei Linklater

I liked to dye my hair as a teenager. I dyed it a lot of different colours: blue, red, pink.

Elsa Peretti

I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.

Pauline Trigere

I'm past 75, I still walk, and I don't dye my hair blond, and I don't touch it up.

Lewis Carroll

But I was thinking of a plan to dye one's whiskers green.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Chris Cornell

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Kevin Reilly

Put a show in its time period, leave it in its time period, start it on time.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Kevin Towers

The way I look at it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to leave (the offer) out there for other teams to beat.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

To walk out on a marriage and leave a child was painful.

Stuart Desjarlait

There's still a lot of sadness. This is going to take years to get over. A lot of the students, I think they have to graduate, leave the building, get away from that.

Roderick Middleton

We tell them to leave all that at the door.

Kay Yow

Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

David Rossi

At this point in the semester our students would have already been suspended outside of school 700 days.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Jackie Kennedy

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

John Reynolds

He's outside the country, and we'll make him stop right away.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Rebecca Stead

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Marianne Williamson

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Maria Sharapova

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Paul Kuschel

I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all.

Michael Sheen

I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either.

Mallory Jansen

Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

Don Cherry

I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Harry Graf Kessler

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Ani Difranco

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right