Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Trilby Lundberg

The gasoline price has broken records repeatedly in 2005, but until September 9 it did not exceed the true all-time high.

Will Rogers

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

Gilbert Arenas

We fought hard. It came down to another night with a call at the end of the game that broke our back. At the end, we went to a zone and Gary hit that three. He hit it and got the game within reach. From then on they got to the free throw line and got some easy baskets.

Bob Eason

We had a lot of good talent. Overall, of our 11 offensive starters, I think seven got full rides.

John Torchetti

I think I have to get them better prepared for the next game. I'm the coach, I'll take full responsibility.

P. J. Harvey

It'd be a good first full season for me.

Susan Gordon

We haven't seen the full peak of the storm. It may be later in the day around 4 or it could be that the peak will be less intense than we thought.

Mike Riley

You can go full speed with tackling for this long, but if you do everything but tackle, you can go this many more reps. And that's what we are looking for.

Gabriel Jafet

You just take one peek at what's going on in overseas markets and you'll feel like selling here. The market is full of sellers.

E. O. Wilson

We were never able to get that full momentum back and actually get ahead. They were able to get up on us and every time we tied it up they were able to turn it up a notch and we didn't match it.

Rob Honzo

We were missing a lot of the varsity. If we had our full lineup, I think we would have walked away with a win.

Mark French

We were able to come back, but not the full distance.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Lea Michele

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

John Henry Newman

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

John Dewey

It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Garry Trudeau

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Francois Mauriac

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

George Crabbe

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing, Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring; But Man alone has skill and power to send The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend; 'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

George Crabbe

When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast, Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost; The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return; From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

Debby Ryan

One of the things I love about summer is that you can wear a bikini top and put something over it and it kind of just always looks a little beach-ready, which I think is very fun.

Angie Martinez

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

James Russell Lowell

Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

Kwame Brown

This is my first summer [with] no trouble. I ain't go to jail for speeding. Didn't go to jail for DUI. I didn't break my foot. I didn't break my other foot. I'm one step ahead of the game already.

Marcus Aurelius

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

Marc Racicot

Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer's catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn't cause these fires, but their policies have left the Forest Service under-funded and under-prepared for this crisis. I don't think it's a conspiracy, but it's a philosophy they have that leads to explosive fires that destroy everything.

Sidney Altman

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.