Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose McGowan

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

William S. Burroughs

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

Virginia Woolf

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

Will Durant

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

Vanessa Hudgens

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

Valerie Plame

Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb

Ken Wilber

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...

Keith Richards

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Bessie Smith

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Billy Sunday

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Edward Abbey

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

Dean Martin

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

James Joseph Sylvester

Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are so many high school students who are not interested in going to a four-year college to be a doctor or lawyer but who want to learn a trade,

Mitch Ashmore

God loves baseball. It's not a real big deal. The colleges and pros they all play on Sundays.

Elizabeth Davis

When I am finished college, I am moving to another state where tax dollars are well spent, ... In the meantime, I will be sure to vote for ..people who will recognize true problems in our state such as our poor education system and high property taxes, not how many more thousands of dollars they can pocket for nothing.

F. Stone

I thought the whole world was like Midland College in those 10 years, and when I left I found out the rest of the world wasn't like that at all.

Thad Schultz

I thought she could go in and be a fine college swimmer. Her future is right in front of her.

Tony Skinn

I think we've done something tremendous for college basketball. We showed that all you need is opportunity, a chance. Then you just go out there and play great basketball. I'm definitely happy I was a part of something special.

Ed O'Brien

It gives him a taste of the college level. I expect him to be a beast.

Peyton Manning

I think sometimes guys coming from college think if you lose one game you're out of the mix, but if you lose two or three or four in the NFL, you'll still be OK, ... It's not really that way anymore.

Marty Goldensohn

I think that it is wonderful that Swarthmore as a college gets all this exposure. It is something that they can be completely and totally proud of, because all of the students are using all that they learn here to do this.