Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damien Chazelle

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

Spencer Gardner

When Hooper got up we all breathed a sigh of relief.

Tom Eagleson

I think we all breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily for us, it was just stones.

Aaron Brown

He was that guy who lived and breathed it. He should have had another 10 years' worth of stories to tell.

William Channing

Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.

Joanne Sanabria

He gave me two minutes more with my son. He's an angel. He breathed life into him.

Matt Taibbi

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

Scott Maddox

I'm thinking, 'Is this gonna be the same old, same old?' because we need our 3-4-5 guys to hit. Then he hits that bomb. You could tell it breathed life in the whole team.

Florence Seidelman

I hoped the chemistry was going to be there. There were six leading actors, and I wanted them all to mesh. I didn't know how they were going to relate. But a lot of them came out of a certain Hollywood generation, so they all knew each other and it was like a reunion. When I felt that click, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Sara White

He just wanted to play football. He would have played for free. But luckily we had an agent.

Chris Villarrial

You get a little panicked at first. You think the worst sometimes. Luckily for me, it wasn't. It's treatable what I've got.

Marcello Lippi

Luckily we were able to win. It's so important to start off well.

Romulus Whitaker

Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes.

Alma Drunick

Luckily the police saw what was going on and stopped it.

Steve Box

Luckily nobody was harmed. The Oscar nomination has cheered everyone up.

Joe Kalb

Luckily I got a step and luckily it rattled down.

Donovan Nelson

Heber Springs was one of the better teams there, but luckily we matched up well with them.

David Ferrell

We don't like to slow it down. But luckily it went our way.

Richard Perle

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Rebecca West

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

William Jennings Bryan

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

Woodrow Wilson

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

William James

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Robin Green

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robert Schumann

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.