Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Johnson

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

Denis McDonough

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Jeffrey Thomas

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'

J. M. Roberts

I've always thought it would be so fun to have brothers and sisters to fight with,

Abu Sabaya

The Muslims are our brothers . . . I am not saying we have no contact with them.

Drew Goddard

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

William Empson

So your flesh shall be part of mine And part of mine be yours. Brother and sister we shall be Whose unity endures. Always the sister doll will cry, Made in these careful ways, Cry on and on, Come back to me, Come back, in a few days.

Bob Carnes

I've been lucky these days to have my brother Skip come up and run the company while I do the hard part, which is the fishing.

Brown Johnson

I used to run around singing my life to myself. I'd be singing 'I'm going to fall down,' singing about what I was having for lunch, about how mean my brothers were.

Harriet Stowe

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

Bible Bible

Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, / That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: / And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Ian Lowe

Oil and gas are limited resources, ... Wasteful use of these fuels and the burning of coal are the main causes of global warming.

Jerry Beasley

Coal keeps the lights on!' And this year it will also keep the lamp of learning burning for the beneficiaries of Concord's scholarship program.

Denise Layne

Any leader who does not do this will totally burn out, and once they've burned out, you can't get them back. A smart leader's one who knows when to take a deep breath.

John Byers

Are the people who are getting tax credits still burning their fields? ... There's nothing in statute that says they couldn't.

Roland Mesnier

The Secret Service came to me and thought I was burning the White House.

Rusty Smith

The smell of burning rubber is always great in the air.

Russ Feingold

The Supreme Court's decision to review the Vermont and Wisconsin cases means that the issue of campaign finance reform will be on the front burner for the court in the months ahead,

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.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Jane Austen

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply...

Anton Chekhov

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

Ann Brashares

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

Alfred Nobel

To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

Douglas Adams

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

Dorothy Hamill

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

Christy Turlington

Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.

Alvin Lee

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

Kenneth Lay

I did everything I could humanly do during this time. Did I make mistakes? I'm sure I did.

Benjamin Franklin

He that waits upon a fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Alvin Williams

He's a professional, he's been in tough situations. I'm sure this is just something he'll work through.

Jeff Greenfield

Gee, I'm not sure I really like this.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Roger Allen

Before you let yourself go, be sure you can get yourself back.

Ray Emery

I don't really read that stuff, but I'm sure he's probably trying to get in my head.