Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

Paul Parker

Some will say that tele has lost its soul with the new gear. My feeling is that if people don't want to use the big stuff, they don't have to.

Charles Reade

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Gordon Banks

At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.

Rachel Ward

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Paul Murphy

English is a language from the head and brain, Irish comes from the heart.

Gene Constantino

English fought right to the end like they've done all season.

Steve Johnson

This isn't a 'doping positive'. This is just a publication in a French tabloid newspaper. That's our perspective.

Eddie Izzard

ello, Sue. I've got legs. Do you like bread? I've got a French loaf. Bye! I love you

Ken Lee

You get French fries that are really just warm potatoes.

Li Keqiang

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.

Marcel Carne

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

Pierre Dubois

Many immigrants are doing the work the French don?t want, ... They are more likely to take on short-term contracts.

Megan Hilty

I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty!

Guillaume Apollinaire

French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I don't think I was at the level I was at the French Open or the other times I played her, but Mary played well,

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Tim Cox

The students have been great and have worked very hard,

Tony Nunan

The situation is unclear because output is still down in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. refineries are having problems.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

Scott McKenzie

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

Bob Streeten

I was pleased to see us overcome a lackluster first quarter. I don't think we hardly got off a shot in the first.

Raymond Domenech

We hardly played during the first. We only looked at them playing,

Tom Rowe

I think it's too much of a major league market. Nobody thinks minor league sports. They're hardly on the radar.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

Robert Gibson

That means I've got to keep the peeler going, ... There's hardly no place to move around.

Jan Egeland

They had hardly any roads at all and now they are gone.

Nigel Farage

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

Sonu Nigam

If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Alexander Pope

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Christopher Morley

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

David Hare

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Michel de Montaigne

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

Jim Butcher

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

Saul Alinsky

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Dean Heller

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Cecelia Ahern

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Tori Amos

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Ernest Hemingway

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.