Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baha'u'llah

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

Barbara Stanwyck

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Barbara Mikulski

Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.

Augustus

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

Augusten Burroughs

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

Augusten Burroughs

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

Brian Andreas

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

Carol Alt

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

Alan Keyes

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

Charles Godfrey Leland

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

Greg Drescher

You often hear about ingredients being found, whether it is corn or ancient grains, but it is not too often that you hear about something as complex as noodles.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Bible Bible

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

James Marsters

Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.

Al Goldman

Earnings are ancient history. The first quarter is under our belt. The market is now looking to the fourth quarter and ahead.

Raymond Moody

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

Rick Riordan

Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

Barry Unsworth

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

Brandon Sanderson

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

Douglas Coupland

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Donald Trump

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

Sam Ewing

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

Jack Vance

I'd never been published when I was young.

Erin Hunter

Now Darkstripe,' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty.

George W. Bush

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

George R. R. Martin

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.

Garth Brooks

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.