Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolus Linnaeus

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them

Blaise Pascal

Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

Robert Frost

The sidelong glance is what you depend on.

Jean Cocteau

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

W. G. Sebald

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

Ellen Burstyn

So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Kevin Flanagan

In San Diego, we don't try quite as hard.

Dina Emde

I really wanted the record to be quite honest.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Woody Allen

Subjectivity is objective.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

J. J. Johnson

I just find the whole subject so exciting, it really is my passion.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.