Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cullen Bryant

A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.

Philip Levine

It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.

Delmore Schwartz

I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful admirers.

Ogden Nash

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Maya Angelou

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

James Merrill

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

Sammy Sosa

Everyone knows that what happened to me is great, but at the other side I care about winning. I care about the team and the situation right now.

Bruce Latimer

Oil is down, silver is down, so we have to assume those stocks will be down. I think we'll be a little weaker out of the gate.

Jen Kirkman

Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they're smart. And people like me would just go buy candy.

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

Zach Hall

This program will be the most comprehensive and broadest program for stem cell research training in the country and I assume in the world,

Karen Joy Fowler

I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.

James dyer

We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do nothing and expect different outcomes.

Abby Cohen

We don't think so, and continue to assume long-term earnings growth of 7 percent-to-8 percent in our valuation model.

Tim Russert

Those who could not get out were the poor, who rely on public buses to get out! Your website says that your department assumes primary responsibility for a national disaster - if you knew a hurricane three storm was coming, why were buses, trains, planes ... provided on Friday, Saturday, Sunday to evacuate people before the storm?

Jeffrey Klarik

When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.

Johannes Stark

The spectra of atomic ions of higher valence are different from the spectra of atomic ions of the same element, but of lower valence.

Theodore William Richards

Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.

John Smith

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Niels Bohr

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

Michio Kaku

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

Martin Rees

If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and have seven tentacles, but they will be made of the same kinds of atoms as us. If they have eyes, they will gaze out on the same cosmos as we do. They will, like us, trace their origins back to a 'Big Bang' 13.8 billion years ago.

Michel Faber

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

Aaron D. O'Connell

We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.

Steven Hadley

There is an opportunity for Iran to do what the EU-3 and we, and I think most of the board of governors (of the International Atomic Energy Agency) hope they will do, which is come back into compliance, stop the conversion activity, and then to resume discussions and negotiations with the EU-3 about a more permanent arrangement.

Bible Bible

And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

Ricardo Alarcon

The boy belongs to his father, belongs to his family, and nobody should interfere with that,

Steve Robinson

I spent 34 days in this vehicle in my life. As much as a person can love a machine, I really love that bird. Look at this magnificent sight, back where it belongs with the people who take care of her. I want to thank the folks who lent us this orbiter. We took as good as care of it as we possibly could.

Jim Duquette

You're impressed with the way he acts. He looks like he's a kid that belongs here and knows he can play here. He's not brash about it. He's got the quiet confidence that you see in good, young players.

Tom Mann

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

Ted Woodward

I felt like since Christmas we've played very good offensively, shooting about 50 percent, and we've been focusing on getting our defense back to where it belongs and having Phil back tonight certainly helped give us good balance.

Gordon Miller

High school softball belongs on the high school campus. The senior high students are already here.

Trudy Pieper

We really need grassroots support to make this happen. The YMCA belongs to the community and is run by the community with a board of volunteers from the community.

John Gibbons

He belongs here. He's paid his dues. He deserves it.

Harold Mentzer

It belongs in Petaluma, as far as we're concerned.

Helio Castroneves

Once you do it, you have to keep it going. You have to understand, he (Stewart) is not the one who started that. When he's in the mood to do it, he might do it. I have fun with it, and obviously it would be a thrill to climb this fence here and celebrate with the fans.

Jane Gillette

The whole concept was to celebrate spring, not illustrate Washington.

Paula Abdul

You moved me. ... You celebrate what this competition is all about, and you are an American Idol.

Bob Kemp

We want to celebrate the immense positive contribution of volunteers in Henderson County.

Lord Mayor

We went on and celebrated and had a great, great party.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Kevin Walsh

She loved events. This is the kind of thing that would celebrate what Kathleen would do. She loved to go to softball games and tournaments. That was the main reason.

Deborah Moggach

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Steve Golden

I hated them. To think that they're celebrating their heritage, the first World Series they won, they have no right to do that. I know a lot of people feel the same way. They won the Series in '59. They can celebrate the '59 Series and everything since L.A., but they don't have to celebrate '55.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Colin Egglesfield

I've been struggling so long with my career that I haven't been in a position to invite a woman into my life. It would have been like, 'Hey, come live with me and my two roommates, and let's make ramen noodles tonight.'

Olin Browne

I'm thrilled to be here. I would like to play well enough to be invited back. And there's only one way to get back.

Bryan Greenberg

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

Gino Guyer

From here on out, we've just got to lean on each other and push each other and be there to support each other.

Teddy Dyess

I really think he's just about back at square one. I don't think he's leaning one way or another right now.

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

William Blake

Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.

Dolly Parton

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

George Muller

They that trust in the Lord shall never be confounded!

Eddie Rickenbacker

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

Archibald MacLeish

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

Barbara Kingsolver

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

Busy Philipps

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

Alan Lightman

I go live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.

Ajay Naidu

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

Jami Gertz

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

Bruce Dern

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.