Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night.

Tambra Flint

He's a gift from God. He's spared for a reason, and I'm really grateful.

Donald DeMayo

He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.

Ken Carter

We feel it's a gift from God, not just from Jack.

Lindy Ruff

I'll take 100 points, but the guys got me a gift and my parents said, 'When you get a gift you should wear it.

Bret Brielmaier

I'm not as physically gifted as some of the other guys. I can't jump like Hassan (Adams), but I try to play smart.

John Landis

The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with 'Black Or White' was crazy. Michael had gone mad.

Buddha

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Sheryl Crow

a great gift to give myself, to invest in my life, in all the things I wanted to do outside music.

Lynda Carter

I was also happy to see girls represented in this superhero thing all the way through,

Fannie Flagg

I wrote it in longhand as an 11-year-old girl and so all my misspelled words, they'll think I did it on purpose.

Jesper Parnevik

He could be the next Casanova superstar on tour. The girls love him. He's fresh, has a lot of charisma, and he's fun.

Jim Sheehan

This was a good win. I am really pleased the girls played as well as they did.

Javier Ramirez

What we worked on this summer was our vertical. I don't have great size. But these girls can get off the ground.

Julie Klausner

Here is how you meet women: You tell the girls you are friends with - the ones in relationships - that you want a girlfriend. You shouldn't even have to say 'Set me up' or 'Introduce me!' If they're good girls, they'll get the hint.

Dennis Ward

He said he just couldn't handle it anymore. It had been a real struggle with this little girl with the disabilities she had.

Sasha Cohen

I think it's hard for the girls here and everyone who's worked so hard to make the Olympic team.

Todd Borrison

I thought when their guards penetrated and got good shots, our big girls made the shots tough one them and that made the big difference.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Shane Victorino

He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Woody Allen

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

Sara Cox

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

Sara Shepard

Here you go, dear."" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?" Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem...loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks." Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Zora Neale Hurston

Africa has her mouth on Moses.

Zora Neale Hurston

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.

William H. Macy

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.

Joseph Addison

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Jose Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Jose Marti

Oh, what company good poets are!

Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jorge Luis Borges

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

Jonathan Swift

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

William Shakespeare

But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love.

Bob Edwards

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.