Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Herb Brodarick

In the 18 years I've been down here, I've worked with many a good person who's gotten discouraged when they run into dead ends or are told no. That doesn't necessarily stop him. He doesn't give up.

Robby Ginepri

I'm just dead right now. I don't know how I got through it,

Lawrence Lindsey

Inflation may be dying but it's hardly dead and buried. The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. and that's what's going to keep the Fed on hold.

Kari Koch

In high school, I used to joke with my family that I wished there wasn't a bench. Even when I'm dead tired I hate to come out of the game. You just focus your mind not to think about getting tired.

Isabella Rossellini

I like her mixture of morbid frankness and girlish playfulness. It's why we get along. It's not yin and yang. It's yin and yin somehow. She has, as I do, an ongoing dialogue and relationship with all the important dead people.

Jerry Kelly

I left three (putts) dead in the jar, 2 inches short.

Ben Wallace

I loved what that place stood for. You didn't walk into that place unless you were dead serious about working out.

Rich Thompson

The funny thing is, it's not about the answer, it's how you react. All the interviewer is trying to do is derail you. If you throw a question like that and they shut down, that's probably not the person you want on your floor at deadline time.

Sirus Nasseri

I think that would be a grave miscalculation by the U.S., and particularly by Europe,

Donald Davis

Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.

Mark Haddon

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

Sydney Smith

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave

John Felmy

I've got grave concerns, ... I thought we had learned this lesson 25 years ago.

Rene Desjardins

It was a grave disappointment. Now, we're where we were last year.

Julie Garwood

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.

Houssaye Houssaye

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

George Parnham

A woman with this notoriety, with this type of offense charged, would be at risk ... I have grave, grave concerns.

Leonardo DiCaprio

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind..

Maggie Stiefvater

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Diane Ackerman

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

Drew Holcomb

There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.

Alex Flinn

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

Alexander McQueen

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

Alexander Pope

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

Robert C. Solomon

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Andre Holland

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.

Henry Rollins

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Larry Graham

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

Ludwig van Beethoven

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

Neville Marriner

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

John Green

That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

John Green

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.