Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Plater

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

Shari Arison

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

Edward Hirsch

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Margaret O'Brien

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Robert Owens

We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on humanity a boon so vast.

Jack Gleeson

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

John Wilmot

Ancient person, for whom I All the flattering youth defy, Long be it ere thou grow old, Aching, shaking, crazy, cold; But still continue as thou art, Ancient person of my heart.

Gladys Knight

Ancient, ancient times, ... And here I am, still busier than ever.

William Cullen Bryant

The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the valesStretching in pensive quietness between;The venerable woods -- rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining brooksThat make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --Are but the solemn decorations allOf the great tomb of man.

Sukhjinder Singh

He (didn't) really even have one gray hair in his head. I look older than him.

Marcia Carroll

I don't know why he wanted it black. I thought the gray would not be depressing.

Anna Lee

I'll be an old woman with gray hair.

Dave Grosshuesch

That is the highest number of great gray owls ever banded in a single season in the world.

Jerry Garcia

Oh well a touch of gray kind of suits you anyway.

Muhammad Ali

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

German Gref

The size of the gray market should be reduced at least down to 15% by the end of this year.

John Stack

That's why we get prematurely gray and have gastrointestinal problems. There have been a lot of big, glitzy stories, but if you play the odds, maybe the rest of year is quiet.

Marge Gibson

You should start seeing little heads at about three weeks, little gray heads and then they turn white. You'll probably hear them before you'll see them, because they're very squawky.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Frank Baumholtz

Kaiser has played pretty well this year; they have great potential.

James L. Petigru

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

Emile M. Cioran

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

Emile M. Cioran

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Thomas Willis

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

Soren Kierkegaard

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

Ring Lardner

He give her a look that you could of poured on a waffle

Steve Elkington

It was a romp from the start. We poured it on and poured it on.

Marcia Gay Harden

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

William Blake

Dip him in the river who loves water.

W. H. Auden

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Robert MacNeil

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Norman MacCaig

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

Emile Hirsch

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

Libby Smith

I'll try to think of it as just another tournament; just think of it as the first round of about 120.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Justin Bartha

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Graeme McDowell

I've been waiting for this round for a while.

Rich Miller

This is really like our first round of the playoffs.

Steven Gerrard

This season will be his season. His all round game's a lot better and there's a lot more to come from him.

Mike Grandinetti

We are trying to round out partnerships with strategic vendors.

Michael Woodward

We feel like we won round one because what they did was illegal.

Bill Owens

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

William Shatner

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect

Will Rogers

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Rudyard Kipling

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Ciara

I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

Ken Wilber

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...

Keith Richards

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.

Karl Lagerfeld

I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Richard Pryor

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

Walt Whitman

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

Roger Ebert

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

Helmut Jahn

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

James Russell Lowell

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Emilio Pucci

We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.

Rachel McAdams

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Keegan Bradley

I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.

Peter S. Beagle

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.