Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Danko

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Virginia Woolf

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

William Shatner

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William J. Clinton

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

Sarah Addison Allen

Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

William Ellery Channing

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

Scott Gibson

It hit me like a ton of bricks that I needed to be there, ... There are fascinating advancements occurring in the biotech and genomics fields. We'll have to learn what's going on or we'll be sitting on the sidelines and be left out of touch.

Joanne Kelly

I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

Mark Wilson

If the voters knew we were going to spend more money on bricks and mortar than we spend on the entire education system today ... these things don't look so rosy.

Eric Bogosian

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Mike Lonergan

I've got to watch the film. I'm still not sure what happened. It just hit me like a ton of bricks throwing the game away.

Karl Marx

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

P. G. Wodehouse

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

Gail Carriger

Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.

Bill Jr

Time marches on. We've got a wonderful new facility under construction and it's Busch Stadium - it's just different bricks and mortar.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Sarah Addison Allen

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

William Cowper

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

William Hazlitt

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

William Davis

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Yann Martel

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

Ronda Storms

I may not have dignity in your eyes, but at least I have my integrity.

Jose Saramago

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Kathy Reichs

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.