Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

William Least Heat-Moon

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

William Davenant

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

W. Somerset Maugham

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Ryan Stiles

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Yani Tseng

I have a fearless but neutral personality.

Willie Sutton

You can't rob a bank on charm and personality,

William Peter Blatty

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

Robert Plant

I'm a grandfather now.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

Yuvraj Singh

We have started calling him grandfather.

Kellan Lutz

I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Novak Djokovic

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

Mike Birbiglia

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.