Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Horowitz

I think aggressively touching the Moon is an understatement.

Rob Thurman

It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

Richelle Mead

The three cards were the Moon, the Empress, and the Ace of Cups. Ambrose leaned over my shoulder to peer at the cards. "Ooh,' he said. "Very interesting." Rhonda glanced up at him. "Hush. You don't know what you're talking about.

Richard Baker

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

Russell Baker

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

Ron Carlson

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

Virginia Woolf

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

Violante Placido

When I was really young, I got moonstruck by 'Moonstruck'

Woody Guthrie

I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.

Will Durant

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

Robert D. Kaplan

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

Richard Rodriguez

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

Samuel Johnson

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Wallace Stevens

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.

William Cowper

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

Robert Pattinson

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

Robert E. Howard

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

Saul Bellow

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Willi Glanznig

Groomed isn't really what you want because when you go to the World Championships, the snow is heavy.

Vittorio Feltri

He has never skied in his life. He doesn't even know what snow is. He only understands football.

William S. Burroughs

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

Wallace Stevens

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Warren Buffett

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Vincent Price

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

Sarah Jessica Parker

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

Roger Ebert

The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

William Stafford

It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow.