Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Stengel

I would say that most of the people who vote here are under fifteen, so Kennedy for them is ancient history. Yet somehow he has a powerful image for people, as he does for you.

William Wordsworth

. . . I would stand,If the night blackened with a coming storm,Beneath some rock, listening to notes that areThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,Or make their dim abode in distant winds.Thence did I drink the visionary power;And deem not profitless those fleeting moodsOf shadowy exultation: not for this,That they are kindred to our purer mindAnd intellectual life; but that the soul,Remembering how she felt, but what she feltRemembering not, retains an obscure senseOf possible sublimity. . . .

William Wordsworth

. . . I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds. Thence did I drink the visionary power; And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation: not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind And intellectual life; but that the soul, Remembering how she felt, but what she felt Remembering not, retains an obscure sense Of possible sublimity. . . .

Jim Carter

I think I tend to try to let a woman walk through a door first, and I walk on the outside on the street. But that's probably because I'm an ancient creature.

Walter Mare

He is the Ancient Tapster of this Hostel, / To him at length even we all keys must resign.

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.

Graham Hancock

Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.

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.

Ali Hussein

It is God's will. Since ancient times it has been this way. It is our fate.

Kellan Lutz

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

Derrick Mason

I was jaw-jacking with him a little bit, but it was fun, ... I was like, 'Keep coming, rook, because we are going to keep coming at you.' He's only going to get better the more he plays.

Erick Siqueira

I was lost; I could not understand a word that was coming out of that lady's mouth. So I kept on saying huh, what, when all the sudden she raised her voice and started to yell at me as if I was mentally retarded or something.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Roy Blunt

Knowing what is going to happen next year is going to be helpful in coming to a conclusion this year,

Shemar Moore

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

Buck Showalter

Knowing Kam, I don't think there will be anything. He's still mad about coming out of the game.

Jason Bohn

K.J. got off to the kind of start that everybody wanted. After that, I was just firing at a lot of pins coming in, and that led to some bogeys. But I was trying to win.

Jason Bohn

K.J. got off to the kind of start that everybody wanted, ... After that, I was just firing at a lot of pins coming in, and that led to some bogeys. But I was trying to win.

Tom Ridge

These are pieces of information that we could trace comfortably to sources we deem to be credible.

Kevin Duffy

just to make sure that you never make a dime out of this.

Jon Goodman

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. People who can implement those ideas are as scarce as hen's teeth,

Mike Tkach

It hurt us. It takes a dimension out of our offense.

Vic Reeves

I think you must be pretty dim not to know that everything you do will be filmed.

George Clooney

I don't know that I will make a dime on any of this. I could lose my shirt, ... But it will be a big adventure.

Kathy Walt

I don't know of a single teacher in Texas who wouldn't welcome the possibility of getting a raise of $10,000, and if the head of a labor union wants to demean and diminish the hard work and the value of teachers, then he or she should be ashamed.

Jon Gruden

He will give us a dimension that we need here,

Jeff Olson

He (Schinella) gives us that extra dimension with his quickness, ... That (return) really turned things around for us because Calumet had some momentum going at that point in the game. It gave us a spark.

Nick Saban

He gives us a dimension out there that nobody else does in terms of his physical presence and toughness. We're happy to have it.

Edward Kennedy

in what now seems a very different and distant time.

James Norton

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

Nostradamus

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Louise Leakey

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

Floyd Abrams

A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting speech about elections?' But that's what we're doing, and that's what the legislation that passed yesterday does.

John Smith

The more I think about what I did, the more lucky I feel today. It has been two years now and it is already a distant memory.

Simeon Rice

A distant memory. Many moons ago. Now, we're looking forward. It's the future. We're living it now. We're in the moment. It's a whole another ballgame. It's a whole another perspective. It's this year. It's about what we have. It's about pioneering back to new things and getting ourselves back to winning things like Super Bowls.

Isabella Bird

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.

Roger Smith

We couldn't take any more orders for that year. People also wanted their goods as soon as they ordered, they didn't want to wait for us to manufacture them some time in the distant future.

John McCarthy

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

Irish Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

John Czwartacki

It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands.

John Phillips

I was drinking tequila and I woke up in the morning and there was no one there, except the worm and myself were still there.

Sukarno

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

Two Chainz

I'm drunk and high at the same time/Drinking champagne on the airplane.

Pokey Reese

He was on drugs. He did the drinking thing. He used to party a lot. That's in his past now.

Aminatta Forna

I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it.

Jeff Greene

I don't drink coffee. I like nice wines with dinner.

Tori Amos

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

Samuel Johnson

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

Miles Franklin

... we each have our fleeting hour.

Emily Giffin

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

Queen Rania of Jordan

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

M. F. K. Fisher

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

Allen Ginsberg

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Ali MacGraw

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Talulah Riley

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

A.E. Howard

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Bill Ross

It is a language, and it touches on things oral or written language don't get to. When I first met Antonio, I wondered if he could speak. He was so shy.

Tony DiSanto

Laguna' was sort of told in the visual language of a lush teen drama. The idea here was to be a little grittier, more voyeuristic.

Carol Bruess

I think we're seeing a more relaxed, more offensive, some would say, use of language, the use of swearing.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Stephen Sachs

He doesn't know what language is. He has been totally isolated,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Robert Orben

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Sarah Dessen

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

Sandra Cisneros

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

Will Oldham

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

William Golding

Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.

William Arthur Ward

Before you speak, listen.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

Paul Stephenson

I think we were the better side on the night.

Char Seward

I was worried that first (Sunday) night and with each passing day, I get more worried.

Maurice Ager

I was a little surprised. Honestly, I didn't think we were going to win by 30. But you know, every team has their night and we had ours tonight.

Wayne Gretzky

I will say it one more time, I said it the other night, I didn't bet, it didn't happen, it's not going to happen, it hasn't happened, it's not something that I've done.

Maria Hernandez

He's going to come out that gate, and I'm going to be here awaiting him. We are here day and night because we have hope.

Charna Halpern

He was here two nights in a row.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Doc Sadler

I don't know yet what we will do. Tune in Wednesday night and see.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Willie Nelson

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Peggy Cohen

The notes said they weren't suffering, they were just going to sleep.

Pamela Anderson

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

Jimi Hendrix

You've got to know what goes between the notes.

Gabriel Mann

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

Maimonides

God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.

Steve Denyes

They are still using the original notes from the symphony, but they are personalizing the arrangement and making it their own.

Umberto Eco

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Heinz Guderian

When the situation is obscure, attack

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Ted Cruz

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Stephen Young

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Mario Theissen

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Richard P. Feynman

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Bob Williams

If there was something someone wanted that we didn't have, we could usually get it for them in a day or two. We tried to make things as simple as possible for our customers. I think they appreciated that.

Manuel Pellegrini

It has come at the worst possible time. But we have other options.

Theresa Hitchens

I'm not sure that is possible right now.

Tommy Thompson

We want to be uplifting, ... We want to be visionary and progressive.