Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Michael Drayton

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Stockwell Day

It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its implications, will want.

Mark Rosenbaum

I think the homeless have just found shelter with the federal courts. I think it's a brave and courageous decision.

Chuck Prochaska

I think it's unfortunate because what we did for our readership was something that most newspapers were scared to do. I think Acton and I made a brave decision to publish the cartoons.

Brenda Jones

The owners at the time thought, well, were going to have to give all this money back, ... And he comes driving up, late, to do the show. Hed been to a Braves game.

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Scott Erwin

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

Pat Whitcomb

Jake dominated his weight class. And Josh was just consistent and did what he had to do.

James Carter

Karr makes a big difference for us because he gives us a consistent jump shooter out there. And the rest of the kids feed off of his positive influence.

Sandrine Krul

Kayla is our most consistent player. She's our starting point guard. She's a captain. She hasn't missed a practice in two years.

Jeff Bambule

Jon had a great game. Without question, he's been our most consistent player all season. When we needed someone to step up tonight, Jon was the guy.

Matt Hinkle

Joe's been consistent all year long. He's got a lot of speed. He's more of a get-away guy. I was really pleased with the line blocking.

Chris Ault

Joshua has been one of our more consistent defensive players. He's making plays. He's a natural.

Aaron Nida

Josh is right on the verge and just needs to make that next height to get that provisional. He is consistent right now which is a big improvement from last year.

Tad Devine

John Kerry has a 35-year consistent record of fighting for people. ... And we welcome the debate.

Carol Ross

I think it is good to know what it feels like in March. We're trying to learn what it feels like to win a championship in March and we're going to have to play consistent to do that.

Mary McFadden

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

Rick Smith

People get stuck on power, but good swings can generate effortless speed, not powerless speed. Powerless speed comes from this violent effort to swing the club, and that's not how it works.

Michael Palin

Ronnie could turn himself into any character. He did it with an effortless ease.

Catherine Malandrino

Macrame is effortless.

Kerry Collins

Everything is so effortless for him, ... It doesn't look like he's running. I can throw it as far as I can and he catches up to it with no problem. He's a unique guy. He can run unique routes. Every day, I see something that's new and different, and it's something that I like.

Tom Petty

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

Yigal Azrouel

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

Richelle Mead

The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.

Richelle Mead

I brought my lips down to hers, and it was like everything that had ever happened to me had simply been a warm-up for this moment, that this was where my life truly began.

Sarah Palin

The GOP needs to live the planks of its platform, not just offer lip service.

Vanessa Hudgens

I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.

Sarah Wayne Callies

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

William Butler Yeats

What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

All women are lips, nothing but lips.

Rick Riordan

Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred?

Vladimir Nabokov

Her lips were like large crimson polyps.

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Edward Furlong

I was like, man, I love this. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Susan Hill

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

The Archives

know how to show you that they love you.

Farley Flex

Just the energypeople love you man, that's straight up.

Jen Kirkman

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.

Dick Schaap

I also love the controversy of it. Even if I didn't think he should be up that high, I like the controversy it created.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Richard Dawkins

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

William McNamara

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

William McNamara

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

Sara Bareilles

I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.

Rob Bell

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

Satya Nadella

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

Robertson Davies

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

Sandra Bullock

To sit with George [Clooney] and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie [ "Gravity"].

John Madden

His team is not putting up much of a fight.

Robert Bea

It didn't hold. There isn't a door, and they've got measly sandbags they're putting in to compensate.

Daron Rahlves

I was just trying to concentrate on the simple things: Putting down some smooth skiing, which I didn't do yesterday, and having fun.

Patsy Christie

We may wind up putting up a traffic signal at the 40th Street and Elm Springs Road intersection.

Ryan Howard

He was putting it right where he wanted to put it.

Rajeev Shukla

I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

Chad Johnson

Really, nothing. You're just putting together as much as you can. You work on whatever you're working on personally, and you just want to get out healthy.

David Coulthard

If you start putting that stuff in place you are using valuable energy.

Phil Garner

I'll say something to them, ... by putting them right back into the same situation come Tuesday.

Dwyane Wade

He was starting to turn red with the tape over his mouth. I was starting to get a little worried about him.

Brenda Bell

If we could get rid of these hurricanes and red tide, we'd be OK. We've just been killed this year with all of that.

Francis Coppola

I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist.

Daron Rahlves

I'd like to be wearing the red (leader's) bib in downhill.

Richelle Mead

I saw endless depths of brown, the depths I'd fallen into so many times. No red rings. Dimitri...was not a Strigoi. And he was weeping.

Rose McGowan

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

Travis Tritt

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Red Barber

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

Robin Williams

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

Dave Tuttle

Harland understands the technical side of 9-1-1 and how it's supposed to work.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I think it's going to be a little different for him because he's going to play the same team so many times. But we're going to see an even better side of him because he's going to be able to adjust.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

S. Hughes

I think you're going to see some sideways consolidation throughout the summer,

Roz Chast

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Bill Ritter

We're on the Durango side of the litigation, not the Texas side.

Gene Green

It is so important for our side of the county,

Lindsay Davenport

I think it took away a lot of it, especially on the women's side . . . on the men's side, you have some upsets once in a while.

Walt Disney

I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

Jon Glaser

I'm sort of known in the comedy community as 'Smooth Sailing,' just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn.

Caroline Knapp

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

Mindy Kaling

I found it to be smooth sailing - 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career.

Jimmy Cliff

Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

Carl Everett

I told him in the top of the ninth, when we win this game, you're the MVP. To come out as smooth as he did, to me he's the MVP.

Giselle Davies

The tests went very smoothly and there were no complaints.

Ashley Wagner

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Aftab Dada

Everything is going as smooth as could be.

Michael Culver

I wrote: Vicki and Michael, stronger than fire.

Susan McGrath

Katherine has always been a very strong player. She was all over the place today.

Rusty Agte

Her voice is much stronger than it was, and getting better each day.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Bob Wagner

He's a strong commit. He visited BYU the first week of January.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball.

Abbott L. Lowell

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Robert Cray

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Ryan Lochte

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.

Toyo Ito

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Woodrow Wilson

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

William Wilberforce

No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Two Chainz

I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.

Chris Isaak

He was really cool, ... We really connected. His voice just aches.

Rob Sheffield

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

Richelle Mead

I'm not really qualified to install a security system," said Dimitri. "Really? There's something you can't do?" Adrian's voice was so soft that I could barely hear him, and he was sitting right next to me.

Richelle Mead

The ghost of a smile flickered across his lips. ‘You’re always the voice of reason. Just try listening to yourself once in a while.

Richelle Mead

No,''he said.''I was a Strigoi. I was one of them. I did...terrible things.'' The words were mild, but the tone of his voice spoke legions. The radiant faces of his family turned sober.''I was lost. Beyond hope. Except...Rose believed in me. Rose never gave up.

Richelle Mead

No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.