Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Gardiner

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

Simon Schama

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac, too.

Theodor Mommsen

We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil.

Xun Zi

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

John Ashcroft

In a region of unmatched historical heritage ... there is a circumstance where the restoration of these hallmarks of antiquity can draw tourists, artists, scientists, business individuals, historians,

Noah Feldman

What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time.

Claire Tomalin

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

M. Night Shyamalan

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Jim Murray

The only bad thing about Spokane is that there's nothing to do after 10 in the morning

Lorraine Bracco

The only bad thing is that I've been smoking cigarettes. I smoke in the play, so I've limited myself to smoking only in the theater.

David Land

The potential for going through $70 a barrel is certainly there, it wouldn't take a lot of bad news. You've got the U.S. hurricane season in the not too distant future, as well as the driving season.

Ron Aldy

The postseason depends on who's playing better that night and you don't have to have but one bad night.

Jeff Gundy

The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.

Ashley Josephson

We are pretty disappointed we didn't come out right away and play our 'A' game. We had a pretty bad first half, not intense enough. ... The first half is what killed us.

Hu Shih

The Renaissance movement of the last two decades differs from all the early movements in being a fully conscious and studied movement.

Mark White

Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue.

Sun Tzu

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

Zhuangzi

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Zhuangzi

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

Mark White

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

Lao Tzu

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Xun Zi

A person is born with a liking for profit.

Jean Ross

We're going to put together a corrected list that will run in the newspaper.

Mike Adkins

When we finally get all the numbers posted and even in the next day or two when any mistakes are corrected and adjustments are made, I think it'll wind up being double that.

Jim Dyke

We'll see what everyone says, and if anything needs to be corrected or updated, we would put something out after the speeches.

Chris Winans

This practice largely had been corrected by 1997,

Mark Manning

They recognized we should have had another penalty point, ... It needed to be corrected before the 197-pound match, so they upheld the score.

Jorge Gallent

After our four straight losses, we have a long discussion and we viewed the tape of our previous matches. From there we identified our weaknesses and corrected it.

Ted Delisi

Sometimes errors are made, and they're going to be corrected in a timely manner.

Sharon Bolton

I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong.

James Phillips

Even though we lost a lot we still got some people who can play. We've proven that in the past and we've corrected our mistakes from last week and I think we're going to have a pretty good defense this year.

Charles Dickens

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Dickens

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

Charles Dickens

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

Charles Dickens

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

Charles Dickens

It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

Charles Dickens

Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.

Charles Dickens

The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.

Chris Priester

They recognized that we need this new hospital.

Randal Pinkett

At some level, I am a celebrity. I'm recognized all the time.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Bonnie McKee

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

I think the ruling recognized the government's stance and its assertions.

Robin Weigert

I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.

Barbara Bishop

We are thrilled to be recognized by the county.

Warner Johnston

Our city's playgrounds are nationally recognized for safety.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Charles Mackay

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

Jason Chaffetz

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

Anton Chekhov

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Margaret Sanger

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

Max Beerbohm

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

Mason Cooley

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

J. M. Coetzee

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Tana French

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

Swami Vivekananda

Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies.

Mercedes Ruehl

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Ray Anderson

I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.

Emily VanCamp

I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Christine Quinn

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

Christine Quinn

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

Patrick Marber

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.