Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Margaret Millar

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Joyce Cary

Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden. It's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else.

Charles Dickens

When they were all tired of blind-man's buff, there was a great game at snap-dragon, and when fingers enough were burned with that, and all the raisins were gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing lags to a substantial supper, and a mighty bowl of wassail, something smaller than an ordinary wash-house copper, in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling with a rich look, and a jolly sound, that were perfectly irresistible.

Abraham Lincoln

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

None of us as parents brought up our children to be this way, ... We all have some turn out to be bad apples ... As one parent to another, I have a lot of compassion for him.

Annalee Newitz

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

Jeffrey Jones

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

Ezra Cornell

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

Eugene Mirman

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

George R. R. Martin

The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

Gail Simmons

You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

Gabe Newell

I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

George Horace Lorimer

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

J. B. Priestley

We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

J. B. Smoove

You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

George Will

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Elon Musk

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

Hannibal Buress

My nephew's always crying. I'm like, 'Dude, why are you crying? Your life is great. All you do is eat apple sauce and take dumps. That's your day.

Guy Kawasaki

Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.

Gwen Moore

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

J. D. Salinger

I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

Jack Horner

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

One parent asked me if we ever needed someone to pick up sticks. I said sure and they sent their son to help out around the farm. Then the apples were ready. Soon two more boys were there to help get the ladders out and pick the apples. Then something was ready in the garden and we decided to start canning and eventually decided to enter the Clay County Fair.

Some ISPs are very proactive, and are spending huge amounts of money combating spam. The problem is not all ISPs are doing this. A smaller group of ISPs profit from carrying spam or take no action, and those bad apples touch the rest of the ISP community.

Barry Lopez

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Bill Budge

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

Bertrand Russell

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

Kathy Smith

The apples are riper. Tech companies going public are more established compared to the ones at the time of the bubble.

Steve Young

I think more than anything, his game-day career was just the coasting part of his life. It was just picking up the harvest. All the apples were already on the tree.

George Herbert

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.