Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Steinbeck

A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.

John Sayles

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

John Piper

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

Philip Sidney

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.

Philip James Bailey

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

Edward Burnett Tylor

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

Edie Sedgwick

I'm greedy. I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends. Keep that superlative high just on the cusp of each day so that I radiate sunshine.

Edie Sedgwick

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There’s no way to tell anyone who hasn’t been through it, there’s no way to explain it to anyone who hasn’t tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine

Henry Vaughan

Early, as well as late, Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

Larry Gagosian

The sun never sets on my gallery.

George Farquhar

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

George Galloway

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

Jon Foreman

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

Jon Foreman

The shadow proves the sunshine.

Jon Foreman

Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

Luc de Clapiers

The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.

Louis Oosthuizen

I love nothing more than being in the last group on Sunday at the Masters. It's the greatest thing in professional golf.

Lord Acton

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

John Adams

The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.

Jacob Bronowski

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.

Mattie Stepanek

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

Matthew Arnold

Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun...