Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheila Ballantyne

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Peg Bracken

How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happens quite often, such as three times a day, in which case you must simply get used to it. Remember, other people like you as well or better for it, because it makes them feel so superior; so you've spread a little sunshine. And at the very least, you've served as a bad example.

Marlene Dietrich

...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.

Marlene Dietrich

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

Maria Sharapova

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

Lucy Larcom

If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.

Louisa May Alcott

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

Louisa May Alcott

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

Louisa May Alcott

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…

John Flanagan

Face your fears, Halt had always thought him, and more often than not they fade like mist in the sunshine

Jonathan Glazer

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

Jonathan Haidt

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

Kate Winslet

Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

Katarina Witt

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

Julie Delpy

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

Julie Burchill

Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'

Judith Hill

Sunshine always inspires me.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

Peter Mayle

Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.

Pete Townshend

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

Paulo Coelho

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Peter Matthiessen

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

Pope Francis

Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Let us find time to be with him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moonlight is sculpture.

Paul Dirac

I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more relaxed state… I used to take long solitary walks on Sundays, during which I tended to review the current situation in a leisurely way. Such occasions often proved fruitful, even though (or perhaps, because) the primary purpose of the walk was relaxation and not research.

P. C. Cast

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

Paullina Simons

The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still...that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning.