Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Collins

Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say. "A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset.

Suzanne Collins

Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange." "Orange?" He seems unconvinced. "Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once." "Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. "Thank you." But more words tumble out. "You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

Suzanne Collins

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

Suzanne Collins

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand

Stephen Lang

Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing a play right now.' Because I loved doing plays when I was doing them. Then I think, 'I want to do it right now, but will I want to do that Sunday matinee in six weeks?'

Stephen Leacock

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Stephen King

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

Thomas Carlyle

Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is... the Shadow of Ourselves.

Steven Spielberg

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

Stephan Jenkins

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

Shakira

In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.

Scottie Pippen

The mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays.

Pope Francis

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

James Lovelock

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

Stephenie Meyer

But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide?

Stephen Colbert

Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset.

Thomas Pynchon

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

Thomas B. Macaulay

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

Tim Vine

I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics – I just got bronze.

Tim Tebow

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.

Thomas Ligotti

I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.

Thomas Kinkade

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

Thomas Frank

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

Thomas Bulfinch

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Thomas Brooks

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

Vin Scully

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

Russell Baker

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Truman Capote

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Rick Riordan

Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

Rick Riordan

Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.

Rick Riordan

You, sir, are a ray of sunshine. -Percy Jackson