Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Ozick

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Cyril Connolly

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

Cyril Connolly

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

Cyril Connolly

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

Colonel Sanders

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

Colonel Sanders

I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Columbus Short

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

Daphne Zuniga

Where the terror is, is where you must go.

Daphne Guinness

Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

Daphne Guinness

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

Dar Williams

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

Dar Williams

I think music is another language.

Dar Williams

...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

Dar Williams

Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

Daniela Ruah

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

Danielle Fishel

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

Daniela Bobadilla

I can't imagine saying the same joke for three hours. I don't know how that would work.

Daniela Hantuchova

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

Danielle Steel

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

Danielle Steel

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

Danielle Steel

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Danielle Steel

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

Daniel Negreanu

I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

Daniel Okrent

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

Daniel Libeskind

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Dan O'Brien

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

Dan Lipinski

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

Dan Lipinski

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

Dan Marino

Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

Dan Millman

Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.