Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Arnold

Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

Meg Ryan

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

Matthew McConaughey

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Matthew McConaughey

No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!

Mark Rydell

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

Marilyn vos Savant

Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

Philip Larkin

Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

Kelley Armstrong

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne

Kay Panabaker

I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that's the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people, and then just hang out with the good people.

Khaled Hosseini

A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

Khaled Hosseini

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Kerry Thornley

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Jonathan Swift

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Norman Mailer

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Oliver Stone

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.

Oliver Sacks

I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.'

Natalie Gulbis

This is one of those weeks where you have to be really, really patient.

This is more to do with profit-taking at the end of a week of extraordinary gains.

Eric Lefkofsky

My weeks tend to differ pretty dramatically.

Eric Benet

My wife and I are parents to a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's really important for me to always be there for bath time and breakfast time and on the weekends.

The first week is only a test. Now we're back in business.

The first week doesn't give us much of a snapshot.

All we worked on all week was defense.

Stephen Hendry

All week they've been fantastic, one or two little flashes, but the same as you get in the UK.

Joe Walsh

We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long.

Jimmy Carter

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.

Mahatma Gandhi

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

Oliver Cromwell

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

Norman Vincent Peale

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

Emily Bronte

Worthless as wither'd weeds.

Emily Bronte

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.