Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ramakrishna

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

Ramana Maharshi

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

Sean Parker

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

Scott McNealy

Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.

Saul Griffith

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

Li Na

Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.

Li Na

Nobody says if you hit No. 2 in the world you have to win all your matches.

Les Brown

Leap and grow your wings on the way down

Lennox Lewis

You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

Tess Gerritsen

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

Leo Fender

No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person,

Lee Trevino

The older I get, the better I used to be.

Karl Urban

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

Karl Pilkington

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot...

Julie Klausner

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Joshua Slocum

To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.

Ouida

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Kathy Acker

Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Kanye West

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.

Patrick Stewart

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

Paullina Simons

Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)

Karen MacNeil

A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.

Karen MacNeil

Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

Karen MacNeil

You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or that a big voluptuous chardonnay is like Marilyn Monroe -round, bosomy - you can remember that chardonnay, If you say a wine is snappy and lively, like Robin Williams, that's very different than the Anthony Hopkins of wine - urbane, sophisticated, measured, considered.

Judith Thurman

Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

George MacDonald

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

Emily Robison

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. Im just not a cold weather person.

Elizabeth Goudge

The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter colouring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light.

Elaine Paige

I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.

Eknath Easwaran

At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation.