Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Walker

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do.

Dodie Smith

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Stephen Page

When you're racing, you hang on for dear life. Everything is shaking, and on the turns your head is literally hanging outside of the car.

Mickey Rooney

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

Bonnie Langford

'Dr Who' is an extraordinary association that I have because I didn't realise until I was in the show quite how worldwide it is and how popular and how dear it is to so many people's hearts.

Brian Celio

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

Andrea Barrett

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

Le Corbusier

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

Lilly Singh

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

Alan Cohen

The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.

Alan Cohen

You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.

Ernest Hemingway

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

In the broken places, the light shines through.

Sen Freedman

The reaction of Northeast Utilities, particularly the Connecticut Light & Power division, to the winter storm during the week of Jan. 15, 2006, was unconscionable.

David Briggs

There is light at the end of the tunnel, but how long is the tunnel?.

Ian Shepherdson

There is at least some light at the end of the tunnel, but unfortunately it is still a long way off,

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

F. Sionil Jose

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

Laura Ahearn

Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.

Christopher Ricks

The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

Chet Faker

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

David Zayas

There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

Neneh Cherry

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

Tony Fernandes

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

Sarah Hall

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

Kim Zimmerman

We are not going to have a lot of time to do things outside, but a lot of teams are in pretty much the same situation this time of the year.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Andy Goldsworthy

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Anna Chlumsky

There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Smokey Robinson

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Jennifer Zimmerman

These are not songs for women who twirl their parasols. These are songs for women who get dusty.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

John Huber

I get to make my own schedule, and I get a lot of studying done.

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Nipsey Russell

He was always reading, always studying and was very, very quiet. He had a photographic memory.

Lance Reddick

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

Dan Brown

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Vanessa Williams

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

Banksy

Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.

Petrarch

The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.

Greg Skomal

Using tags, we know where they are in the summer and fall, but not in the winter.

William Shakespeare

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

William Shakespeare

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

William Shakespeare

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.