Famous Quotes & Sayings

William John Wills

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

Victoria Hanley

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

Vitruvius

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Mary McCarthy

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

Katherine Harris

The appearance doesn't matter as much as the content.

Bosco Tjan

When you're multitasking, you get the appearance that you are working on several things at once, but if you stop and finish one thing, and then the other, you'll get them done faster.

James Roberts

Whereas women generally value their appearance more than men, which can lead to 'retail therapy,' men value social recognition. Even though they're both trying to build self-esteem, they're coming at it from two very different directions.

Mike Nichols

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

Margaret D. Nadauld

Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.

Marc Jones

This was a very pleasing win for us.

Therese Lisieux

One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.

David Cameron

It's better than I expected. It's a very pleasing result.

John Gall

It was a very pleasing tournament for me.

Joshua Sasse

As an actor, it's so, so rewarding and so pleasing to not be reprimanded.

Shakti Gawain

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

Dr. Seuss

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

Bible Bible

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Hank Haney

I know it comes with the territory. The only person I'm worried about pleasing is Tiger.

Tu Mingde

The preparations have been going smoothly and well on schedule.

Nora Roberts

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

Plautus

Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]

Jon Glaser

I'm sort of known in the comedy community as 'Smooth Sailing,' just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn.

Cameron Johnson

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

Ashley Wagner

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Caroline Knapp

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

Mindy Kaling

I found it to be smooth sailing - 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career.

Harold Vogel

He's done it in the right way. He's smoothed all the ruffled feathers.