Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blake Mycoskie

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Pele

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Jason Ricci

Everything surrounds him. He's our leader. He's well-known and he's being heavily-recruited.

Whit Hartz

You're pretty much surrounded by sharp, poky things.

Samuel Schmid

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

Sidney Lumet

Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

Frank Herbert

Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

Muhammad Iqbal

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

Charles Buxton

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Barbara Pym

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Ambrose Bierce

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.