Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Coombes

Let us take up the burden of the fallen, set our hand to the task they left unfinished. Let us, with God's help, make the world a better, happier and brighter place.

Stephane Dujarric

Look on the bright side. Mr. Taylor is in jail. He's in the special court where he was indicted. We feel it's safe.

Chris Watson

Look on the bright side -- I got here and I got second, so I did my job. Next year, I'm gonna win this.

William Morris

Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we the living our lives are giving To bring the bright new world to birth.

Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

As for what I might wear, my mantra is that, no matter how chic the event, I don't want to look too prim. I like wearing short cocktail frocks to black-tie events; it just always feels more like me, and a bright red lip is always a staple.

Cameron Russell

Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

Steve Wiggs

We did end up raising a little more than we were actually anticipating. As a result of that we will have to use less of the reserves than we had previously thought we would. So there is at least a little bright side.

Johnny Kidd

Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group.

Jandy Nelson

I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

David Icke

Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?

Derek Jacobi

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

Denis Waitley

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

Diana Gabaldon

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

Diana Gabaldon

I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly, "so long as it doesna bother you that I am." He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backed toward the door. "Reckon one of us should know what they're doing," he said. The door closed softly behind him; clearly the courtship was over.

Blake Mycoskie

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

Billie Jean King

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

Billy Bob Thornton

I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

Richard Carmona

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

David Icke

You don't fight for peace. You Peace for Peace.

David Icke

If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together. Non-cooperation. We cannot be imprisoned without our cooperation. Their power is in our acquiescence.

David Brin

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.

Benazir Bhutto

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Barry Alvarez

We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.

Barney Frank

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

Barney Frank

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Audre Lorde

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

Terry Francl

When the Midwest harvest gets into full swing and whether they'll be able to handle grain shipments then, that's going to be the true test.

Scottish Proverb

When the heart is full the tongue will speak

Todd Rundgren

I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.

Kevin Mitnick

Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

Skip Colcord

We're looking at the full gamut of alternatives.

Rob Manuel

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

Italo Calvino

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

John Roe

I think we managed to exorcise some ghosts left over from last year.

Leslie Moonves

I think talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God,

Bernie Bickerstaff

When you play here in the Garden, it always has that special quality to it. The ghosts are still here. We try to remind the young guys that this is a great stage to perform on.

Logan P. Smith

When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors

Du Fu

After the battle, many new ghosts cry, The solitary old man murmurs in his grief.

Joshua Sylvester

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

Bob Dylan

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Earl Steele

They're like ghosts - there one second and gone the next.

Shirley MacLaine

All those ghosts were hanging around. ... If I had been them, I would have gone to work,

Patty Fox

She was one of the first ones who actually had a couture gown made for her in Paris.

Carolina Herrera

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

Amy Lowell

I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.

Karen Morley

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

Phoebe Snow

Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'!

Carly Rager

We have two private lines that knock off $5,000 wedding gowns for $500.

Carly Rager

An old-fashioned style is really big ? the gowns look like something their grandmother would have worn. They want it to be classic, timeless.

Michelle Lombardo

You put your heart and soul into being on the road with these gowns, ... These gowns are my babies.

Amy Johnson

There is such a need for the gowns we smock.

Louise Nurding

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

Ronnie Reyes

We're still making mistakes that are haunting us. What do you do?

Ann Brashares

The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

Jimmy Spencer

He just hit me in the back bumper. When you're up in the top five, you better respect your competitors, 'cause it'll come back to haunt you.

Tim Massaquoi

That would be something that would haunt us.

Natasha Trethewey

'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.

Katie Featherston

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

will.i.am

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

Peaches Geldof

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

David Duchovny

People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it’s just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King’s English.

Ben Webster

I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm always keen to use my body in my work, so I'm looking forward to the motion capture for Smaug. Both Gollum and King Kong were primates, whereas I'm playing a serpent, so it'll be interesting - I'll have to tie my legs together, possibly, or else they'll be kind of splayed out to the side as a reptile's should be.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite the opposite in real life. In fact I'm a f**king fantastic lover.

Beau Bridges

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

Barney Frank

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Antony Hewish

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Dee Dee Ramone

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

Dierks Bentley

George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.

Alex Johnson

Like all the wind was knocked out of you.

A. Johnson

(Luca) wasn't that sharp, especially after he got the wind knocked out of him. We were able to get into their bullpen, which is really important in the third (game of the series).

Henry Johnson

Leadership requires talking about the right things and doing the right things, and sometimes you take your knocks when you do that.

Richard Thompson

We'd get them back up, and the trash trucks picking up all the debris, would knock them back down.

S. Hughes

The CPI took some of the sting out of the market, but it didn't knock out the implications of the PPI,

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Tony Hawk

There are endorsements I regret taking when I was younger and didn't know any better. But I didn't have options then. People weren't knocking on my door.

Sharon Versyp

(Minnesota) took Cyndi totally out of the game. Nikki (Smith) stepped in and was able to knock some shots down.

Aaron Peirsol

My life has been no downs, just ups knock on wood. So far, it's been all right.

Arnold Bennett

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Antonin Artaud

I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.

Antonin Artaud

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Al Yankovic

Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

Arthur Koestler

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.

Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

C. S. Lewis

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

C. S. Lewis

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

Brian Eno

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Joanna Scott

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Mark Dixon

We don't have a pile of masks sitting off to one side in anticipation of a pandemic.

Shane McFadyen

Sometimes you take things for granted. Winning masks some of the mistakes we're still making.

Satinath Sarangi

They tried to do it cheaply, without masks and gloves. It was a mess. That's why we want assurances that the work will be done properly.

Arthur Rimbaud

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Antonin Artaud

When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.

Alain de Botton

At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?

Alain de Botton

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Al Gore

...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science...Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the Earth is flat instead of round.

Al Gore

The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

Al Gore

If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn't take place, I'm sure we'd have a robust debate about it right now.

Al Gore

To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

Alexandra Paul

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

Argus Hamilton

Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director.

Finding Nemo

Seagulls: Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Nigel: Oh would you just shut up? You're rats with wings.

Terry Zwigoff

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oh yes, I studied dramatics under him for 12 years.

Jean Brown

Oh yeah, we've been celebrating here. Shirts for every child. Oh, we've been partying,

Curt Dobbs

Oh yeah. We got back to reality real quick.

Daniel Cabrera

Oh yeah, just muscles, ... It hurt, but I'm okay.

Al Horford

Oh yeah. If you forget, they make you run for those.

Curt Young

Oh yeah, he's going to be in a lot of winning situations for us. He's going to be a big part of a lot of games.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Nick Zito

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

Kim Cattrall

I've seen some women who are not particularly attractive but they have an assurance, and there's something so attractive about someone who doesn't have to work so hard.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, without the True Name, all this paraphernalia shall disappear.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

Kate Winslet

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

John Donne

If yet I have not all thy love, / Dear, I shall never have it all.

David Vitter

I have no skeletons in my closet.

Charles Barkley

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

Arthur Koestler

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Brian Eno

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

David Sedaris

Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them they remind me that I'm doing fairly well. "No more laundromat for you," they hum. My stove, a downer, tells me every day that I can't cook, and before I can defend myself my scale jumps in, shouting from the bathroom, "Well, he must be doing something. My numbers are off the charts." The skeleton has a much more limited vocabulary and says only one thing: "You are going to die.

David Cross

The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

Catherynne M. Valente

Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.

Edith Head

Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

Benjamin Franklin

A fish is a sock for a fish skeleton.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Demi Lovato

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Mike Davis

I didn't want us to take any 3s tonight because of their size.

Joe Brancato

To be a part of this tonight is a thrill.

Amy Poehler

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

Gary Sinise

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Gavin Hood

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

Tracy McMillan

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.

Douglas MacArthur

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Dorothy Richardson

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

e. e. cummings

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

Richard Garnett

He was a follower. He got tricked easily.

Nestor Carbonell

It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

Cassie Desmone

He managed his way through a lot of tricky holes.