Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Bride

LOOK You see, The Cliffs of Insanity, Hurry up move the thing, and, and that other thing, MOVE IT

Jo Beverley

Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can make for some very exciting walks. And I love Halifax, a great place with all the modern things you could want, plus a wonderful sense of history, and, of course, the sea.

John Burnside

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

Stanley Baldwin

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

Nicolas Cage

Alcatraz is an unsafe place to actually make a movie in many ways because there are cliffs and rotting corroding steel pipes everywhere and old nails sticking up.

Hiro Yamagata

This is a project where everybody wins: the villages will get power, the cliffs won't be damaged and it will be a work of art,

Seth Godin

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

Jodi Picoult

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

P. J. O'Rourke

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Ellen Gilchrist

The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.

Eugenie Clark

It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

Ben Folds

Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere

Theodor Mommsen

If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.

James Vincent McMorrow

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

John Williams

Obviously we're not a coastal city, but we felt (the fair) could be a nice service to the community. We saw that people on the Gulf Coast were not prepared.

John Cornyn

means we're in for a roller coaster ride.

Jack Lavin

Shipments come in from the west coast that are sent directly to the Midwest and then distributed throughout the rest of the country.

Adam Cohen

Ultimately, it will go to help the hurricane victims in Bloomington and also be transported down to the Gulf Coast region to help the victims down there.

Baroness Orczy

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Derek Jacobi

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

Denis Thatcher

When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep

Charles Kingsley

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

Manolo Blahnik

The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

Bernard Laporte

Luckily England lost. Otherwise they would have come to Paris with the Grand Slam in mind and been even harder to beat.

David Roach

Madison is the quintessential New England town. And it's because of our secluded wooded areas. Preserving this would ensure higher property values.

Tao Okamoto

I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Charles E. Wilson

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

Ryan Howard

When I look at us, I see a young, exciting team. And with the guys we picked up, I can't wait to get to spring training and see it all unfold.

Jerry Hollendorfer

When the horse made his exciting finishes and was running on late very strong, we thought the horse might have some potential.

Jimmye Laycock

Last year, they played really tough and they've got most of those people back, including their quarterback. It should be an exciting game.

Dita Von Teese

I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they're not just looking for the latest, most normal thing.

John Updike

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

Ayrton Senna

Fear is exciting for me.

Rick Hartzell

There are a lot of exciting pieces to this game. I think it will be great fun.

Erin Horn

We're just trying to get people to come out and watch and Florida State will be an exciting game.

Britney Spears

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

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.

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Al Davis

Time never stops for the great ones

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

David Hume

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Blaise Pascal

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

History is more interesting than most people think.

Tom Rachman

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

Todd Rundgren

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

David Viscott

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

David Viscott

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Walliams

Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.

David Horowitz

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

David Icke

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

David Hockney

I love California; everything is so artificial.

David Hockney

Faces are the most interesting things we see

David Hume

But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.

David Duchovny

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

E. F. Schumacher

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

Hayley Hasselhoff

I've never worn plus size brands, and I never had to because I found what worked for my body type. So my advice is to find what works for you.

Micky Arison

I think that was a big psychological plus for us.

Ron Gardenhire

He did a super job. That'll be a plus for us.

Tim Purpura

He can play all three (outfield) positions, and he runs exceptionally well and has a plus arm, ... He's more of a speed-and-defense type of guy.

Bob Walsh

I tell them this isn't about me, it's about you. This is your time. I keep telling them not to worry about that stuff, that if we go out and try to keep getting better every game, we'll get 600 plus some.

Julia Mancuso

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

Michael Vick

This time it's going to be in different weather conditions. I think that will be a plus for us.

Mike McCarthy

Throwaways are OK. When a quarterback throws the ball away in our system, that's a plus. That's a plus decision. That's the way I've always graded it.

Tom Richards

This is the first time in three years we've had a jayvee team. It's been a plus for our program.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

William Shakespeare

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Bruce Paltrow

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

Jan Morris

Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

Eli Roth

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"

Barbet Schroeder

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

William Shakespeare

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

Arthur Symons

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

C. S. Lewis

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

Lisa Hall

She did what she could with what she had. She did a wonderful job.

Bob Roach

She's very confident. She's well-integrated with the other kids. She's a wonderful young lady.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?