Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fra Giocondo

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Laurence Hope

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.

Pedro Noguera

The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, ... Poverty is right beneath the surface.

Dottie Kastigar

One of the toughest jobs we have is convincing some people that we're not making up this problem. The homeless out here may be harder to see, but they are all around, right beneath the surface.

Rebecca Davis

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .

Rudyard Kipling

Of all the trees that grow so fair, / Old England to adorn, / Greater are none beneath the Sun, / Than Oak and Ash and Thorn.

Jonathan Chen

No one has the road of life mapped out. We pave away what's beneath our feet. If it leads to happiness, maybe someone will walk on.

Bill Cosby

She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.

M. Thompson

This was a sacred day ù a very delicate kind of thing. There was that little period where there was a no-fly zone on this subject matter, with a few exceptions. Probably now, enough time has passed and we're getting new perspective on this.

Jimmy Cliff

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.

Joseph Schwieterman

The real excitement starts now as they gradually merge two operations. They've got the two-year window, but it will be a delicate act,

Amy J. Berg

The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.

William Wordsworth

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And humble cares, and delicate fears;A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;And love and thought and joy.

Fran Wallis

Ginger is delicate and fragile, and Ginger is looking for her partner. So it fit.

Ryan Murphy

I didn't want it to feel like a slasher movie, ... I wanted it to be a little more kabuki and delicate and weird.

Carlo Ancelotti

We are going through a delicate time and we must overcome this situation as soon as possible. We are making mistakes and as usual in football you pay for them.

C. L. R. James

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

David Icke

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.

Barry Bonds

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Audrina Patridge

I always take a cold shower to wake me up and close my pores. Then I moisturize my face.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Dennis McKenna

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Charles Colson

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

Kiesza

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

Alexis Bledel

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

Louise Nurding

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

John Burnside

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

Johnny Grant

We have lost one of the finest gentlemen this industry ever knew,

Steve Young

We had some of the finest musicians in Nashville contributing to this album.

Bob Letsch

Jamie played his finest floor game of the year, on offense and defense.

John Mara

He was the finest man we've ever known or will ever hope to know, ... and he was our dad.

Toni Lydman

We're going home with a medal, so I guess it's not all that bad.

A.J. Feeley

Last year, things were a little different than they are now, ... I guess if you're going to look for reasons, look for excuses, I guess you could say those.

Erica Jong

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

Candace Cameron Bure

It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!

Charles Bronson

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

Dane Cook

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

Anna Kendrick

I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.

Ferdi Heyneke

Monday was a very big day but the market is volatile and I guess there was some profit taking but industrials and some insurers are stable.

Joe Torre

My guess would be that this would be it.

David Duchovny

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

Dido Armstrong

Inside everybody's hiding something.

John Galliano

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Dottie Kastigar

Lots of barns out here to hide in. And these are people who don't necessarily want to be found. They still have a lot of pride.

Britney Spears

Look, there's another kid hiding from his parents,

Brit Marling

If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

Rig Veda

One should never lie to hide one's mistake.

Thomas Kinkade

She was my high school sweetheart. I hide an 'N' in every painting.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

William Williams

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Ed Garland

His oath should have been, 'I Tony Harwood swear to lie, I say you should reject Tony Harwood 100 percent. Throw him out. He ain't worth nothing.

Fernando Rospigliosi

He can't be believed. He's a man who lies systematically.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

David Icke

One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

David Hume

We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Deidre Hall

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

Dee Hock

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

Deb Caletti

You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.

Al Franken

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

Al Franken

If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

Jane Austen

There are secrets in all families.

Jack Nance

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Greg Rusedski

(John) McEnroe sees him in the top 20, I see him getting into the top 50 and then the top 20.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Bob Harris

Well, I think everyone kind of sees us as the sheriff, you know.

Anthony Hemingway

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

Richard Engel

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Brandon Sanderson

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Charles Dudley Warner

Isolation breeds conceit.

Charles de Gaulle

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Armistead Maupin

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

Edith Wharton

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Baltasar Gracian

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Coco Chanel

That's what fame is: solitude.

Charles Baudelaire

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Arthur Brisbane

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

John Keats

O cruelty, / To steal my Basil-pot away from me!

Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Jean Harlow

Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Creed Bratton

Honestly, I love stealing things.

Channing Tatum

I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Henry George

Everybody works but the vacant lot