Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Leunig

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.

Samuel Butler

Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

Steve Ruggiero

With the high tax rates, this seems like the wisest choice. They are a strong company in their markets so that seems to be the right course to take.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Joseph Howe

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

William Shakespeare

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

William Shakespeare

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Harvey Rosenfield

What we're seeing is a tremendous increase in the number of complaints and horror stories, including fatalities, associated with the rush to corporate, profit driven health care in our country.

Chris Cleave

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

Chris Cleave

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

China Mieville

When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.

Charles Baudelaire

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Charles Baudelaire

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

Charles Hermite

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

Charles Inglis

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

David Ansen

The plethora of special effects -- some dazzling, some clumsy -- make "Harry Potter" at times resemble a generic Hollywood horror movie. That three-headed dog that stands guard over a treasure was better left to the imagination. . .

Bob Lekites

We remain confident about our long-term customer demand in the U.S. and abroad. And whether it's in Europe, Asia or Latin America, we need to be prepared to deploy a modern jet freighter that's flexible enough to operate anywhere.

Tracy Perkins

What we're really doing is running a modern airline with classic airplanes. Our maintenance efforts have to go well above and beyond what an airline with new airplanes has to do. It's quite a challenge.

Jim Angell

We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music from modern Celtic rock bands like the Seven Nations. We'll play a couple of more contemporary Irish tunes that I wouldn't call rock; they're more contemporary ballads. We haven't set it all out yet, but they run the gamut.

Qu Yuan

We feel that we can see a modern lifestyle in those shows. American dramas also show the same kind of lifestyle. We know that South Korea and America have similar political systems and economies. But it's easier to accept that lifestyle from South Koreans because they are culturally closer to us. We feel we can live like them in a few years.

Vince Paul

We feel that the genre of African dance it's not unlike the genre of French classical dance or modern dance it's simply a genre. It's not a novelty. It's become one of the standard art forms of dance.

Alan Bishop

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

Charles Lamb

Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.

Chaim Potok

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.