Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Samuel Butler

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Michael Johnson

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

Alan Cohen

Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.

John Brandon

When you see gold laying on the ocean floor, it looks just like this. It's so shiny and beautiful.

Aerin Lauder

I've always liked simple. Growing up, I wore corduroys and Lacoste shirts, Maraolo flats, and maybe one gold bracelet.

Fernando Mateo

We're not doing this because he was the first Hispanic player to have 3,000 hits, or because he was a 12-time Gold Glove winner or 12-time All-Star. We're doing it because of the way he lived his life and the way he died.

Geoff Blum

Those are golden opportunities. A strikeout right there would have been better than what I did.

Betty White

I think that a show that is as successful as 'The Golden Girls' is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don't feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that's a privilege.

Lars von Trier

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

Anselm Kiefer

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Charles Dickens

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Gary Barnett

Web services are the mortar. But you also have to consider the bricks and the shape of the building.

Terry Pratchett

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

John Oates

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

Benjamin Britten

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

Johnson Honimae

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

D. James

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

Mahavira

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

Phillips Brooks

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Will Ferrell

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.

Ingrid Reisman

We're estimating a few thousand (people) who would have ridden the monorail if 'The Deuce' was not in existence.

Bruce Lipton

Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science.

Carolyn Porco

We have the smoking gun that proves the existence of water.

Sydney Smith

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence

Ludwig von Mises

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

Harry Crosby

Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.