Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze

Lloyd Jones

Let there be a fresh breeze of new honesty, new idealism, new integrity. You have typewriters, presses and a huge audience. How about raising hell?

Robert Frost

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze ...

Gary Hines

What a great day for golf, we had a slight breeze and tough enough hole locations to challenge most everybody that teed it up today,

Gwendoline Christie

I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe.

Catherine Tate

How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones.

Diane Lane

He's dating again, ... He's out there and it's comparatively a breeze for him, at 71, of course, because he's a guy. We deal with that in the movie, and it is quite funny.

Nick Zito

He's doing great. He'll be ready for his first breeze in about two weeks.

Karen Hughes

I also go on long walks with my dog, a golden retriever named Breeze - and I work out with weights at a health club a couple of times a week.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

C. S. Lewis

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'

Bruce Chatwin

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.

Gaelic Proverb

Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.

Jane Hirshfield

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

Bob Thaves

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

Aimee Bender

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

John Curry

When you talk about all of these things and weave them together, for the first time, conservationists have something in which they can see the forest for the trees. It screams that it needs our attention.

Bill Nye

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

Dawn Powell

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Mike Leavitt

If one thinks of the world as though it were a vast forest, if there is a spark in the forest and you are there to see it, you are able to simply snuff it out,

Dorothy Stang

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

Todd Berry

I think sometimes we lose the forest for the trees. . . . When you have a full-time Legislature like Wisconsin does, you're going to get this kind of behavior.

Doug Hamilton

There aren't models of solar systems or mock rain forests or any other kinds of displays in the classrooms. If it is a subject they have always found to be difficult, they are going to be disinterested in what the teacher is talking about and be more interested in what's on the wall or what's on the ceiling.

Tessa Hafen

He is trying to get the Forest Service and the tribe to reach an agreement. He appreciates what the tribe is trying to do.

Robert Townsend

Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

John Irving

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.

Mark Jensen

We've registered several hundred players in just a month and a half. We're quite pleased with the results of the soft launch.

Kimberly Nelson

One hundred percent will still be reported under the change. All we lose is some of the details.

Joe Horn

One hundred and 55 percent, definitely, ... Unless something ungodly happens.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Boomer Esiason

Randy Moss is not a leader. He doesn't deserve to be the captain of the Oakland Raiders. He's the one who said he wanted to be traded. He's not happy. His effort is lacking. That's a disgrace to the uniform. I don't care what uniform you have on.

Bill Russell

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Jim Schaffer

Oak is always going to be the most popular.

Jay Leno

What's going on with the Oakland Raiders? You know, I don't want to say the Raiders are bad, but you know, now, a lot of fans are painting their faces just so they won't be recognized.

Lupe Fiasco

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

Steve Cropper

I'm totally in support of having single-family occupancy here in Oak Hill. I'm still trying to understand the rest of this.

Jim Otto

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

John Madden

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

Rickey Henderson

I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.

David Hockney

If you like music you like silence actually.

August Strindberg

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

Audre Lorde

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

Audre Lorde

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

Audre Lorde

I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.

Blaise Pascal

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

Blaise Pascal

Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

Alexandra Adornetto

I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly.

Jane Austen

From politics it was an easy step to silence.