Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Teasdale

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold

Tammy Faye Bakker

I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts; There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy, The precious poetry of life shall gild its leaden cares; There, as thou walkest by the sea beneath the gentle stars, Many kindling seeds of good will sprout within thy soul; Thou shalt weep in Solitude,--thou shalt pray in Solitude. Thou shalt sing for joy of heart, and praise the grace of Solitude.

Dennis Kucinich

The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe, whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth, kinetic, elemental; we, the earth, air, water and fire-source of nearly fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling.

William Shakespeare

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

Petrarch

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Petrarch

And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

William Shakespeare

My stars shine darkly over me

William Shakespeare

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

Bo Burnham

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

Francis Bacon

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

George Santayana

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Laurence Olivier

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

Noam Chomsky

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

Gregory Keyes

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

George Herbert

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

Quintus Ennius

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

Gena Pharis

When I get all the bananas and oranges, I'll let you know.

Edith Wharton

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Thomas Bjorn

I probably had a bottle of water on every hole and then ate a couple of bananas and energy bars.

Joe Jamail

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

John Perry Barlow

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

John Cleese

How to defend yourself against a banana

Sergey Galitsky

When we cut the price for bananas by 1 ruble, we sell 100 tons a day more... There are people who live within their budget.

Rose George

Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.

Maryann Jakubczyk

We had no idea who he was. But he took on this project and he?s got the kids here all going bananas about it.