Famous Quotes & Sayings

William John Wills

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

Blake Mycoskie

I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.

Buzz Aldrin

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

Henry Bessemer

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Bryan Volpenhein

I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

Virginia Woolf

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

Mike Shockley

If you spill liquid bronze on the floor, it runs like water. You can't dance away from it n you have to keep going with the pour, even if it burns your boots.

Tracey Emin

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.

Clay Harpster

Pink marble floors four inches thick. Thirty-six solid bronze lamps. They were very gorgeous. Just the whole house was incredible.

Valerie June

I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.

Fritz Kreisler

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.

Jonathan Fox

When they dropped it, we got the rights to do it.

Evan Spiegel

Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.

George Mirabal

We are happy that the first shoe dropped and we made the cut. But we now just have to wait for the next shoe to drop, naming us as the winner.

Troy Brown

We got on a losing streak and dropped four in a row. Now we need to start us a winning streak.

Brian De Palma

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.

Janisha Gearlds

Yeah, because when I went to the hole, it was all open, and that opened up our shooters. And then they dropped down to try and stop me from going to the hole.

Peter Segal

Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Vivek Wadhwa

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Bill Hader

Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Vladimir Potanin

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Brittany Murphy

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Dallas Roberts

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

Steven Sinofsky

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

V. E. Schwab

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Francia Raisa

I really like Neutrogena for skin care and CoverGirl makeup. I can't stand heavy makeup. I feel like my skin can't breathe, and CoverGirl is really light.

Roger Clemens

We played with heavy hearts, ... I don't know if I could've done what Paul O'Neill did.

Mark Ronson

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

Carlos Garcia

Typically we'll see the results of a heavy snowfall the next season.

Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Halle Berry

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

Joe Arbona

You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.

Rob Portman

We've got some heavy lifting over the next three months,

William Shakespeare

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

Gao Zhisheng

The police in different cities, including Beijing, are starting a mass hunt for hunger strikers.

David Selby

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

Dawn Staley

We are not in the driver's seat. And when you're not in the driver's seat, you got to play hungry every night. And that's what we're doing.

Robert Musil

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

Glory Slater

We didn't quit and we hung in there. We didn't lie down and die.

Patrice Motsepe

Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

Tom Attanasi

We could have hung our heads. But we clawed back.

Ed Swanson

Yeah, they're a national contender. I mean, there's not many weaknesses on there. They play like a hungry team.

David Ortiz

You know what, the last time they were here, we went back to my house. We hung out together,

Rich Harden

You did see a little of everything. That's why I need more games. I still have to iron out some mechanics. That's the big thing.

William Shakespeare

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

Gregory Miller

We know that arsenic likes to stick to iron oxides, various kinds of rust,

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Charles Spurgeon

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Bruno Latour

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Catherynne M. Valente

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

Dr. Prettyman

Where else can you get a steel sword, put on a mask and then try and kill somebody. And it's all perfectly sanctioned.

Mark Dixon

We don't have a pile of masks sitting off to one side in anticipation of a pandemic.

Kelly Ioane

We have a lot of people sick right now and others getting sick. Keri is playing with a mask and getting sick on top of that.

Nick Carter

Everyone wears a mask.

Benjamin Franklin

Men take more pains to mask than to mend.

Dennis Potter

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Joanna Scott

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Gore Vidal

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

Paul Reubens

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wendy E. Long

I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

Willie Puz

There is, at this point, little that we can do. Because it's private property, we can't regulate it.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

David Quammen

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

David Henry Hwang

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

Derek Jarman

Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

Edgar Degas

What a horrible thing yellow is.

Aimee Bender

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know I can’t go out there. There’s daylight outside. (Ravyn) Well, that’s what happens when the big yellow ball comes up over the mountains. Amazing isn’t it? (Susan)

John O'Hara

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

James Lee Burke

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?