Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Stanley

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

Charles Dickens

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Camille Pissarro

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Leonor Varela

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

Audre Lorde

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

William Shakespeare

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

William Shakespeare

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

Socrates

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.

Cindy Sherman

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

Ernest Borgnine

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

Abdul Latif

We prefer to stay in our house as we still have our second floor. We would leave the house and go to the shelter houses only if the water has already reached roof high.

Sarah Hall

I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Nimrat Kaur

Once while vacationing at my grandparent's house in Rajasthan, we were sleeping on the roof and I spotted an object hovering around in the sky - kind of a UFO. It totally spooked me out. I couldn't sleep for days after that.

Lee Brice

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Jennifer Aniston

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

Monica Crowley

It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.

Samuel Johnson

My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o

St. Aurelius Augustine

Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.

Woody Allen

Chastity is curable, if detected early.

Mark Twain

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

Joseph Joubert

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.

Lord Byron

Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

Michel de Montaigne

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Michel de Montaigne

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.