Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Engle

A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

Mark Caine

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

Earl Wilson

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Reggie Jackson

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Cass McCombs

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Nicholas Kristof

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

James Fallows

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

Peter Fenn

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

William Shockley

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

Mike Krzyzewski

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

Hunter Hayes

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

Suzi Quatro

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Quentin Crisp

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

Curt Siodmak

A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

Murray Walker

A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

Frederick Douglass

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Ferdinand Foch

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Lasse Hallstrom

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Tim Heidecker

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.

Edward Johnson, III

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

Eric Andre

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.

Tom Shales

ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they're not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Ragnar Frisch

A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.

George MacDonald

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Andrew Weil

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

William Cullen Bryant

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.

Louis Nizer

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Jules Renard

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Helena Christensen

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

Irving Penn

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Claude Debussy

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Michelangelo

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Minna Antrim

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Samuel Richardson

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Baltasar Gracian

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Kin Hubbard

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Saint Teresa of Avila

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

Spider Robinson

A beginning is the end of something, always.

Patrice Motsepe

Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.

Armstrong Williams

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

Donny Osmond

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

Vannevar Bush

A belief may be larger than a fact.