Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.

Charles Givens

We got to looking around and there were extension cords running all over the business. The main electrical panel was open, didn't have a cover on it in the back room. Water was running down the wall into that electrical box. It was illegal wiring and very unsafe.

Abraham Lincoln

The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land

Ryan Simmons

Because I do so many shows a week my vocal cords are suffering greatly. But I totally prefer being single cast. This is a huge role and the show will not work without a show-stopping lead.

Aleksandar Hemon

When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying.

Douglas Coupland

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.

J. D. Souther

I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote them. I had to go over to Don Gorman, the piano player, and ask what in the world I was playing.

William Shakespeare

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

Michael Brown

There is no question in my mind, that at the highest levels of the White House they understood how grave the situation was.

Edward Abbey

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

Houssaye Houssaye

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

Sir Blair

On Monday, if this (bill) is not passed, these men will be released. I think that would be a grave threat to national security.

Sarah Newton

If this hurricane had not happened we would not have had to spend money to do this work. But now, without their participation, we would be in grave danger.

Alexander Smith

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Walter Bruchholz

Why should I take the recipes to the grave if you can tell somebody that can make a living by it? Just pass it on.

Dave Otto

He'd probably be laughing in his grave about what the kids are doing here.

Carre Otis

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

Carol Mann

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

Carol Shields

A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

Carlos Castaneda

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Carlos Castaneda

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

Carlos Castaneda

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Carol Leifer

If you thought you didn't like some people on land...

C. S. Lewis

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

Abba Eban

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

Charles Dickens

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

Charles Stross

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Charles Spurgeon

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Shia LaBeouf

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Michael Duffy

The poorer performance of the stock market relative to the land market makes it attractive.

Dave Freudenthal

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

Caitlyn Jenner

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

The Talmud

There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.

Sathya Baba

There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

Joan Felt

My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man.

Bill Gates

No one will ever need more then 640K Memory

Manny Lawson

Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life.

Adam Loewen

I don't remember what he said. I've got a short-term memory.

E. Joseph Cossman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Brian Jaffe

We plan 33 percent replacements, and ... there will be some that need memory or BIOS.

Irish Proverb

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Shea Hembrey

Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.

Jan Morris

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Bill Viola

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Katie Featherston

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

Edgar Mitchell

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

Aldous Huxley

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

Debbie Harry

I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

Anthony de Mello

The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is

David Brooks

Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.

Al Sharpton

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

Chester A. Arthur

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Chester A. Arthur

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Mark Cuban

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Mark Cuban

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Thomas Jefferson

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Bainbridge Colby

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

Barbara Ehrenreich

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Brian O'Driscoll

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Doris Lessing

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

Bob Murphy

We didn't know how to train correctly, that's the truth. Today, we do know how. We do a lot of strengthening, a lot of stretching and it helps, even at my age.

Liz Phair

I love stretching myself musically.

Catherynne M. Valente

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.

Vernor Vinge

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.