Famous Quotes & Sayings

Art Buchwald

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Don Yaeger

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Adelbert von Chamisso

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

Drew Barrymore

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

David Letterman

There's already been some trouble for Osama bin Laden in the afterlife. There was a mix up and he was greeted by 72 vegans.

David Eagleman

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

David Eagleman

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

Peter Jackson

We've thrown away a golden opportunity. It's bitterly disappointing. Now we have to hope others around us slip up. You can just imagine how the players are feeling. We played well in the first half but we didn't get that second goal.

Bill Cosby

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

Big Sean

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

Antoine Rivarol

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Felix Gottwald

It is a special day for us with our first Olympic gold medal.

Mark Sutton

I think that is why the gold kiwi is very popular in the New Zealand market.

Thomas Fuller

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Bob Hayes

I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.

Ellison Chu

I think gold will be trading around $548 to around $555. It's a short-term range.

Charles Churchill

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

Diane Keaton

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

Dennis Weaver

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

William Shakespeare

Put money in thy purse.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

Benjamin Franklin

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

Benjamin Franklin

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Charles Lamb

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Georgette Heyer

You’ve no more for me than I have for you.” Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!” “You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!