Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Flintoff

I was really goosed after that last Test, so a break in France with family and friends has been just what I needed, ... But good as that was, our focus is now on Trent Bridge and the Aussies. After all, we're trying to win the Ashes and that's a massive prize.

B. R. Hayden

I was really disappointed coming off that Ashes series,

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

I think after the Ashes series Australia realized they were starting to relax a bit and they needed to pick their game up a little bit more so they were pretty tough this series,

Frank McCourt

My mother died in New York... she was cremated, and we took her ashes to Ireland one week and scattered the ashes on her family's gravesite." ()

Allama Iqbal

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,His burning candle consumed me - the moth;His wine overwhelmed my goblet,The master of Rum transmuted my earth to goldAnd set my ashes aflame

Allama Iqbal

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment, His burning candle consumed me - the moth; His wine overwhelmed my goblet, The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold And set my ashes aflame

Phil Jaques

I am behind Australia's best opening partnership of all time, so I have to bide my time for opportunities to come up. It would be a dream come true to play a revenge Ashes series this summer.

Mark Forest

I believe that they have called up a couple of, what do they call them? Ashes rejects, or something like that. I actually haven't even looked at the squad.

Peter Young

He (John Howard) follows cricket very closely and did so from New York during the fifth Ashes Test.

Lane Evans

Record high gas prices are burning holes in peoples; pockets and harming our economy. They are squeezing everyone, farmers and truckers, small businesses and families. When oil prices rise, the prices of all goods increase. That's why the Administration has to step up and take action.

Greg Foreman

Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to spend it.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.

John Tierney

Someone needs to rescue France from its self-proclaimed malaise. Close to a quarter of its young people are unemployed, but they're too busy burning cars to look for jobs.

Barry McCaffrey

Other treatments have been deemed safer and more effective than a psychoactive burning carcinogen self-induced through one's throat,

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and west, Expounds the passions burning in his breast. The rising moon o'er that enchanted land Pauses to hear and yearns to understand. --Mowbray Myles

Melissa Doi

Please, God, it's so hot. I'm burning up.

Sydney Smith

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble

Geno Auriemma

(Mel) has an intensity level about her that keeps the fire burning inside, she never lets the fire die. Nicole's the same way. We had two guys guarding that kid that don't get tired. She could have run them off screens all night and those kids aren't going to get tired.

John Scalzi

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

Frank Gorshin

Remember, it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.

Mitch Hedberg

I went to the store to bye a candle holder. They didn't have one so I got a cake.

P. Herbert

It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle

Bible Bible

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked: / For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Angela Brown

If we see a candle that's lit, it will be removed.

Benjamin Franklin

The painful Preacher, like a candle bright, Consumes himself in giving others Light.

King Tuff

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

Jim Carey

If we are not staffed appropriately we will continue to work as hard as we can to meet the responsibilities of the office. We don?t let the candle fall.

James Allen

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.

Alex Rodriguez

That's the only reason I play baseball. It's what I'm consumed to do right now.

Rosecrans Baldwin

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

Paul Jacobs

It is about not giving in to the living death that has consumed the world we live in.

Bible Bible

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Seamus McAteer

Mobile entertainment is, without a doubt, the future of the phone. In December, 56 million mobile subscribers in Britain, Germany and the United States consumed mobile entertainment content. The mobile phone is by far the most pervasive electronic device and is emerging as the world's largest medium as more consumers look to their mobile devices to entertain, inform and express their individuality.

Jennifer Lee

So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

Christine Ebersole

'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

Lamar Alexander

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

Greg Oden

Our relationship is real. It's no fake. He's down to earth, and I'm down to earth. We'd never have a falling out over money.

Rob James-Collier

Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?

Kenny Perry

Somehow, I've got to come back to earth here.

Marcus Aurelius

Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee

Richard Allen

Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

C. S. Lewis

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

Carl Sagan

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

Carl Sagan

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Shaukat Sultan

It is a national tragedy. This is the worst earthquake in recent times.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

Steve Tisch

I think one master serving 32 masters is much easier.

Daniel Woodrell

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

Ben Roethlisberger

It is a growing-up process. I'm a long way from mastering anything.

John Schuerholz

It is somewhat surprising that we've done it with so many young guys, ... It wasn't a part of our master plan.

Steve Tisch

I don't think it's necessary. That's 2 masters serving 32 masters. I think 1 master serving 32 masters is much easier.

Bobby Bowden

When they pick the all-time missed field-goal coach, I'll probably get the award. We're masters at that.

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Zeresenay Alemseged

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Kiki Vandeweghe

That's what I hear. That's sort of the rumor mill.

Barbara Walker

It had been a rumor for a while,

Timothy Griffin

I'm not going to run for Senate and I'm not going to run for Governor. I'd like to put those rumors to rest.

Steve Jobs

There has been a lot of speculation and a lot of rumors and I get to end them today,

Orson Scott Card

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

Christine McVie

We all enjoyed the success of Rumours obviously.

Brooke Shields

Yeah, rumor has it. Again, I was pretty distracted.

William Shakespeare

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...

Robert Esche

I was just trying to spark my team.

John Buskirk

That was really the spark that got us in gear.

Kiki Nesbitt

That was one of the sparks for the show itself.

Heather Smith

That was kind of the spark that got us going.

Harvinder Kalirai

We got the spark from the PPI today,

Alice Munro

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

Cindy Sheehan

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

Arthur Young

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Elie Wiesel

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

C. S. Lewis

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Bernard Berenson

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Arsene Wenger

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

Al Gore

Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.

Charles Babbage

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.