Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bible Bible

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Kathryn Tucker

She completely devoured it within a second. ... If she would have been ill for any other medical reason, I don't think she would have been as motivated as she was to eat.

Holly Black

'Twilight' passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare.

Benjamin Franklin

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten thousands are devoured by men

Bible Bible

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

Bible Bible

And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Jay Wright

I was very pleased, very proud. We played every possession. We played at fever pitch and that's what put the game away early.

Hanya Yanagihara

I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

Kendall Kreinhagen

If the Fever want to come play, come on in. They might as well this season.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

Donna King

We have kids with aching, fever and neck swelling. Their physicians say ... they have signs and symptoms of mumps.

Christopher Walken

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

Jane Austen

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

Tim Phillips

What happens is that some of the locals will get into the fever because all the motorcycles are here. Some of the people out of town trade up.

Crystal Robinson

The Fever are a good team. We are a good team. It should be an intense, good playoff series.

Dan Sack

Our press was working in the first half, but we weren't converting. In the second half, we picked up the intensity on our press and it really worked. We just stayed after them.

Tubby Smith

That's been our profile all year long. I just don't get it. We just seem to play with not as much intensity and maturity to start the game.

Al Jones

That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more and not reading as much. Students are getting to the point now that if it's not on the Internet, they don't trust the information.

Rich Rodriguez

I did not think our intensity level was what it should be.

Amani Toomer

If I was a psychologist, I could tell you. We didn't match their intensity ... I just can't understand that.

Ed Rappaport

I think it has probably reached its maximum intensity now.

Tom Massolio

I thought we rebounded really well. We played with intensity -- there was not a big crowd, but we played with intensity.

Joe Girardi

I think you'll see a lot more intensity in this camp.

Leo Mazzone

He's a solid guy, a solid pitcher. Just because he's soft-spoken doesn't mean there's not a lot of intensity there.

Jake Long

I was just tested. Someone was just testing me, and I think I passed all the tests.

Ken Lewis

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Savvas Halikas

I think he was, 'I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this' and he hyperventilated and passed out.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Steve Gunderson

Reclaimed water is not raw sewage, but it's still unauthorized.

O.J. Mayo

That could be right. (Kansas State) could be a possibility. At the same time, we don't want to go to a raw program.

George Ferguson

The approach, in fairness, should be to renegotiate the contract, so that we don't end up with raw sewage from Sumas in the Sumas River again,

George Ferguson

The approach, in fairness, should be to re-negotiate the contract, so that we don't end up with raw sewage from Sumas in the Sumas River again,

Jonas Jennings

He reminded me of myself in college; just raw, raw talent,

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach. He's a raw talent.

Rick Hohenthaner

I always thought she was one of those raw talents that when she would get a stage to be on would shine. ... I know without a doubt, softball's her life.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.

Albert Einstein

Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

Tim Franklin

I welcome the competition. It makes you sharper and better. I don't take any reader for granted.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Tobias Wolff

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.