Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture and exceeding kindness of the Moravian missionaries. Helpfulness was the rule.

Tony McCoy

I was determined my 4,000th winner would be in the green and gold colours of J. P. McManus and trained by Jonjo O'Neill, who have been my greatest supporters.

A. E. Housman

Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the larks so high / About us in the sky.

Nathan Lane

On a personal level, I don't immediately open up to anybody, even about what colours I like, much less something like this. I am my mother, OK?

James Wolfensohn

We regret that there were those whose sole purpose was destruction, which coloured the currents outside these buildings.

Dieter Rams

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Roger Penrose

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

Giles Foden

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

Gemma Arterton

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Torey Lovullo

That was the turning point of that inning and the game. . . . It's a tremendous play by somebody who does dazzling things every single day.

Ron Wilson

I thought he could score 40 this year, and now he's there. He's exceeding all my expectations as far as I'm concerned.

Howard Staunton

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.

Greg Yurek

We're exceeding some of the models from which we worked.

Mark E. Smith

The players are exceeding our expectations. The kids are hustling and not getting down if they make a mistake.

Alan Shepherd

We are exceeding our management levels for these two wild horse populations.

Greek proverb

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small

Timothy Evans

As with most storms, we think the fear factor is exceeding the likely impact on production here.

Nigel Wright

We are very pleased with how Jeff and his team have gotten off to a running start at Spirit. They are meeting or exceeding our expectations on every metric that we had set out.

Don Hamson

The thing is, the market keeps expecting it to set new highs. We have had two or three years of exceeding expectations, so you have to keep exceeding it more each year.

Jonathan Swift

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

Jason Ward

Our numbers are down this year. We used to get around 350 players but this year we only had 96 players that signed up. That's partly because some had to work and also a lot of our youth leave each year. We also lost a lot of our women to Monday night women's hockey.

Ron Redmond

People leave or try to leave regularly in a situation like Iraq's where the security situation is deteriorating and increasingly violent.

Danny Daniels

Some of us come from the streets, some of us ain't had no jobs, ... So, that means some of us hustled. And some of us feel that, 'What are we going to do right now? What should we do from here?' They don't want to turn back to the streets, but when they leave a man without nothing to do, that's his next option.

Richard Branson

Our plans for Virgin are pretty much to leave it as it is.

Michael Jackson

Please, no! You have to give us some privacy. Please, you have to understand his position, he is with his kids... you need to leave us alone.

Sami Hassoun

Please leave him, for the sake of God, for the sake of his mom and dad.

Deron Williams

We needed a win. We're trying to leave this road trip 2-2. We didn't do too well in the state of Florida.

Pat Binns

Well ah, hah, I'll have to leave that to see what really happens,

David Stempler

We need a big shake-up in the way this is done because the skies are getting more crowded.

Thomas a Kempis

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Glenn Close

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness

Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

George Stigler

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Ezra Pound

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.