Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.

Randy Adams

I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw flames from the back of my truck,

Benjamin Disraeli

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Robert Lopez

My god, I wanted to go in there and smash that window and try and see if I could pull her out. But the flames were too high. It's gone.

Abdu'l Baha

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

Archibald MacLeish

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Billy Corgan

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

D. James

I don't know my situation right now. I'll find out when I get to Phoenix or when I get back from Phoenix.

Dan Fogelberg

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

Mike Butters

Phoenix is a tough team. It'll be a tough game. They're ranked second in the nation, so we're going to have to work.

Ambrose Bierce

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Ann Coulter

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

Cab Calloway

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Bess Myerson

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Kirk Hammett

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - St. Anger being the fire and Death Magnetic being the phoenix.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

Bill Shankly

First is first,Second is nothing

C. S. Lewis

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Cecil Rhodes

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

Carl Orff

Experience first, then intellectualize.

Antonia Fraser

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!

Bill Vaughan

I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.